Operations

CARLA LAZARTE

Area: People and Organizational Development

Title: Head

Citizenship: Peruvian

Location: Lima, Peru

Profile Summary: Carla Lazarte is a senior-level manager with more than 20 years of broad–based and progressively responsible experience in management and human resources for international development. She has a proven ability to work with senior management teams to integrate human resources into the overall business operating strategy.

Carla has been a human resources manager at CIP since 2009. Before joining CIP, she worked as an HR Business Partner at the World Bank, in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include collective leadership, employee relations, organizational development, training and development, operations management, international HR and strategic leadership.

Carla has a BA in communication from Marymount University, in Washington, D.C. and an MA in organizational development from Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland. – See more at: https://cipotato.org/about-cip/leadership/executive-committee/#sthash.jipZhUln.dpuf

Languages: Spanish, English

MICHELLE RODRIGO

Area: Project Award and Implementation Office

Title: Head

Citizenship: Peru, the United States of America, and Chile

Location: Lima, Peru

Profile Summary: Michelle is the head of Project Award and Implementation Office at the International Potato Center (CIP) where she is responsible for the Project Award and Implementation Office.

Before taking up this position, Michelle was the head of the Grants and Contracts unit at CIP. Michelle’s latest position sees taking over this new Office which is a merger of the old Grants and Contracts unit with the Project Management Unit.

An experience project and finance manager, Michelle has more than 15 years of experience administering USAID-funded projects working from the headquarters, as well as from the field and on short-term assignments. She also has expertise in financial management, partner management, capacity building and designing and managing grants programs.

Specialties: Contracts and grants management, international development, partner management, capacity building, opening of new offices, financial management, proposals.

Languages: Spanish, English

ALESSANDRA FURTADO

Area: Project Management

Title: Head of Project Management Unit

Citizenship: Brazil

Location Nairobi, Kenya

Profile Summary: Alessandra Furtado is an operations executive with 20 years of financial and project management expertise in International Development and Research in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Alessandra joined The International Potato Center (CIP) in 2017 to oversee and consolidate best practice in project management. Before CIP she served as Assistant Director for Resources and Development at Leonard Cheshire Disability in London and other management positions in the University of Brighton, The Nature Conservancy, the European Commission and USAID. Alessandra holds a Masters with Distinction in International Development Management from the University of Westminster, UK.

Laguages: Portuguese (native), English and Spanish (fluent)

PERCY CABELLO

Area: Information Technology

Title: Head of Information Technology

Citizenship: Peru, USA

Location: Lima, Peru

Profile Summary: Percy Cabello is an information technology executive with more than 20 years of experience in consulting and project management for government, non-profit and Fortune 500 companies, focused on leading teams to leverage information assets and technology to deliver strategy aligned business results.

Percy joined CIP in 2012 as a project manager for the global enterprise resource planning implementation, and later served as Applications and Project Management Office (PMO) Manager.

He holds a MSc in Open Information Systems Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, BSc in Informatics Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PMP certification by the Project Management Institute and served as a Mozilla Project volunteer.

Languages: Spanish, English