Our Team
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Richard Crespin
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Alicia O’Brien
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Pilar Frank O’Leary
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Nanette Alvey
Consultant Network -
Ana Blanco
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Lina Delgado
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Mariana Quiroga
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Imakando Sinyama
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Petra Stankard
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Jenn Weidman
Consultant Network
Richard Crespin
CEO
Alicia O’Brien
Head of Business Administration
Pilar Frank O’Leary
Social Impact & Senior Advisor
She has served as a senior advisor to organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank, CAF Development Bank, the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, Hilton Foundation, Facebook, The Coca-Cola Company, National Geographic Society, and Shakira’s Fundación Pies Descalzos. Her work spans the Americas and global markets, with a focus on building inclusive, sustainable strategies that deliver measurable social returns.
Pilar has held leadership roles at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Fannie Mae, and the Smithsonian, bringing a unique blend of legal, financial, and nonprofit expertise. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Georgetown University Law Center, and earned a certificate in Sustainability Strategies from Stanford Business School. She is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, with proficiency in Italian and Portuguese.
Pilar serves on the Global Leadership Council of the Meridian International Center, the Board of Trustees for the Orchestra of the Americas, and the Bretton Woods Committee. She also co-founded Isabella & Ferdinand Academia de Español, a nonprofit children’s language and culture program accredited by the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid.
She resides in the Washington, DC area with her family and has been honored by the Colombian government and the Parte Guelfa in Florence, Italy for her contributions to diplomacy, sustainability, and social impact.
Nanette Alvey
Consultant Network
Ana Blanco
Consultant Network
Lina Delgado
Consultant Network
In addition to her role at CollaborateUp, Lina serves as the Executive Director of the Colombian American Association (CAA) in New York. She leads business-relevant programs covering geopolitical issues and other current affairs of interest to the business, public sector, NGO, and academic communities. As Executive Director, she oversees the development of new revenue sources, as well as building and maintaining relationships with sponsors, internal stakeholders, corporate members, and funders.
At the CAA, Ms. Delgado also created the Association’s first incubation program for early-stage entrepreneurs from minority groups in Colombia. The program aims to help entrepreneurs build their businesses from the ground up and generate a positive impact in their communities.
As a women and gender equality advocate, Lina implemented diversity and inclusion policies to all programs, including a rule to have at least one female speaker on all panels.
Prior to joining CAA, she founded a digital marketing agency serving small and mid-size companies wanting to promote their businesses and engage with their customers online and offline. Before that, Ms. Delgado worked as a senior investor relations associate at i-Advize, covering Latin American companies. Lina worked closely with CFOs and IRO’s of publicly traded companies preparing communication strategies and reports for investors and buy-side equity analysts while developing new business for her practice.
Ms. Delgado holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from ICESI University in Cali, Colombia, and an MBA Essentials certificate from the London School of Economics.
She enjoys mentoring social entrepreneurs, spending time with her two dogs Santo & Lupita, and visiting her native country Colombia.
Mariana Quiroga
Consultant Network
Imakando Sinyama
Consultant Network
Petra Stankard
Consultant Network
Her belief in the strength of collaborative approaches to drive social impact is born of 15-years in the global health field where she led market shaping efforts to speed the adoption of new health technologies in middle- and low-income countries. This work required complex multi-stakeholder collaborations with academic institutions, private sector companies, community-based organizations, large multilateral organizations, and a diversity of governments. In this capacity she honed extensive skills in human centered design, qualitative research, systems analysis and inclusive facilitation approaches. Petra holds a BA from Vassar College and a Master in Public Health from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, with a focus on social behavior change and adult learning. When she isn’t designing workshops, she can be found pretending to be a dragon for her two young kids, booking a yoga class, or cramming for an upcoming book club.
