Rob Rutherford is Airbel’s Program & Finance Lead. He works on all things budget and finance related overseeing grants financial management as well as departmental financial management. Rob brings a diverse background rooted in business and finance having spent his first few years of work in the private sector focused on energy market analysis for an investment bank and variety of energy companies. He shifted his efforts to relief and development by returning to school for a degree in sustainable development with a focus on social enterprise and then diving into the NGO world providing support for the development and scaling of a program leveraging market based solutions to reach under employed populations in Ghana. He has since spent time managing private fundraising data and analytics and prior to joining the IRC in a design, monitoring, evaluation and learning role based in Myanmar.