Team
We're growing.
If you would like to contribute to our mission to help vulnerable communities address the impact of climate change as a senior advisor or with our advisory/mentorship program, please reach out to Hank Cauley on LinkedIn.
Melissa Dann
Board Member

Jeff Rose
Board Member
Jeff has four decades of senior and executive experience in bank management providing team leadership for the development of various credit approval and risk management models. He is grounded in middle market commercial finance, regulatory compliance and risk management. He has provided leadership for non-profits serving animal welfare, homelessness and higher education. Former National Bank Examiner. Graduate of Rice University and former Board of Trustee Member.
Kate Thompson
Founder Advisor
Kate is a transformational leader, an international development expert, a former management consultant, and a thought-leader on business strategies that deliver triple bottom line results — such that businesses are more profitable, governments are more effective, and civil society organizations are able to scale services more efficiently.

Leavy Matthews
Board Member
Leavy has a science background and is a highly skilled attorney with 20+ years of experience that includes expertise with commercial law and complex litigation. A proud graduate of Howard University Law School, he has adopted the school’s mantra that a lawyer is a “social engineer” who uses their training to promote social justice and equality worldwide.

Lisa Thomas
Board Member
Lisa has over 25 years of project and operations management experience working in corporate America. She is passionate about eradicating adverse issues affecting the African American community.
Debbie Cohen
Board Member
Debbie has over 35 years of broad experience in finance, management, marketing, communications, and personnel at for-profit and nonprofit organizations and as an independent consultant and a real estate agent. Her current and past Board and other volunteer positions are consistent with her interests in environmental and social issues.
Hank Cauley
Co-Founder and Interim CEO
Hank has a mix of corporate, academic, and NGO experiences over his 35-year career. He has started or turned around seven organizations and major projects. Typically, he has worked to find common ground on social, environmental, and business issues. He thrives in situations requiring urgent and thoughtful action that create results.
Frank Hicks
Co-Founder and Managing Director - Finance and Innovation
Frank has over 30 years of broad expertise in international development as a senior manager, board member, and consultant with leading NGOs, foundations, and impact investing funds. He is based in Costa Rica, formerly in West Africa, Asia, and the US.
Steven Nitah
Senior Advisor - Indigenous Relations
Steven is a specialist in Aboriginal and Treaty Constitutional Rights, Negotiations, and Relationship Building with indigenous peoples.
Ganesan ‘Bala’ Balachander
Senior Advisor
Bala has over three decades of experience at the global, regional and national levels in corporate banking, international development, applied ecological research and social enterprises. He brings an interdisciplinary perspectives to addressing challenges at the intersection of ecology, economy and equity. He has lived and worked in Europe, US, Asia-Pacific and India, where he is currently based.

Lisa Cloete
Creative Director
As the Creative Advisor and Lead Storyteller, Lisa comes to N4J passionate about restoring and protecting our natural world and with a wide range of experience in the creative world of storytelling. She has worked in the art industry, publishing, education and literary fields. She has also worked in Communications for an ocean-based NGO and run’s her own small social media campaign for beach clean ups in her city in South Africa.

Luis Miguel Ormeno
Senior Advisor
Finance Systems Advisor
Edith has 24 years of non-profit financial and operations management experience. Her specialty is in management of financial systems and in creating business processes that fit to purpose.
Missy Rosen
Chief People Advisor

Barlin Hassan Ali
Impact Advisor

Impact Advisor
Mohamed is a civil and environmental engineer with 30 years of professional experience in energy conservation, environmental impact assessment, management, and sustainability. He has managed multimillion-dollar projects, and directed and supervised multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, analysts, and senior project managers that provided supervisory, technical support, policy and regulatory analysis to various US Government agencies, private industries, and international organizations.
Philanthropy Advisor
Flynn Bucy
Managing Director, Advisory Services
Dr. Bucy is an accomplished senior consultant in the areas of personal and organizational change, global sustainable development and social venture entrepreneurship. Dr. Bucy has a unique combination of academic, business and non-profit experience to integrate research and practice in pragmatic capacity development programs for individuals, teams and organizations.
Elizabeth Delaney Moore
Communications Advisor
Gina Brogi
Strategy Advisor
Lynne Manrique
Strategy Advisor
Doug Seip
Policy Specialist
Doug is a conservation and sustainability practitioner who focuses on using responsible economic solutions to protect global environments in the face of climate change.
Sunny Bain
Professional Virtual Assistant
Sunny has more than 28 years working as an Executive Assistant and 21 working as a Professional Virtual Assistant in her own business supporting her clients virtually. Typically, she works with entrepreneurs and small business owners handling among many things’ office administration.

