Khulisa Management Services

Ms. Weber has been a Consultant to KMS Global (Khulisa Management Services) since 2009. She has extensive experience in a broad range of international development areas, most recently in the creation of public-private partnerships. She is an expert in strategic planning and performance monitoring. Ms. Weber had a long career with USAID, including Mission and Deputy Mission Director positions, and continues to consult for USAID, the U.S. Department of State and other firms and NGOs in areas such as strategic planning and project management and implementation, as well as emergency disaster assistance. Ms. Weber has worked with the Department of State on Climate Change and other technology transfer issues. She holds a B.A. in International Affairs from The George Washington University, an M.A. in International Relations from Syracuse University's Maxwell School and a Masters in City Planning for Developing Countries from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). She was also a Visiting Fellow at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.

Ms. Wyatt is a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) expert who works primarily on private sector, economic development and education initiatives. She is currently a Senior Associate at Khulisa providing expertise and support to a variety of development projects and leading the business development division. She is currently mentoring Khulisa's full time M&E Specialist at the USAID-funded Financial Sector Program, an initiative aimed to increase access to finance for SMEs in South Africa. Other Khulisa assignments include designing monitoring tools for the South African Department of Education as well as performing Data Quality Audits. Prior to joining Khulisa, she worked for Enablis Entrepreneurial Network, an NGO that supports entrepreneurs and small business owners in South Africa and East Africa. She was responsible for programme monitoring and strategic planning as well as setting up the M&E logical framework and relevant tools for the launch of the East Africa chapter. Ms. Wyatt holds an MA in Rural Development from the University of Sussex (UK), a B.A. in Economics, and a B. Physical and Health Education from Queen’s University (Canada).

Mr. Sloan joined Khulisa as a member of the junior technical staff in 2010. He completed his degree in statistics with distinction at the University of the Witwatersrand and is preparing to enrol for a Masters in 2011. His research interests include data mining, implementing systems theory and optimising data processes. Mr. Sloan’s primary focus at Khulisa is data management and analysis work for the Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) project which utilises his background in statistics and mathematics. His previous research revolved around the prediction of stock market indices and their movements.