Focus: Clean Energy, Biofuels
An accomplished senior executive, a dynamic leader and a proven innovator, teacher and serial entrepreneur, Dr. Kathleen Robbins brings more than twenty five years of successful leadership experience in all aspects of business management, business development, marketing and sales covering consumer products, computer hardware and software, and communications, including cellular and WiFi companies. She has a proven track record of identifying and capitalizing on profitable growth opportunities, expanding existing ones and developing staff.
With an engineering science degree from the United States Air Force Academy, Kathleen returned to graduate school and earned an MBA to round out her education. Upon completing the MBA program, Kathleen joined Procter & Gamble. While working with P&G she identified an unmet business need of P&G and along with a partner, created a company to meet this need. Customers eventually included consumer product companies such as Procter & Gamble, Carnation and G.D. Searle.
Transitioning from consumer products, Kathleen moved into high technology and held successful positions with computer manufacturer Wang Laboratories, consulting with Computer Sciences Corporation and executive leadership with Cellular One. Her career encompasses not only traditional management with extensive financial, operations, sales, marketing and business development expertise but as an entrepreneur and visionary leader able to identify and capitalize on new opportunities.
In 2003, Kathleen resigned from Cellular One upon completing her Doctor of Ministry to create an international organization based on her work in her doctoral dissertation. Her dissertation, The 4th Communications Revolution: Bringing a Voice to the Developing World forms the theoretical basis for this program. It envisions using technology to aid or create micro enterprises in developing countries that provide a sustainable source of income in the rural areas to the entrepreneur while providing cost effective access to modern information communications technology to her neighbors and friends and a profitable customer to the technology provider.
In 2005, Robbins returned from a short time with the Peace Corps in Botswana and has a lead an effort to provide access to information communications technology to people in developing countries living on $2 or less a day and is currently working in Haiti to replicate the hugely successful Grameen Village Phone program.
Kathleen oversees Green Microfinance Clean Energy Programs. She is now working on a biofuels program in Haiti which involves addressing environmental and rural economic issues in addition to energy availability. The program uses a non-edible plant native to Haiti that grows on land that has been deforested and upon which food corps will not grow. It is designed to ensure the small farmer is a major beneficiary in the biofuels revolution.
Throughout her career, Kathleen has demonstrated the ability to work with a wide spectrum of people, providing leadership that brings out the best in them. She brings her unique combination of education, experience and training to solve business challenges in ways that create long-term, sustainable win/win situations.
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