EDUARDO TUGENDHAT – CEO
Mr. Tugendhat is one of the founders of CARANA Corporation, having established the Washington area office in 1988. He has been CEO since 2000, overseeing CARANA's worldwide consulting and project implementation activities. Prior to joining CARANA, he spent 11 years with Arthur D. Little, Inc. as market manager for the Caribbean and Central America, and as a core member of the Economic Development Unit. Mr. Tugendhat holds an M.A. in Ibero-American studies from University of Wisconsin, and a B.A. from Harvard University. He is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Russian, with applied experience in over 60 countries.
SANTIAGO SEDACA – President
Mr. Sedaca was most recently CARANA's chief of party under USAID’s Productive Networkproject in Ecuador, which advises the government and the private sector there to develop key industries and producer networks. He was previously CARANA's vice president for the Latin America and Caribbean region, where he successfully designed and managed USAID programs in international trade, competitiveness, enterprise development, micro-, small-, and medium-enterprise, and cluster development, including the Colombia Enterprise Development project and the Guyana Trade and Investment Support project. Before joining CARANA in 2003, he served the Salt Lake Olympic Committee as director of operations planning and management, where he oversaw drastic changes in the Games' operational plans following the 9/11 attacks. Mr. Sedaca holds an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and a B.A. in economics and political studies from Gordon College. He is fluent in Spanish.
R. WILLIAM PHELPS – Executive Vice President, Corporate Services
Mr. Phelps has been with CARANA since 1996. As CARANA's Executive Vice President for Global Operations, he has both corporate and project responsibilities, currently managing the Certified International Professional Accounting program in Russia and the Balkan countries. His corporate responsibilities include contracts, finance and accounting, information and communication technology, and human resources. Internationally, he was director of South Urals Privatization Center in Russia, the Privatization Operations Center in Romania and CARANA's privatization project in Egypt. Mr. Phelps is a certified public accountant and fraud examiner. He holds an M.S. in accounting from Arizona State University.
JOYJIT DEB ROY – Senior Vice President
Mr. Deb Roy joined CARANA in 2003 to manage the firm's practice in Africa and Asia. He presently oversees CARANA’s trade hub projects in West and Southern Africa. He brings extensive experience conducting a broad range of macroeconomic studies in Eastern Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia, and has analyzed competitiveness and firm-level operations globally. He has worked in over 30 countries with a variety of donors, including USAID, TDA, the World Bank, ADB, and DfID. He holds graduate degrees in public administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and in history from Delhi University. Mr. Deb Roy is a native speaker of Hindi and Bengali.
PETER BOONE – Vice President
Mr. Boone joined CARANA in 2007. He has led more than 50 economic development projects in a total of 40 countries and in more than a dozen U.S. states and regions, specializing in economic competitiveness and value-chain development. Mr. Boone has been a principal economist at SRI International, an assistant secretary for Papua New Guinea’s Department of Agriculture, an economist at the World Bank, and a volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps in Togo. He holds an M.S. in International Economics from Cornell University and a B.A. in American Studies from Colby College. He is fluent in French and speaks conversational Mina (Togo) and Melanesian Pidgin.
MARIA V. MARTINKOV – Vice President
Ms. Braslavskaya joined CARANA in 1994 to work on USAID's Small Scale Privatization Project in Kazakhstan. She has been with CARANA’s headquarters in Arlington since 1999. Ms. Braslavskaya is responsible for contract administration from the award to close out. She develops internal controls to maintain compliance with all contractual requirements and provides guidance and interpretation on federal and other clients’ rules and regulations to project offices and the headquarters. She also oversees implementation of procurement and grant award policies and procedures for CARANA’s home office and global operations. Ms. Braslavskaya holds a Master’s Certificate in government contracting from George Washington University School of Business, a M.A. in international affairs from Kazakh State University of International Relations, and Associate's Degree in Accounting from the International School of Business. She is fluent in Russian.
CARL LARKINS – Vice President
Mr. Larkins joined CARANA in 2001 and currently serves as chief of party under USAID’s Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion project in the West Bank and Gaza. He was previously CARANA's chief of party for USAID's Guyana Trade and Investment Support project, which advises the government and the private sector on strategic initiatives to increase export and market linkages of the country’s productive sectors. He has led more than 15 economic development and governance projects in nine countries and in more than a dozen U.S. states, focusing on trade and market linkage development as well as legislative and governance issues. Mr. Larkins was formerly assistant director for legislative affairs with AFL-CIO, and deputy director for Southern Africa with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. He holds an B.A. in Political Science from Colorado State University. He is proficient in French.
ROMAN S. PONOS – Vice President
Mr. Ponos joined CARANA in 2002 and currently serves as deputy chief of party for USAID's Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion project in the West Bank and Gaza. Previously, he was CARANA's vice president for human resources and risk management, regional manager for the Caucasus and Western N.I.S., and assistant vice president for business development. Before joining CARANA, he was a regional manager for a USAID Health Care Finance Reform Program in Ukraine and Moldova. Mr. Ponos earned an MBA in international management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management, and a B.A. in international affairs from the George Washington University. He is fluent in Ukrainian and proficient in Russian and German.
