<p><strong>Catapult Team</strong></p>
<p><strong>Maz Kessler</strong><br />
	<em>Catapult Founder, Creative Director</em></p>
<p>Maz designed and developed Catapult as a way to help address the huge global problem of gender inequality.</p>
<p>Maz began as a musician, songwriter and synthesist in New York’s downtown music scene at the center of the digital music revolution. In the ’90s, she joined Microsoft’s Social Interface Group, going on to co-found FunArts Software in San Francisco. FunArts helped pioneer socially intelligent and voice user interfaces, and clients included Microsoft, General Magic, Schwab, Bandai Entertainment, and BMW. In 2002 Maz helped to found Keep a Child Alive, an HIV/AIDS foundation focusing on families and children, then joined Advocacy International as Creative Director. At Advocacy International, Maz worked with Ann Pettifor to design and develop a multidisciplinary DfID program focused on increasing maternal and newborn survival across six countries. Maz has also consulted with Women Deliver, ICEC, AIDS-Free World, Options and DfID.</p>
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<p><strong>Jill Sheffield</strong><br />
	<em>President, Women Deliver</em></p>
<p>Jill Sheffield is the founder of Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization working to generate political commitment and financial investment for fulfilling Millennium Development Goal 5 – to reduce maternal mortality and achieve universal access to reproductive health. Most recently, Jill was one of few civil society representatives to serve as a Commissioner to support the efforts of the UN Secretary General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health. Jill is also the founder of Family Care International (FCI), a distinguished non-governmental organization and winner of the 2008 United Nations Population Award for outstanding work in sexual and reproductive health and rights. Jill completed advanced degrees at Columbia University, Teachers College, where she was later recognized as a distinguished alumna for her international work in women’s health and education, and she also received the American Public Health Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. She was Director of International Programmes at the Carnegie Corporation, and founded FCI in 1987 in response to the call at the Women’s Decade Conference in Nairobi which identified the silent tragedy that one woman dies each minute from pregnancy related causes. Though she has played a central role in several key world conferences, Jill Sheffield believes her true education came when she worked in the family planning/reproductive health outpatient clinic of Pumwani Maternity Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.</p>
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<p><strong>Louise Dunn</strong><br />
	<em>Vice President of Operations, Women Deliver</em></p>
<p>Louise Dunn is in charge of operations – budgets, human resources, grant administration – and works with the President and Senior staff in development. Prior to Women Deliver, Louise consulted for Family Care International. She was formerly Vice President of Operations for the Foundation for Accountability in Portland, Oregon. Louise also worked at Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Portland as a grant writer, and as director of a statewide caregiver program for Alzheimer’s families. She began her career in a Planned Parenthood affiliate serving as its Executive Director. She has her Masters in Public Administration from the University of Southern California.</p>
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<p><strong>Robby Kilgore</strong><br />
	<em>Chief Technology Officer</em></p>
<p>Prior to joining Catapult in September of 2012, Robby spent the better part of the last decade as Creative Director of Mobile and Consumer Services at Nuance. In that capacity, he led a series of large-scale solutions teams designing and implementing dozens of now familiar products we all use on a daily basis. From Delta to Dell, Ford to Intel, Robby brings his unique blend of consumer-centric design and deep technical know-how to the Catapult team and our mission to build-out a lasting infrastructure for social giving.</p>
<p>During his misspent youth, Robby was a prominent “session player” performing live and on <a href="http://flavors.me/robbykilgore#dff/feed" target="_blank">numerous records</a> with such household names as Steve Winwood, Mick Jagger, James Taylor, Eric Clapton and Cyndi Lauper. He is also a Grammy Award winning composer and producer with several film and television scores to his credit.</p>
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<p><strong>Rati Bishnoi</strong><br />
	<em>Program Manager</em></p>
<p>Rati’s one of our partner gurus. She works with partnering organizations using Catapult to launch projects, making sure the platform represents the spectrum of work going on globally to end gender inequality.</p>
<p>Rati brings more than six years of editorial and project management experience to Catapult. In addition to a master’s in public policy and administration from New York University, she’s earned her chops in Washington, D.C., as a health care policy editor and a defense reporter. She also served as a board member of Asha for Women, a non-profit serving South Asian American survivors of domestic violence. Rati joined Women Deliver in 2011, and transitioned to Catapult as one of the founding staff members in 2012.</p>
<p>When Rati’s not working with partners, she’s traveling, taking photos and spending time with people who make her laugh.</p>
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<p><strong>Lindsey Taylor Wood</strong><br />
	<em>Communications Specialist and Advocate</em></p>
<p>Lindsey’s the voice of Catapult to the outside world, leading our marketing, communications and outreach initiatives. She comes to us from Women Deliver, where she mobilized support for the girls and women’s sector. Before that, she headed up public relations for The Lunchbox Fund.</p>
<p>Lindsey has a knack for collaboration: she’s worked with the Broadcasting Board of Governors to explain U.S. policy to Voice of America’s worldwide audience through broadcast television, radio and online; she reported and produced stories on post-Hurricane Katrina for the TODAY show, and she’s contributed&nbsp; to a variety of campaigns centered on conflicts in Central Africa, including <em>The Enough Moment</em>, a book by John Prendergast and Don Cheadle.</p>
<p>Lindsey’s a fierce advocate for using media to galvanize social change. In 2011, she was named one of the 20 Young Champions for Women by The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood. She also loves tomatoes.</p>
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<p><strong>Sue Lee</strong><br />
	<em>Program Manager and Designer</em></p>
<p>Sue helps us find amazing organizations and projects to launch on Catapult.</p>
<p>Sue grew up in L.A., got her Graphic Communications degree at New York University, then joined MTV International. There, she managed small grants for young people working in HIV/AIDS through MTV’s Staying Alive Foundation.</p>
<p>In 2007, Sue moved to Taiwan to study Chinese and teach English for two years. She came back to New York to work for the Maternal Health Task Force. She worked on design, managed the Young Champions of Maternal Health program, and handled all their online communications.</p>
<p>Sue loves to travel. Her goal is to get all seven continents on her passport before it expires in 2014; Antarctica is the only one left on her list. French fries are her weakness.</p>
