Jessica Mutch, CPA, MBA, is the founder and principal of Gryphon Consulting. She has more than thirty years experience in consulting, finance and operations. She is sought after for interim leadership, financial consulting, and change management projects, including reorganizations and groundbreaking new departments. As a strategic thinker, Jessica’s approach is to find creative, cost-effective, and workable solutions. Her thoughtful, goal-oriented methodology has been invaluable to many organizations.
Jessica has served as a Board Director and on advisory boards, and is actively involved in her community.
Jessica has an MBA with honors from the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she taught accounting to undergraduate and graduate students. She received a Bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from the University of Maine.More...
Frank Elbers
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I am a Bucharest-based freelance journalist and political analyst covering Southeastern Europe, with a special focus on Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova. I am a correspondent for De Groene Amsterdammer, BNR Nieuwsradio, NPO Radio 1 and VRT Radio 1. I am also the editor-curator of the Romanian Dispatch newsletter, editor-in-chief of Donau and regular contributor to Panenka Magazine.
Currently, I am an associated researcher at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB), Social Sciences Division, where I conduct research projects on gender and politics and on civil society organisations in the Black Sea region.
From 2016-2018, I was a correspondent in Beirut and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at Lebanese American University (LAU), where I taught courses on gender and human rights.
A political scientist and journalist by training, I have worked in human rights and transitional justice in post-communist Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa over the past thirty years. I have published on political extremism, migration, gender-based violence, citizenship and human rights.More...