A key asset of Passerelles Numériques is a professional permanent core team with a high level of commitment to the cause:

Virginie Legrand, global coordinator and fundraiser

Virginie Legrand, 46 years old, started her career as a financial auditor with Arthur Andersen in France. She then worked for American Express as a marketing manager, sales and marketing Director and then Director in charge of external growth and international development for the Business Travel branch of the group.
 
She has a strong experience of leading multicultural teams in the conduct of global projects – alliances and partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, launch of new services.
 
In parallel to her professional career, she spent a year in Cambodia as a volunteer for the NGO “Enfants du Mékong” (Children of the Mekong). Convinced of the strong necessity to build bridges between corporations and NGO’s , Virginie Legrand is involved in development projects linking those two worlds. She is working on the CIST project three days a week.
 
Virginie Legrand graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and holds an MBA from Insead. She is married with three children.

Amélie Huard, coordination officer and fundraiser

Amélie, 27 years old, graduated in psychology before getting a Master’s degree in People and Organizations management from ESCP-EAP business school, in Paris.

She then worked 2 years in Cambodia, in Banteay Chmar, a small village in the North West of the country, as a manager of “Les Soieries du Mékong”. Her assignment was to provide this silk weaving training center with proper production and sales functions, for operational and financial sustainability. This thrilling experience convinced her that instead of ignoring each other, joint actions between NGOs and companies were a key-necessity for the economic development of a country.

Amélie is married with 2 children.

Hakara Tea, projects director

Hakara Tea, 31 years old, has been combining experiences both in the private sector and on development projects.

He has spent 2 years with the consulting group AT Kearney, where he was involved in change management projects at the corporate level of international companies and he has worked 1 year as a Business Development Manager in a French high-tech start-up company, having it selected by Capital-IT, a major salon for European VCs, and incubated by a regional structure.

In 2002 / 2003, he volunteered for the Vocational Training Center of Pour un Sourire d’Enfant, an NGO based in Phnom Penh, where he monitored the Secretary Training, managing about 15 teachers.
Previous to CIST, Hakara was conducting assignments for UNDP (United Nations Development Program) and Altai Consulting in the area of Private Sector Development in Kabul, involving business planning, local team coordination and field trips in various Afghan provinces and neighboring countries.

Hakara is fluent in Khmer (his parents are Cambodian). He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom Paris and holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

 

Alain Goyé, Cambodia country manager

Alain, 42 years old, first worked as a science teacher in Site II, a Khmer refugee camp in Thaïland. From 1992 to 1995 he took part in the rehabilitation of the Institut de Technologie du Cambodge (ITC), and created a boarding home for underprivileged students in Phnom Penh.
 
From 1995 to 2005, Alain worked in information technologies (IT) R&D. He also frequently went back to Cambodia, for missions which ranged from IT training to drainage network studies. Convinced that IT is a promising development area for this country, Alain supports various projects to turn this promise into a reality.
 
Alain is a founding member of 3 NGOs which support underprivileged children in Cambodia: Krousar Thmey, Pour un Sourire d’Enfant, and Asie du Sud-Est Audition Réhabilitation.
 
A graduate engineer from Ecole Polytechnique and “Telecom Paris”, Alain also holds a Ph-D and an audiologist state degree. He has a Cambodian wife and he is fluent in Khmer.