Darin Spurgeon
Program Manager at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Greater New York City AreaNonprofit Organization Management
Current
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Green Visions
Previous
Virgin Unite, World Food Programme, Save the Children
Education
INSEAD
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connections
www.linkedin.com/pub/darin-spurgeon/21/32a/bb8
BACKGROUND
SUMMARY
Experienced international development professional with strong background in new initiative development, strategy design, business planning, supervision and management, finance, logistics, stakeholder outreach, donor relations, fundraising, partner identification and vetting, grant-making, impact evaluation and reporting, and social enterprise; in-country experience in Bosnia, Canada, Croatia, Italy, Jordan, Montenegro, Serbia, South Africa, UK and US; and experience in multilateral, NGO, and corporate settings.
EXPERIENCE
Program Manager
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
December 2012 – Present (4 months)Greater Seattle Area
Founder
Green Visions
August 2000 – Present (12 years 8 months)Bosnia and Herzegovina
Americas Director
Virgin Unite
January 2006 – November 2012 (6 years 11 months)Greater New York City Area
Business Analyst
World Food Programme
January 2005 – December 2005 (1 year)Rome Area, Italy
Operations Officer – Iraq Programme
World Food Programme
April 2004 – January 2005 (10 months)Rome Area, Italy
Re-negotiation Manager/Team Leader – Iraq Programme
World Food Programme
August 2003 – April 2004 (9 months)Rome Area, Italy
Country Representative – Bosnia
Save the Children
August 2001 – August 2002 (1 year 1 month)Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Project Manager
Save the Children
January 1999 – August 2001 (2 years 8 months)Bosnia and Herzegovina
Project Support Officer
Save the Children
August 1998 – January 1999 (6 months)Bosnia and Herzegovina
Founder and President
American branch of Austrian NGO
June 1996 – July 1997 (1 year 2 months)Tallahassee, Florida Area
Emergency Aid Officer
Austrian NGO
July 1994 – June 1995 (1 year)Bosnia and Herzegovina
SKILLS & EXPERTISE
- 8International...
- 3Fundraising
- 2NGOs
- 1Cross-functional Team...
- Grants
LANGUAGES
English
Native or bilingual proficiency
Bosnian
Full professional proficiency
Serbian
Full professional proficiency
Croatian
Full professional proficiency
German
Elementary proficiency
EDUCATION
INSEAD
Masters of Business Administration
2002 – 2003
Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Scholar
Florida State University
Bachelor of Arts, History
1992 – 1998
RECOMMENDATIONS Given (1)
Lauren Jenkins Chung
Strategy Development Management Consultant/Intern
Lauren is an incredibly diligent and hard-working person. She is also a pleasure to work with. She has an amazing attitude and her work is consistently of a very high quality.
March 17, 2012, Darin managed Lauren at Virgin
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