Ross Baird Executive Director, Village Capital Expertise:  Ross developed the Village Capital concept in 2009, and has led the development of programs worldwide.  Before launching Village Capital, he worked with First Light Ventures, a seed fund focused on impact investments.  Prior to First Light, Ross worked on the development of four education-related start-up ventures: the Indian School Finance Company in Hyderabad, India; the National College Advising Corps in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and two ventures using technology to promote civic participation.	Simon Desjardins Business Manager - Shell Foundation Office: GSIPM Special Programs Email: simon.desjardins@shell.com Phone: 831.647.4155 Expertise:  Simon is responsible for the Excelerate Programme at the Shell Foundation, which has the goal of helping to provide access to modern energy services for the poor. Before joining the Shell Group in 2006 as a business analyst for Shell Chemicals, Simon worked globally in a broad range of business and development roles, with experience in start-ups, multinationals and NGOs. Simon joined the Foundation in March 2008.
Simon Desjardins Adjunct Professor Office: GSIPM Email: simon.desjardins@shell.com Phone: 831.647.4155 Expertise:  Before joining Shell Foundation in 2008, I have worked globally in a range of business and development roles, with experience in start-ups, multinationals and NGOs.	Miguel Granier Founder and Managing Directer, Invested Development Expertise:  Miguel is the Founder and Managing Director of Invested Development  which launched in July 2009. Before founding Invested Development, he was the founding Investment Manager for First Light Ventures, a seed-stage social impact investment fund affiliated with Gray Ghost Ventures in Atlanta, Georgia.
David Kyle COO, The Calvert Foundation Expertise:  David Kyle was named in December 2011 to the newly-established position of Chief Operating Officer, responsible for loan origination, sales, human resources, systems, and customer service. David comes to Calvert Foundation with a long and well-traveled history of success in helping organizations get to the next stage of growth.	Dr. Yuwei Shi Dean, Graduate School of International Policy and Management Office: McCone 215 Phone: Tel: (831) 647 4155
Yuwei Shi Dean, Graduate School of International Policy and Management Expertise:  Dr. Yuwei Shi is Dean and Professor of Strategic Management His research focuses on competitive strategy, high-tech venture and business model development and evaluation.  He has published over three dozen papers in peer-reviewed journals and a number of books and chapters.  Dr. Shi has taught MBA and doctoral programs in nearly a dozen universities across the globe, in addition to having won the Excellence in Teaching Award at the Monterey Institute in 2008, and the Allen Griffith Teaching Award in 2009.

Previous FMS Trainers Include:

Jason Fairbourne, Fairbourne Consulting

Jason Fairbourne holds MSC in Development Management, London School of Economics and is a graduate from Utah Valley University.

He is a pioneer in the field of micro franchising, the founder of the Fairbourne Consulting Group, and is currently the Peery Fellow at the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management. He is the author of MicroFranchising: Creating Wealth at the Bottom of the Pyramid, as well as many other articles and publications.

Dr. Peter Robertson, Human Insight

Peter is a founding partner of Human Insight Ltd, a thought leader, business ecologist and specialist in leadership issues. He has written widely on this subject and has developed the AEM-cube ACT-cube and RPA set of organizational assessment tools.

Peter has delivered key note speeches on the principles of business ecology around the world as both guest and resident speaker at many academic and management institutions. He is also a high level business consultant who specializes in strategy facilitation and leadership support and development. Assignments range from executive team coaching to board alignment to small- and large-scale strategy and culture development interventions.

Sara Olsen, SVT Founder, CEO
Sara is the co-founder of the Global Social Venture Competition, author with SocialEdge, and a globally recognized public speaker. With SVT she has designed systems that today reveal the impact of over $9Bn in over 23 countries. These systems recognize the cross cutting relationships between impact and financial performance in industries including clean technology, housing, public health, the arts, agriculture, social media, and finance.

Sara attended Dartmouth College for her undergraduate work and received an MBA and MSW degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Sara considers her most valuable education, however, to come from teaching public high school in Mississippi and helping start a social enterprise at Shorebank Corporation in inner-city Chicago.

Academic Field Course

The academic field course is generally only taken by FMScouts also enrolled in a Monterey Institute graduate degree program and includes the following two project options surrounding the question, "What are the factors that lead to a sucessful venture?":

Entrepreneuer Life Stories Data Collection and Analysis

• Fredric Kropp, Professor and Program Chair - Fisher International MBA Program

Develop and Implement Case Study Framework for Business Model Design and Change Process

• Yuwei Shi, Dean - Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey Institute

Self-directed Academic Research Project

• Monterey Institute Faculty
  

Scouts can serve partners in nearly 20 countries. Learn more about FMS field assignments.

Sample course descriptions

Meet FM Scout,Yi-Ching Hwang, in India