Rose Shuman

Current

• Founder & CEO at Open Mind Company
• Independent Consultant at Intersection of Business and International Development

Past

• Director of Business Development at AdLens
• Senior Programme Manager at Adaptive Eyewear
• Corporate and Foundations Relations Manager at Direct Relief International

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Education

• Brown University
• Brown University
• Brown University

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

International Trade and Development

Websites

• My Company

Rose Shuman’s Summary

Specialty is intersection of business and international development.

As a consultant, I take on select clients in the international business/social enterprise space. Core is marketing & business development; on-the-ground research. Refining business concepts to make them work in developing world context, assistance with implementation. I help you understand what you are getting into and how to best do it before investing the money.

Goals: To work with companies interested in entering or expanding their presence in the developing world.


As Founder and CEO of Open Mind, I am bringing Internet information to persons in India & Uganda via local language telephone hotlines. This provides many benefits of direct Internet access via telephone.

I handle: Major strategy and company vision, investor relations and fundraising, business development, marketing/collateral development, complex international project management, research, operations management. Directing 15 team members on five continents, including engineering staff.

Goal: To link with funding and implementation partners. Interested in hearing from foundations as well as social capital space.


Industries of particular expertise:
Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Industry, Information and Communication for Development (ICT), Mobile Phones in the Developing World, Social Enterprise, International Development

Rose Shuman’s Specialties:

Developing World, International Markets, International Project Management, New Business Development, Strategic Planning, Product Positioning, Research,

Rose Shuman’s Experience

• Founder & CEO

  Open Mind Company

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

  Home of Question Box Project - www.questionbox.org
  Question Box leapfrogs the current barriers to accessing the Internet by providing information via a human interface.

• Independent Consultant

  Intersection of Business and International Development

  (International Trade and Development industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

  Take on select clients in the international business/social enterprise space. Marketing & business development. Refining business concepts to make them work in developing world context, assistance with implementation.

• Director of Business Development

  AdLens

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  January 2007 — January 2009 (2 years 1 month)

  Managing launch of new consumer vision care product in US and world markets.

• Senior Programme Manager

  Adaptive Eyewear

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 2005 — January 2009 (3 years 6 months)

  Adaptive Eyewear is dedicated to disseminating a new technology - adaptive eyeglasses - that permits users to find their lens power and make their own eyeglasses within a few minutes.
  
  Responsibilities include: project management, project and partnership development, fundraising.

• Corporate and Foundations Relations Manager

  Direct Relief International

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  2003 — 2005 (2 years )

  Solicited drug donations from pharmaceutical companies and managed ongoing relationships. Grantwriting and foundation relations.

Rose Shuman’s Education

• Brown University

  MA , International Development , 1997 — 2002

  Simultaneously received two BAs & an MA; only person my year to do so.

  Activities and Societies:

  Phi Beta Kappa, Brown Daily Herald, Brown Association of Cooperative Housing

• Brown University

  BA , International Relations , 1997 — 2002

  Magna Cum Laude, Honors. Received MacLeod Prize for thesis.

• Brown University

  BA , Visual Arts , 1997 — 2002

Additional Information

Rose Shuman’s Websites:

• My Company

Rose Shuman’s Interests:

Start-up ventures, painting, bicycling

Rose Shuman’s Groups:

•    Grameen Foundation
•    Brown University Alumni of Los Angeles
•    Social Capital Markets Conference (SoCap09)
•    Skoll World Forum

Rose Shuman’s Honors:

Panelist, Haas School of Business Global Social Venture Competition (2009)
Sponsored Poster Presenter, World Health Congress, Washington, DC (2009)
Participant, Skoll Forum on Social Entrepreneurship (2009)
Panelist, SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX (2009)
Question Box in Final 15, NetSquared – USAID Competition (2008)
Guest lecturer, Berkeley University, “Poverty and Technology” seminar (2008)
Sponsored speaker, W3C Workshop on the Role of Mobile Technology in Social Development, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2008)

Rose Shuman’s Contact Settings

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