Co-founders Jules Caron and Misha Lepetic have been friends since first meeting in Bolivia in 1998. Jules has lived and worked in the Congo Basin as a campaigner for environmental and human-rights organizations since 2012. Misha has 25 years of experience and success in the information technology and services industry in New York.
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Jules Caron has fourteen years of campaigning, advocacy, communications, and journalism experience worldwide. He has lived and traveled in the Congo Basin since 2012, working as a campaigner for organizations such as WWF, Global Witness and Oxfam, and collaborating with numerous local civil-society organizations. His advocacy successes include sending elephant poachers to jail, preventing an expansion of DRC’s logging sector, and ensuring gender parity in CAR’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He now lives in Nairobi.
Misha Lepetic has 25 years of experience in the information technology and services industry, including pharma (Pfizer), publishing (Hachette Book Group), and educational technology (Nielsen), as well as non-profits (International Planned Parenthood Federation, Human Rights Watch, United Nations Democracy Fund). Skilled in IT strategy, management, and understanding organizations' technological needs, he earned a Master of Science in Technology Management from Columbia University in 2008. He lives out of his carry-on luggage.
