Board Chair & Founder

Chuck Slaughter

Chuck founded Living Goods in 2007, led the organization as CEO for 10 years, and now serves as Chairman. Chuck earned a BA in Architecture and a Master’s in Public and Private Management from Yale. In 1991 he founded TravelSmith, a leading travel gear company, and grew it to over $100 million in catalog and online sales. As a private equity investor, he has participated in the acquisition of over $2 billion in consumer businesses.

As its pro-bono president, Chuck led the turnaround of a system of franchised clinics serving the poor in Kenya. Chuck is a Senior Advisor to the TPG Rise Fund. He serves on the boards of Yale’s School of Management, Tidepool, Dharma Platform (a TPG Company), Aspen Management Partners for Health, and the Horace Goldsmith Foundation. He received a Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award, a Draper Richards Fellowship, and is a World Economic Forum Social Entrepreneur of the Year.

Vice Board Chair; Principal, McClintock Scott Group

Cheryl M. Scott

As the major principal for McClintock Scott, Cheryl provides executive and board-level counsel on matters of strategy, leadership, and governance. From 2008 to 2016, she served as senior advisor for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In that role, she provided strategic advice and leadership support to the Foundation’s global programs.

She joined the foundation in 2006 and for two years was its Chief Operating Officer, overseeing all major operational functions. Previously, Cheryl served as the President and CEO of the Seattle-based Group Health. Her eight-year tenure as CEO capped a distinguished 25-year career with the organization, which also included roles as the organization’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Cheryl received her Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and a Master’s Degree in Health Management from the University of Washington.

She currently serves on a variety of private and not-for-profit boards. In 2005, the University of Washington and Group Health created the Cheryl M. Scott/Group Health Cooperative Professorship in Health Care Leadership in the School of Public Health. Cheryl is a frequent speaker at health policy forums and is also a clinical professor at the University of Washington’s Department of Health Services.

Chief Executive Officer

Emilie Chambert

Emilie is Living Goods’ incoming CEO as of January 1, 2025. With over 20 years of experience in public and private sectors—including more than a decade in public health at CHAI and Living Goods and seven years living and working in Uganda—Emilie is a proven leader in scaling impactful initiatives and engaging with governments across Africa. She led our exciting expansion into Burkina Faso, where the early results are exemplary.

In her role as Chief Programs Officer, she drove organizational excellence and expansion, ensuring evidence-based impact and cost efficiency. Since joining Living Goods in 2014, she has held progressive leadership roles as our Uganda Operations Director, Deputy Country Director, Country Director, and Regional Director for Expansion. She got her MBA from EDHEC in Lille, France, and is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, which further enhances her ability to work effectively in both anglophone and francophone countries.

Chief Innovation Officer, Evolent Health

Anita Cattrell

As Chief Innovation Officer of Evolent Health, Dr. Cattrell is responsible for setting strategic innovation priorities and deploying a consistent approach that enables focus on clear objectives and evaluation of outcomes through rapid-cycle test and learn pilots.  In her role, Dr. Cattrell oversees clinical program design powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence, resulting in improved quality and a reduction in total medical expense by over 40% for the highest acuity patients. 

She holds a PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from Harvard University and has spent more than 10 years building risk models and evaluating the impact of clinical initiatives for the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Centers for Disease Control, and USAID. 

Dr. Cattrell previously served as the Director of Monitoring and Evaluation for Partners in Health in Rwanda, where she helped to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care through community health workers.  She has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University and a MS in Biomedical Engineering from Harvard University.

President Emeritus, IntraHealth International

Pape Amadou Gaye

Pape Gaye is a native of Senegal and a lifelong advocate for family planning, the global health workforce, and access to health care for all. Under his leadership as president and CEO of IntraHealth International, from 2004 to 2020, the organization made human resources for health and family planning crucial parts of the worldwide conversation on global health.

Gaye draws on three decades of leadership in international health and development as he oversaw work in 40 countries to strengthen their health workforces and health systems. Gaye began his career with the US Peace Corps and went on to work with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Committee and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before his appointment as CEO at IntraHealth, he led the organization’s regional office for West, Central, and North Africa. Gaye holds an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles.

In addition to Living Goods, Gaye’s current board and advisory services include:  the Duke University’s Global Health Institute (DGHI), the Access Challenge, InterAction, the Global Health Council (GHC), Last Mile Health and the Baobab Institute in Senegal.

Director, Innovation Hub, Jhpiego

Dr. Joanne Peter

As Director of Jhpiego’s Innovation Hub, Joanne leads a multidisciplinary team that combines frontier technology, human-centered design, and market-based solutions to drive new models of decentralized, data-driven and person-centered care across Jhpiego’s work in 35 countries. Previously Joanne focused on supporting and championing primary care nurses, midwives and community health workers – and their connection to communities – through the Johnson & Johnson Center for Health Worker Innovation.  She specializes in the use of health technology in low-resource settings.

She has provided philanthropic support and strategic input to a portfolio of mobile health programs over the last decade, including MomConnect and mMitra – mobile messaging services that have reached over 10 million mothers and babies with vital information on health, nutrition, and early childhood development. Joanne trained in Medicine and International Development at the University of Cape Town and Oxford University respectively.

She has spent her career in strategic philanthropy, including time with Google.org, the UN Foundation and DGMT working on a range of health, technology, and innovation programs. She serves on the advisory boards of Jacaranda Health and the Global Digital Health Index, and on the Peer Review Committee of Digital Square.

