Diverse Professional Expertise

Manna’s team consists of experienced international professionals dedicated to seeing the success of this humanitarian business.

• CEO Victor Bernstein retired as Executive VP and General Counsel of Loral Skynet. CFO Chuck Adams was previously CFO of Omni Hotels. Exec. VP Evan Thomas and CTO Max Gold managed programs in Rwanda, Nepal and Mexico with Engineers Without Borders-USA, inventing a patent-pending surface water treatment system. COO Josh Kefauver worked for USAID in Eritrea, Afghanistan and Rwanda. Country Manager Peter Muligo worked for USAID in Rwanda. Manna’s other board members, executives and staff are diverse and experienced professionals. Sibling organization Manna Energy Foundation Founder Ron Garan is a NASA Astronaut independent of his work with Manna.

• Manna’s Advisory Board includes experienced technical, development and business experts, including UV water treatment expert Professor Karl Linden and Engineers Without Borders-USA Founder Prof. Bernard Amadei.

• Recipient of the Global Water Challenge Changemakers Award 2008-2009; Purdue/NCIIA Invention to Product Competition 2009; The International EnergyGlobe Awards Rwanda National Award 2008.