Board Directors
Mercy Corps is a global team of humanitarians, working together on the front lines of today’s biggest crises to create a future of possibility, where everyone can prosper. Operating across East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa, Northern America, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa; our nearly 6,000 team members work side by side with people living through poverty, disaster, violent conflict and the acute impacts of climate change.
Mercy Corps partnered with Prospectus to find Board Directors who shared the motivation and values of Mercy Corps, making a strategic contribution as a learning partner to their board. Mercy Corps were interested in candidates who were connected to the regions where they operate.
Prospectus were delighted to support the appointment of two new Board Directors, focused on guiding major strategic decisions and policies, while ensuring accountability and proper management;
Thierry Tanoh has more than 32 years of financial investment, banking, and senior government experience worldwide. He is an independent board member for various companies and institutions, including the Azalai Hotel Group, the largest African-owned hotel chain in West Africa; a member of the Africa Advisory Council of the Groupe Duval, a French construction and micro-finance group; and Co-Chair of the Advisory Council of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Previously, Thierry was the CEO of Pan-African Bank, Ecobank Group, and spent 18 years at the International Finance Corporation. He was recently appointed to the President’s Council on International Affairs at Yale University. Thierry graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce d’Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Stanley Wanyoike Njoroge is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia P.LC, the first privately owned operator to provide telecommunications and digital financial services in Ethiopia. Prior to Safaricom, Stanley spent 13 years in various senior finance roles with Diageo, in Kenya, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Nigeria, and worked at then Barclays Bank Kenya (now Absa Kenya). He started his finance career at Deloitte & Touche in Kenya and Uganda in tax consultancy. Stanley is a Bachelor of Pharmacy graduate of University of Nairobi and a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya.
Thierry and Stanley bring significant expertise spanning financial investment, banking, senior government affairs, finance strategy, and audit and risk management to our commitment to help people build secure, productive, and just communities. Their insights and experience will be critical to our efforts to increase economic opportunities for some of the world’s most financially disenfranchised people.
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, Chief Executive Officer of Mercy Corps