Peter was an AMIGOS volunteer in Honduras in 1967, Country Director for Guatemala in 1969, and Country Director in Paraguay in 1972.  He worked with the Boston Chapter in the 1970s and served as a member of the International Board of Directors. Peter was the recipient of the 2009 Dr. Philip C. Johnson, III, Veteran Service Award, which is presented annually to a former volunteer for distinguished service to AMIGOS.

Peter graduated from Dartmouth College and holds an MBA in International Business from The School for International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona. He completed portions of his undergraduate and graduate studies in Mexico and Spain.

Peter has worked internationally in senior management positions with Pepsico, Unilever, General Mills, and Pillsbury. He founded Lighthouse Marketing Services which conducted outsourced marketing management services involving branding, advertising, market research, and web marketing.

His sports passion is sailing and he holds a 100-ton Coast Guard Captain’s license. In January of 2010, Peter and his wife, Margie, departed Miami on a 9-year, 42,000-mile adventure – visiting 44 countries as they circumnavigated the world on their sailboat, Peregrina.

Peter has two daughters who were born in Puerto Rico, a 5-year-old granddaughter and he is looking forward to the birth of a grandson in December 2022.

Kirsten Saenz Tobey co-founded Revolution Foods in 2006 while in graduate school at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Based in Oakland, Revolution Foods is becoming the nation’s leading innovative, nationwide food solution for citywide wellness. Revolution Foods serves approximately 2 million healthy, affordable meals per week across 15 states, serving over 2000 school and community sites in the US. Revolution Foods’ mission is to build lifelong healthy eaters by making kid-inspired, chef-crafted food accessible to all.

Revolution Foods has been named by Fast Company as one of the world’s 50 most innovative companies and has been listed as one of Fortune Magazine’s “Seven World-Changing Companies to Watch”.  Kirsten is a social entrepreneurship fellow for the Schwab Foundation, as well as an Ashoka Fellow, an Aspen Institute Environmental Fellow, and a member of the Culinary Institute of America’s Business Council. She currently is a member of the Board of Directors for Mercaris and ARTA River Trips.

Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kirsten was a teacher, researcher and garden educator. Her AMIGOS service included Costa Rica (volunteer – 1994), Ecuador-Manabi (Field Supervisor – 1996) and Ecuador-Cotapaxi (Associate Project Director – 1998).  Kirsten holds an AB from Brown University and an MBA from UC Berkeley. She lives in the SF Bay Area with her husband and three daughters.

Sarah Collins is Associate Vice President, Principal Gifts at the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health in Palo Alto. The Foundation supports clinical care, research, and education at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and the child and maternal health programs of Stanford University School of Medicine to improve the health of children and expectant mothers, locally and worldwide. Sarah has worked in children’s health philanthropy for more than 18 years.

Sarah’s AMIGOS service includes Paraguay (Volunteer 1994), Honduras (Volunteer 1995, Project Supervisor 1997), and the Dominican Republic (Assistant Project Director 1999). She also volunteered with the Peninsula chapter from 2001-2003 as a Training Director, Recruiting Director, and Board Member. Sarah holds an AB in Human Biology from Stanford University and lives on the Peninsula with her husband and two daughters.

Mr. Stebbins served as an AMIGOS volunteer in Honduras (1972) and Nicaragua (1973) and as staff in Colombia (1974). Since May 2014, he has served as Chairman Emeritus and a non-employee director of World Fuel Services Corporation (NYSE:INT). Previously, Mr. Stebbins served as chairman and chief executive officer of World Fuel from July 2002 to January 2012 and as executive chairman from January 2012 to May 2014. In 1985, Mr. Stebbins co-founded Trans-Tec Services, Inc., a global marine fuel services company acquired by World Fuel in 1995.

Mr. Stebbins also serves as a director of First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) the world’s leading utility scale solar energy company.  He serves on the Leadership Council of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget’s “Fix the Debt” campaign founded by Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson and is a founding member of their “FixUS” initiative on civic and political reform.  He is a member of the Advisory Council of Amigos de las Americas, a youth leadership development program based in Houston, Texas;  a member of the board of Silkroad, a musical ensemble and cultural innovation organization founded by renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Patty Russell has more than 15 years of experience working in strategic planning and evaluation in the social sector. As founder of Russell Advisory Services consultancy, she works with private, corporate, and community foundations to develop data-driven philanthropic strategies on issues ranging from educational attainment and affordable housing to global health and development. Patty also partners with corporate leaders to develop shared value strategies that align strong business outcomes with measurable social impact.

Previously, Patty was a managing director with FSG, a mission-driven consulting firm that works with clients to achieve large-scale, lasting social change. At FSG, she led the Catalytic Philanthropy practice, advising foundations on strategy, program design, evaluation, and operational improvement. She has blogged and written extensively on philanthropy and shared value, including articles in Stanford Social Innovation Review and Forbes. Patty holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

AMIGOS experience: Volunteer (Ecuador ’88, Mexico ’89), Route Supervisor (Dominican Republic ’93), Project Director (Paraguay ’94), International Office (’92, ’95).

Kristin has served as Peace Corps Country Director in the Dominican Republic since September 2016. Prior to that, she served for two years in the Inter-America and Pacific Region as Chief of Programming and Training and three years as the Director of Programming and Training in Peace Corps/Panama. Before joining Peace Corps, Kristin obtained her Master’s degree in public health from Tulane University and spent time interning with CARE International in Guatemala and Save the Children in El Salvador. In 2000, she moved to Washington, DC to work on a USAID-funded family planning evaluation project. Then in 2002, Kristin moved to Texas to work with the non-profit Amigos de las Americas (AMIGOS) as Regional Director for Brazil, Paraguay, Honduras, and Nicaragua. She became the Director of Latin American Programs for AMIGOS in 2005 and eventually Vice President of Programs in 2009. Her background is in youth leadership development and international health.

Mike is a Managing Director and Partner of Akkadian Ventures. Previously, he was a member of the founding team of Industry Ventures, where he served as a Managing Director since 2004. Mike led Industry’s investments in Facebook (FB), Twitter, Pandora (P), LifeLock (LOCK), Jajah (Acquired by Telefonica), Cloudmark, Lowercase Capital (Twitter, Uber, Instagram), Walden Venture Capital (Pandora, Glam, SoundHound) and Madrona (Isilon), among others. He also helped grow Industry Ventures from less then $10 million AUM to over $1 billion AUM.

Prior to Industry, Mike worked at BV Capital (formerly Bertelsmann Ventures) in San Francisco, a $275 million international venture capital fund. At BV, he sourced, structured, and managed direct venture investments. Earlier in his career, Mike worked in Business Development at Personify, a CRM analytics software company.

Mike holds a BA from University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Regents and Alumni Scholar, and an MS from the London School of Economics.