Position: Director of Sales and Product Management – Clean Cook Stoves India

Location: Based in Fort Collins, Colorado (approximately 40% of job will be international travel)

Organization: Envirofit International was established to develop well-engineered technology solutions to improve the human condition on a global scale, with a primary emphasis on applications in the developing world. Envirofit's goal is to develop and distribute well-engineered energy products for low-income markets that traditionally have been overlooked.

Position Description: Envirofit is seeking a full time Director of Sales and Product Management to help design, develop, and distribute products that address major environmental problems in the developing world. Based in Fort Collins, Colorado, Envirofit is currently developing a portfolio of clean biomass cook-stoves.  The stove business goals are to design, develop and distribute 5+ million stoves in the next 5 years to countries on 3 continents (Asia, Africa and Latin America).

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Later this month, I will be traveling to Madrid to attend a day-long forum sponsored by Accenture, Compromiso Empresarial and the City of Madrid entitled "Como Hacer Negocios en la Base de la Piramide" (How to Do Business at the Base of the Pyramid).

Others addressing the forum include:

• Mercedes Canalda, Vice Presidenta del Banco Adopem. República Dominicana
• Mª Beatriz Rodríguez, Presidenta de Procter & Gamble Colombia
• David Felipe Acosta. Gerente Comercial Codensa, Colombia
• Wilson Jácome. Profesor del IDE Escuela de Negocios, Ecuador
• Juan Luis Martínez, Profesor del IE Business School, España
  

For more information on the event, visit the ASEPAM web site or download the event flier from Compromiso Empresarial.

If you are planning to attend the event, be sure to let me know - I always enjoy meeting NextBillion readers!

NextBillion readers, the time has come for me also to bid you goodbye as a daily contributor to NextBillion.net. It's been a great six-month run for me here at the World Resources Institute, and I will greatly miss sharing the interest of hundreds of you out there who are watching BoP models grow by the day!

Over the coming months I will continue to contribute as a Staff Writer, with musings and new experiences from New York City (Rob Katz, that was my idea first!), where I will working in the BoP space. Stay tuned for more, and I'll be updating my profile soon!

As the week winds down, I have some exciting news to share: in a few weeks, I will be leaving World Resources Institute (NextBillion's parent organization) to take a full-time position with the Acumen Fund, a NextBillion ally and major player in the BoP movement.

I am excited to be moving to New York and to be working with Acumen, an organization I have long admired.  I will be working on Acumen's Portfolio Strategies team, researching and writing about the Fund's investments, strategy and other activities.  As I get acquainted with my new job (I start March 3), I will be sure to post updates here on NextBillion.

This brings me to some other exciting news: though I am leaving WRI's employment, I will remain the Co-Managing Editor of NextBillion.net.  That's right: Co-Managing Editor.  I am pleased to announce that Derek Newberry, a long-time Staff Writer and Research Analyst with New Ventures, has been named NextBillion.net's new Co-Managing Editor.

Derek and I will be working in the coming months to extend the depth and scope of our BoP coverage, with the goal of taking NextBillion.net to the 'next level'.  We are glad to have a cadre of talented Staff Writers working with us on this goal, and we are in the early stages of a site re-development and re-design plan.

We'll have more updates in the coming weeks and months.  In the mean time, please join me in congratulating Derek on his new role.  If you have questions about these changes or anything else related to NextBillion.net, please post a comment below or contact us directly.

Have a good weekend...