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Darin Spurgeon

Darin Spurgeon ... Deputy Director for Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ... Greater Seattle Area ... Philanthropy

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Darin Spurgeon 1st Darin Spurgeon Deputy Director for Strategy, Planning and Management at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Greater Seattle AreaPhilanthropy Current Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Green Visions Previous Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Virgin Unite, World Food Programme Education INSEAD 449 connectionsSend a messageEndorseMore options Connected 1 year ago RelationshipContact Infofriends Email darin.spurgeon@alumni.insead.edu Linkedin www.linkedin.com/pub/darin-spurgeon/21/32a/bb8 Edit contact info 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 Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationDeputy Director for Strategy, Planning and Management Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation June 2013 – Present (1 year 2 months)Greater Seattle Area Founder Green Visions August 2000 – Present (14 years)Bosnia and Herzegovina Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationProgram Manager Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation December 2012 – June 2013 (7 months)Greater Seattle Area Virgin UniteAmericas Director Virgin Unite January 2006 – November 2012 (6 years 11 months)Greater New York City Area World Food ProgrammeBusiness Analyst World Food Programme January 2005 – December 2005 (1 year)Rome Area, Italy World Food ProgrammeOperations Officer – Iraq Programme World Food Programme April 2004 – January 2005 (10 months)Rome Area, Italy World Food ProgrammeTeam Leader – Iraq Programme World Food Programme August 2003 – April 2004 (9 months)Rome Area, Italy Save the ChildrenCountry Representative – Bosnia Save the Children August 2001 – August 2002 (1 year 1 month)Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Save the ChildrenProject Manager Save the Children January 1999 – August 2001 (2 years 8 months)Bosnia and Herzegovina Save the ChildrenProject 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 & Endorsements 27International... 17Fundraising 9NGOs 7Grants 6Cross-functional Team... Languages English Native or bilingual proficiency Bosnian Full professional proficiency Serbian Full professional proficiency Croatian Full professional proficiency German Elementary proficiency Education INSEAD INSEAD Masters of Business Administration 2002 – 2003 Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Scholar Florida State University Florida State University Bachelor of Arts, History 1992 – 1998 Recommendations Given (2) Peter, would you like to recommend Darin? Recommend Darin Kelly Holmes Kelly Holmes Executive Director Kelly is an amazing person. She is very hard-working, reliable and dedicated. I really enjoyed working with her and would highly recommend her for a wide-range of projects. March 16, 2013, Darin was with another company when working with Kelly at Resource Assistance for Youth Lauren Jenkins Chung 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. 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