Allison Goldberg oversees the execution of the Foundation’s strategic vision and mission while testing new models for cross-sector collaboration. Before assuming this role, she served as the Vice President of Strategy & Programs at the AB InBev Foundation. Allison was previously the Director of Global Corporate Affairs at AB InBev corporate where she worked across the company and with outside experts to develop the architecture and strategy of the Global Smart Drinking Goals and the Together for Safe Roads initiative, a crossindustry coalition that works to improve road safety worldwide. She also worked at Abt Associates, a consulting firm, and held research positions at the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at Columbia University. Allison is a 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar and holds an academic appointment as Lecturer at Columbia University where she teaches a course entitled, “Global Intractable Challenges: Innovations, Frameworks, and Change.” Most recently, she was appointed as the co-chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Public Private Partnership committee.

Allison earned an interdisciplinary PhD in Public Health and Political Science from Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan.

Catie de Montille fulfills the Foundation’s commitment to transparency through cross-channel communications. She comes to this role with more than a decade of experience in designing, directing, and implementing integrated marketing and communications strategies for a range of corporate, foundation, government, and non-profit organizations. Catie previously led the Digital & Social Media practice at ICF, a global consulting and technology services company. She specialized in providing digital marketing counsel for clients in the public health sector, including both government and private sector clients. Prior to ICF, she was Vice President in Weber Shandwick’s Social Impact Practice, a specialized team within the global public relations firm, where she advised on strategic communications and engagement at the intersection of corporate social responsibility and sustainable innovation. She has previously served as a guest instructor at George Washington University.

Catie earned her M.Ed. in Organizational Leadership and B.S. degrees in both Psychology and Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University.

Courtney Burks serves in a dual technical and managerial role to facilitate successful collaborations across sectors and to support implementing partners in program planning and implementation in all six City Pilots. She also oversees the Foundation’s financial and operations functions. Courtney previously worked as a Country Lead on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at the U.S. Department of State where she developed and managed large-scale, multi-million dollar HIV/AIDS programs across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Courtney also worked at Partners in Health in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and worked as a staff member on educational and community engagement programs at Stanford University School of Medicine. She has previously served as a guest instructor at Harvard Medical School and has conducted consultancies with the Population Council and the World Bank.

Courtney holds an MPH degree and an MA degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and has a BA in both Spanish and International Relations from the University of California, Davis.

Tom Achoki manages the relationships and activities in the Foundation’s research and impact measurement portfolio. He cofounded Mass Sciences, a Boston-based health data analytics startup focused on improving efficiency in healthcare systems. Previously, Tom was a Sloan Fellow at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and prior to that he served as the Director of African Initiatives and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

Tom is a medical doctor with a specialization in public health (MPH) and tropical medicine (DTM&H) from the University of Pretoria in South Africa. He also completed a PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Veronica Martin has a background in event planning and administration in both the corporate and nonprofit fields. She is a living kidney donor who enjoys attending events to promote organ donation advocacy and Alzheimer disease awareness, working with kids, and spending time with her grandchildren.

Veronica is a Washington, DC notary public and is attending the New York Institute of Art and Design to obtain her certificate in Event Planning.

Benjamin Zhou is responsible for overseeing the execution of all Foundation-supported programmatic activities in the City Pilot. Prior to this role, he was the Jiangshan City Pilot’s Steering Committee Coordinator. Before joining the Foundation, Benjamin worked in China’s English TV news scene for almost 11 years, serving from a front-line reporter to a behind-the-scenes producer. This experience provided Benjamin with a deep understanding of Chinese politics and culture and the skills to navigate crossborder and crosscultural exchanges.

Benjamin earned an MA in Media and Cultural Analysis from Loughborough University in England and a BA in Advertising from Shanghai International Studies University.

Elena Cardenas Vargas oversees execution of all Foundation-supported programmatic activities in the City Pilot. Prior to this role, Elena was the Zacatecas, Mexico City Pilot Steering Committee Coordinator. She has more than 20 years of consulting experience with expertise in process development, project management, and a variety of technologies, models, and methodologies such as BPM, SOA, CMMI®, MoProSoft, Project Management, Knowledge Management, and Change Management. Elena has worked with clients across sectors, from IT to finance and retail. Prior to consulting, she worked for Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Mexico.

Elena earned an MS in Computational Sciences and a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Thokozile Budaza is the Johannesburg City Pilot Program Officer. She is also the Managing Director at Transitions Foundation, an after-school program that helps improve the educational performance of young South Africans. For the past 15 years, she has worked throughout Southern Africa to advance public health models by working for a variety of international organizations including Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), the Global Call to Action Against Poverty, CIVICUS, Action Aid, Soul City Institute, and more. Thokozile also served as an executive on the board of the Sonke Gender Justice Network from 2006 to 2010.

Thokozile has received a variety of accolades for her work, including a White Ribbon Award in 2006 from Women Demand Dignity and served as a 2016 Mandela Washington Fellow, a program under former President Barack Obama.

Thokozile holds an MPH from the University of the Western Cape as well as a BSc in Biotechnology from the same institution, a BA Honours degree in Population and Demography from Witwatersrand University, and an Advanced Health Management Diploma from the Foundation for Professional Development in affiliation with Yale School of Public Health.