TPI operates out of a central hub based in the UK with projects also being delivered with our highly experienced Associates around the world. Together, the central hub and Associates comprise the TPI network, which operates on a dynamic collaborative relationship, with vibrant pathways for knowledge, skill and thought exchange across sectors on a global scale. This unique interactive pool of knowledge ensures that staff and Associates are always at the cutting edge of partnering theory and practice.
TPI staff and Associates have a depth of knowledge and experience in partnerships and cross sector collaboration which informs our ability to anticipate global partnering trends, and creates a proactive and forward looking network. All of our associates are fully trained in TPI methods, and are in most cases professionally accredited Partnership Brokers.
For more information on each of our members of Staff and Associates, please see their profiles.
The TPI Core Team
Darian Stibbe, Executive Director
Driven by a passionate belief in the power of collaboration to achieve prosperous, inclusive and sustainable business and society, Darian has for the last 16 years worked extensively with companies, the United Nations, NGOs, and governments with one ...
Ruth Findlay, Director of Research and Learning
Ruth is Director of Research and Learning with The Partnering Initiative, where she has worked for the past five years. She develops and runs partnering programmes for a range of clients including UN agencies and INGOs, as well as carrying out partnership...
Dave Prescott, Creative Director
Dave Prescott has over fifteen years’ experience in cross-sector partnership and sustainability, with a particular focus on communications and project management.
Dave supports strategic communications at TPI. He was the lead writer for ‘Unleashing the...
Julia Gilbert, Communications and Programme Manager
Julia Gilbert is a development professional with a background predominantly in communication, coordination, and information management. Holding degrees in Classics and Creative Writing from the University of Paris (Sorbonne) and the University of East ...
Senior Advisors
Jenny Ekelund, Senior Advisor
Jenny is a sustainability and partnerships practitioner with 12 years experience in collaborative working across the private, NGO and education sectors.
Founder of specialist innovation and sustainability consultancy Oak Grove Associates, she has...
Katie Fry Hester, Senior Advisor
Katie Fry Hester is the Americas Regional Director for TPI. She leads Business Partnership Action (BPA) which supports the creation of locally-owned and run country-level platforms or Hubs that systematically bring together government, business, donors, ...
Thom Sprenger, Senior Advisor
Thom is a senior-level professional with 25+ years' significant worldwide experience in setting up, managing and evaluating global programs and multi-stakeholder initiatives with a high degree of strategic and structural complexity.
Thom has gained...
Todd Kirkbride, Senior Advisor
Todd is a private sector development specialist with 18 years of experience including working with international donors, NGO’s, multinational corporations and entrepreneurial start-up ventures. He has experience serving a broad range of clients to he...
TPI Associates
Aitor Llodio, Associate
Aitor is a Basque partnership enthusiast who, after working for 5 years in the UK where he was the Wandle Trail Partnership Chair, moved to Central America and established ALIARSE , an organization which promotes public private partnerships for development...
Alison Gold, Associate
Alison Gold is passionate about sharing her unique combination of skills and experiences as an anthropologist, cross-sector changemaker, culture-builder, strategist, experience designer, and facilitator with individuals, organizations, and collaborations. ...
Anne Marie van Bolhuis, Associate
Anne Marie is an international consultant with 30 years of experience in diplomacy and international development. She has an extensive track record in dealing with multi-dimensional complexities that require innovative solutions, ranging from negotiating...
Calliope Webber, Associate
Calliope has joined The Partnering Initiative as an associate to help with delivering programmes and developing extractive industries best practice for cross-sector partnerships. She has over 15 years experience in delivering practical and partnering...
David Murphy, Associate
David's international consultancy experience includes training, research and capacity building projects with various UN agencies, NGOs, universities and companies. Recent projects include: strategic advice to UNAIDS and UNESCO on the development of tailored...
Fernando Casado, Associate
Fernando Casado Cañeque is a Doctor of Economics and journalist on themes relating to international development. He has worked as advisor to a variety of different organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations ...
Herbert Smorenburg, Associate
Herbert is a dynamic and successful leader with proven track record in building bridges between private and public organisations. He has extensive experience in the food and nutrition sector in developing and developed markets varying from product development,...
Ian Dixon, Associate
As well as being an associate of TPI, Ian is the Founder and Principal of DIXON Partnering Solutions (DPS), an organisation specializing in creating, developing and sustaining effective cross sector partnerships.
Some of Ian’s recent work includes su...
Jenny Costelloe, Associate
Jenny Costelloe is the founder of Collective17 . She founded the organisation to combine her skills in sustainability and partnerships for development, along with her extensive network in South-East Asia and her ability to build collaborations. Jenny h...
