Daniel Vaverka

In between his bachelor studies at the Warwick School of Business in the UK and future MBA studies Daniel joined us to work with research oriented projects as well as developing our household model for waste collection. 

Odille Troiano

With three years of marketing and communications experience in Belgium, Odile joined Waste Ventures as a fellow to develop our new franchaise and household oriented model. With her help we developed an initial positioning and strategy for working directly with households, as well as 

Mirta Surlina

Mirta joined us during the fall break of her studies of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Vienna to help develop and standardize our administrative and back office routines. Additionally she ran a research project on composting providing us with valuable insights into the possibilities of improved quality compost in the Indian market. 

Robert LeBlanc

Rob did his summer internship during his MBA studies at Harvard Business School with us during June to August 2011 primarily responsible for building out our financial models and investment infrastructure. Bringing several years of experience from private equity he helped us explore in detail the economics of our model as well as finding ways of structuring our work with investors and waste picker corporations. To learn more about Rob and his fellowship, you can read a personal introduction from Rob here as well as his in-depth analysis of the commercial viability of our model.

Silpa Kaza

Silpa, a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School, supported us between June and July 2011 with the baseline studies of our then new project in Osmanabad. She helped us gather the data as well as look at ways in which we could enable the waste picker coporations to work more effectively through presentations, graphics and customer satisfaction surveys. Having previous experience with a Waste Picker co-operative in Bhuj, Gujarat, she also did due diligence for new partner organizations in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat. Read her personal introduction on our blog as well as follow her action packed adventures on field visits with our technical lead Sanjay.

Rachana Patel

Rachana, a dual MS/MBA graduate student at Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, brought her experience in strategies for waste minimization gathered as part of her studies and while working with TerraCycle in the US to our work in India. She developed alternative models for our work, looking at the key set of assumptions on how our operations were being structured and finding new alternative ways of structuring it.  Read her personal introduction, as well as reflections on her work on our blog.

John Engler

John, who had just finished his MBA from Duke University, did the initial field research for our potential expansion into Latin America. Working on the ground in Colombia, he visited waste picker co-operatives, researched potential partners as well as the external environment and potential for Waste Ventures intervention there. Read more about John on his introduction as well as catch a glimpse of his unique fellowship and the system of waste picking in Colombia here and here. 

Linus Kendall

Linus joined us in August 2010 as an AIESEC-Artemisia Fellow. With a background as an entrepreneur and non-profit leader he helped set up operations for Waste Ventures in India as well as execute our initial project in Bokaro. After his fellowship he went on to take up a permanent position with Waste Ventures, read more about Linus on our Team page.

Chris Byrnes

Chris, a Harvard Business School MBA student, joined us to work with Waste Concern in Dhaka, Bangladesh, researching and collecting the basic data for the composting and carbon credit value-chain for Waste Ventures. Chris applied his experience working as a Consultant at Bain to help us distill the 10 years of experience Waste Concern had into an adaptable blueprint which we have continued to build upon. Since his internship with us, Waste Concern have continued to serve as a technical partner as we have developed our model in India. Chris graduated from HBS in 2010, spent a summer consulting for Boston Public Schools and a local charter school start-up, and is now back at Bain as a Case Team Leader. Read about Chris' analysis of the most important lessons he captured from his field work with Waste Concern on our blog.

Steven Song

Steven, undergraduate from NYU Stern, gave key operational support in the start-up, registration and administration of Waste Ventures as we were setting up the businesses.