Hank Cauley
Co-Founder, Interim CEO
Hank has a mix of corporate, academic, and NGO experiences over his 35-year career. He has started or turned around seven organizations and major projects. Typically, he has worked to find common ground on social, environmental, and business issues. He thrives in an environment requiring urgent and thoughtful action that creates results.
Frank Hicks
Co-Founder, Principal
Frank has over 30 years of broad expertise in international development as a senior manager, board member, and consultant with leading NGOs, foundations, and impact investing funds. He is based in Costa Rica, formerly in West Africa, Asia, and the US.
Melissa Dann
Board Member

Jeff Rose
Board Member
Jeff has four decades of senior and executive experience in bank management providing team leadership for the development of various credit approval and risk management models. He is grounded in middle market commercial finance, regulatory compliance and risk management. He has provided leadership for non-profits serving animal welfare, homelessness and higher education. Former National Bank Examiner. Graduate of Rice University and former Board of Trustee Member.
Kate Thompson
Board Member
Kate is a transformational leader, an international development expert, a former management consultant, and a thought-leader on business strategies that deliver triple bottom line results — such that businesses are more profitable, governments are more effective, and civil society organizations are able to scale services more efficiently.

Leavy Matthews
Board Member
Debbie Cohen
Board Member

Lisa Thomas
Board Member
Lisa has over 25 years of project and operations management experience working in corporate America. She is passionate about eradicating adverse issues affecting the African American community.
Hank Cauley
Co-Founder and Interim CEO
Frank Hicks
Co-Founder and Managing Director - Finance and Innovation
Frank has over 30 years of broad expertise in international development as a senior manager, board member, and consultant with leading NGOs, foundations, and impact investing funds. He is based in Costa Rica, formerly in West Africa, Asia, and the US.
Steven Nitah
Managing Director - Indigenous Relations
Steven is a specialist in Aboriginal and Treaty Constitutional Rights, Negotiations, and Relationship Building with indigenous peoples.
Ganesan ‘Bala’ Balachander
Senior Advisor
Bala has over three decades of experience at the global, regional and national levels in corporate banking, international development, applied ecological research and social enterprises. He brings an interdisciplinary perspective to addressing challenges at the intersection of ecology, economy and equity. He has lived and worked in Europe, US, Asia-Pacific and India, where he is currently based.

Lisa Cloete
Creative Director
As the Creative Advisor and Lead Storyteller, Lisa comes to N4J passionate about restoring and protecting our natural world and with a wide range of experience in the creative world of storytelling. She has worked in the art industry, publishing, education and literary fields. She has also worked in Communications for an ocean-based NGO and run’s her own small social media campaign for beach clean ups in her city in South Africa.

Luis Miguel Ormeno
Senior Advisor
Edith Mebiama
Finance Systems Advisor
Edith has 24 years of non-profit financial and operations management experience. Her specialty is in management of financial systems and in creating business processes that fit to purpose.
Missy Rosen
Chief People Advisor
Results driven HR professional in leading tactical and strategic consulting to create organizational development strategies to support key business objectives. Background includes leadership and development of globally positioned teams.

Barlin Hassan Ali
Impact Advisor
Barlin has more than two decades of experience in dealing with international development and global international disaster response. In 2018, she received the Humanitarian Ambassador for International Women Achievers Award.

Mohamed Hassan Nur
Impact Advisor
Mohamed is a civil and environmental engineer with 30 years of professional experience in energy conservation, environmental impact assessment, management, and sustainability. He has managed multimillion-dollar projects for various US Government agencies, private industries, and international organizations.
Isabelle Blanco
Philanthropy Advisor
Flynn Bucy
Managing Director, Advisory Services
Dr. Bucy is an accomplished senior consultant in the areas of personal and organizational change, global sustainable development and social venture entrepreneurship. Dr. Bucy has a unique combination of academic, business and non-profit experience to integrate research and practice in pragmatic capacity development programs for individuals, teams and organizations.
Gina Brogi
Strategy Advisor
Lynne Manrique
Strategy Advisor
Elizabeth Delaney Moore
Communications Advisor
Elizabeth comes to N4J after years crafting positioning strategies in pre-IPO companies. For equally many years, she’s dedicated herself to grassroots environmental and social justice issues. She spends much of her free time translating court documents for and serving as a mentor to asylum seekers, many of whom have fled situations caused in part by climate change.

Doug Seip
Policy Specialist
Doug is a conservation and sustainability practitioner who focuses on using responsible economic solutions to protect global environments in the face of climate change.
Sunny Bain
Professional Virtual Assistant
Sunny has more than 28 years working as an Executive Assistant and 21 working as a Professional Virtual Assistant in her own business supporting her clients virtually. Typically, she works with entrepreneurs and small business owners handling, among many things, office administration.