Jessica Scholl, Associate
Jessica joined IBLF after obtaining her MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics. Prior to pursuing her Master’s degree, she worked for several years in both international and domestic (US) non-profit organisations in Argentina, C...
Jo Wackrill, Associate
Jo has a long-standing commitment to promoting globally responsible business leadership for sustainable development. As a TPI Associate she contributed to TPI’s Platforms for Partnership action research programme on emerging good practice in multi-stakeholder p...
Jo Zaremba, Associate
Jo Zaremba is a consultant combining technical expertise, critical and systems thinking with collaborative and participatory approaches in complex humanitarian, development and environmental contexts. Jo has held a range of technical, advisory and managerial ...
Joanna Pyres, Associate
In 2002, after 3 years working in the private sector in a marketing, sponsorship and event management capacity, Joanna moved to work for a Corporate Social Responsibility NGO to support and facilitate Corporate-NGO partnerships. Her work involved working...
Kathleen Wood, Associate
Kathleen has worked with business and non-profits internationally for over 20 years with a view toward answering a basic question- “how do we become increasingly able individuals, in a way that deeply influences others and transforms the systems in w...
Krista Kruft, Associate
An Accredited Partnership Broker and certified and experienced trainer, Krista has over a decade of work experience in program management and leadership positions in international work environments and as internal coordinating consultant. She has extensive...
Linda Nemec, Associate
Having worked in the public, private and non-profit sectors, Linda has been an early advocate of partnerships to solve development issues. Known as a creative problem-solver, she uses those skills to facilitate discussions among potential partners to...
Liv Raphael, Associate
Liv comes from the FMCG/ Food and Beverage sector, where she worked largely in product/brand innovation within the health/nutrition space. This led her to appreciate the potential of cross sector partnerships, and the private sector’s vital role i...
Louise Kjaer, Associate
Louise is a senior expert and advisor in strategic and innovative development, as well as a pioneer in the theory and practice of cross-sector collaboration. Since 2014 she is founder and CEO of the DK-based Kjaer Advice (www.kjaeradvice.com ) providing ...
Marc-Olivier Roux, Associate
Based in Southeast Asia, Marc Olivier is a global partnerships, entrepreneurship and innovation advisor engaging international organisations, corporations, start-ups and investors into cross-sectors collaborations to develop innovative solutions tha...
Michael Collins, Associate
Michael facilitates the combination of multi-stakeholder shared interests to overcome hurdles to change, engagement and achieving economies of scale to a range of clients including Social Ventures, Value & Supply Chain Projects and SMME businesses...
Nazneen Huq, Associate
Nazneen C. Huq began her career as a curriculum designer and trainer with a Dutch Engineering firm. She has since developed experience in program development, management, human resources development and training and research.
She is trained and experienced...
Niall Marriott, Associate
Niall has spent the last 20 years providing consultancy services to government agencies, non-governmental organisations and companies on strategy development and implementation. A particular theme has been stakeholder engagement and cross-sector partnership,...
Nicolas Luff, Associate
Nicholas Luff is an accomplished sustainable development and social responsibility specialist with over 15 years experience in business, government and civil society. Nicholas supports organizations in advancing their social, environmental and economic p...
Nyananso Gabriel Ekanem, Associate
Nyananso has spent most of the 14 years of his professional career working in partnerships, and his experience in partnership implementation cuts across the Private, Public, and Development sectors. His first stint in a partnership was in 2005, as...
Sue Alder, Associate
Sue specialises in preparing individuals, teams and organisations for partnership and all types of collaborative working. She works through the stages of partnership development from “good idea” to solid, working sustainable partnerships.
As wel...
Tara Shyam, Associate
Tara Shyam is a cross-sector partnerships and programme management specialist in international development, focusing on food systems, across agriculture and public health nutrition. Her clients include the UN World Food Programme (WFP), for whom she is...
Tim Bishop, Associate
Tim joined CARE International UK in London in September 2006 to set up their Private Sector Engagement team, a cross-functional unit which went on to establish a range of global private sector partnerships and sustainable development initiatives for CARE....
Tom Harrison, Associate
Tom has 23-years experience in the NGO and development finance sectors. An accredited partnership broker, Tom’s main interest is the contribution that partnerships between the private sector, government and NGOs can make to addressing poverty and d...
Veronica Scheubel, Associate
Veronica combines her knowledge and experience of cross-sector partnering with her background in change consulting and coaching. Her driver is her passion for supporting people in improving the quality of their collaboration. She has been connected to...