Africa Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Solomon Zewdu

Dr. Solomon Zewdu is the deputy director in the Africa office of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he shapes continental health, nutrition, disease eradication, and development investments. Prior to moving to the continental platform, he served as the deputy director in Ethiopia, where he created significant opportunities for system-based investments; built on concurrently identifying, planning, and aligning the Foundation’s priorities with the Government of Ethiopia HSTP and the donor community.

Given his background in emergency management strategy, planning and response, he also serves as the BMGF COVID-19 coordinator for the African continent, to inform the shaping of critical COVID-19 interventions. Prior to joining the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Dr. Zewdu worked both in the private sector and the US Department of Defense up to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel – USAF.

He relocated to Ethiopia to take the position of Country Director for the US PEPFAR program under the joint program of the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Executive Director, Evidence, Measurement & Evaluation, CIFF; Living Goods Board Observer

Anna Hakobyan

Anna leads CIFF’s EME team and oversees evidence generation, monitoring and evaluation of CIFF’s portfolio of investments across all sectors. Before joining CIFF in 2009, Anna led the Learning and Evaluation function at Y Care International working on programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Before this, Anna was a Senior Policy and Research Coordinator at Transparency International where she developed and managed an evidence-based advisory desk for governments and multilateral agencies on good governance and transparency. In the early years of her career, Anna worked at the World Bank and led development and climate programs at a grassroots NGO in Armenia.

Her professional interests and expertise include strategy and portfolio level evaluations, assessing the impact of policy and advocacy investments, transparency and accountability. Anna holds a Master’s Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex, UK and is a Soros Foundation scholar. She was elected and served as Trustee of the Association for Women’s Rights in Development and is engaged with a number of European and Africa-based networks focusing on issues of impact, quality and accountability in the international development sector.

Vice President of Operations, World Cocoa Foundation

Dougal Freeman

Dougal Freeman is WCF’s Vice President of Operations. He is responsible for leading the organisation’s finance strategy, operations and plays an integral role in the broader growth and performance of WCF. Dougal brings more than two decades of global experience spanning the private sector, NGOs and not-for-profits.

He has worked extensively across Africa and the Middle East for major international development, food and agribusiness organisations, and held Deputy CEO and Finance Director roles in public health consultancy and a Nobel Prize-winning International Development Organisation based out of the UK.

Additionally, for six years, Dougal has implemented best practices and led operational transformations at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) in Switzerland as CFO. He was a board member at and CFO at Oxford Policy Management, an international development consultancy specializing in economics. Prior to joining WCF, Dougal spent 11 months at HR Wallingford, the UK’s premier water research and consulting organization.

A graduate of Imperial College London with a BSc in Agricultural Business Management, Freeman also holds a MSc in Agricultural Development Economics and MBA from the University of Reading and Alliance Manchester Business School, respectively.

CEO of the Beginnings Fund

Alice Kang’ethe

Alice Kang’ethe is a global health leader with over 20 years of experience in program and non-profit management. She is the founding CEO of the Beginnings Fund, a philanthropic initiative that partners with African governments to accelerate progress in saving maternal and newborn lives. Recently, Alice served as the global Chief Operating Officer at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), where she oversaw a complex operation involving multiple programs across over 40 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Prior to this role, she held several global program leadership positions focused on women’s and children’s health. As the Executive Vice President of Vaccine Delivery and Family Planning programs, she led the development and implementation of CHAI’s global strategy to expedite the introduction of new childhood vaccines, improve the performance and efficiency of vaccine cold chain systems, and increase the uptake of long-acting reversible contraceptives.

As Vice President of Maternal and Child Health, Alice initiated CHAI’s integrated strategy for Maternal and Newborn Health. Before that, she launched and led CHAI’s global Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program. Alice began her journey at CHAI by managing country program operations after joining as a volunteer in 2003, where she contributed to the development of the first comprehensive HIV/AIDS care and treatment plans for the governments of South Africa and Tanzania.

Alice’s early career was as a management consultant at KPMG East Africa, where she served clients in international development, public sector advisory services, and people and change advisory services. Her clients included organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the World Bank, and various government ministries. She holds a first-class degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa and a Master of Science degree in Economics and Human Resource Management from the London School of Economics.

CEO of Field Intelligence

Michael Moreland 

Michael Moreland has over 15 years of experience building health technology products and services in Africa, all with the aim of improving access to quality care at scale. He is the co-founder and CEO of Field Intelligence, a venture-backed healthtech company
serving supply chain technology, distribution, and financing solutions for healthcare providers across Nigeria and Kenya.

Under his leadership, Field Supply has enabled over 800 million health interventions and supports a diverse network of stakeholders, including Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health, subnational governments, USAID, Global Fund, Gates Foundation, and over 10,000
private pharmacies and hospitals. In 2022, the Financial Times recognized Field as Africa’s 25th fastest-growing company.

Michael also co-founded SEEDR, leading the development of innovative cold-chain technologies for vaccines and biologics. Earlier in his career, he held roles at McKinsey & Co., UNICEF, and the CDC, contributing to global health initiatives such as the Global
Polio Response.

Michael holds a B.S. with highest honor from the Georgia Institute of Technology and certifications from the World Bank Institute and London School of Economics. He brings to Living Goods a passion for advancing health equity through innovation and technology.