Reed Kramer -- Chief Executive Officer

Amadou Mahtar Ba -- President

Tamela J. Hultman -- Chief Strategy and Content Officer

Kwindla H. Kramer -- Chief Technology Officer and Director

Akwe Amosu -- Founding Executive Editor / Director, AllAfrica Foundation

Matambira Mate -- Treasurer

Reed Kramer (chief executive officer and director) was a founder, president and managing editor of Africa News Service, a non-profit U.S.-based agency producing award-winning news and information for broadcast and print media. Under his direction, Africa News Service was a consistent early adopter of communications technologies, and he created and developed Africa News Online - the first as well as the largest Africa-related information source on the Internet. He has reported regularly for the Washington Post, National Public Radio and the BBC and has served as a news consultant and guest for CNN, the "Today" show, Court TV and the NewsHour on public television. His economic and political reporting has appeared widely in major North American and international publications. He is a graduate of Duke University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Amadou Mahtar Ba (president and director) is a marketing and banking executive with Africa-wide experience, including coordinating the privatization of the Panafrican News Agency (PANA) and developing its Internet strategy. He was director of marketing for PANA until 1997, when he became director of communications for BICIS, a French-owned West African financial institution. He also remained active in the process of remaking PANA into a viable, independent news agency. He also has consulted for a variety of international organizations, including the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; has worked on assignment for the London bureau of ABC television (U.S.); and has assisted prize-winning novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembene in exploring collaborative pan-African film production. Mr. Ba, who was educated in Senegal, Spain and France, is widely traveled in Africa, Europe and the United States and is fluent in several languages, including French, English, Spanish, Fulani and Wolof.

Tamela Hultman (chief strategy and content officer and director), also a founder of Africa News Service, has been its chief editorial officer and fundraiser. Among her business development projects for Africa News, she conceived and edited an African cookbook, published by Viking Penguin, which sold over 100,000 copies, and developed a corporate-sponsored series on Africa for National Public Radio (U.S.) - that network's largest institutional collaboration to date - for which she also served as Executive Producer. She also has reported, edited, consulted and produced for a broad range of international media, including: the South African Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC, International Television News (UK), NBC Television (U.S.), the Washington Post and Le Monde Diplomatique (Paris). In addition, she was a Freedom forum Fellow at the University of North Carolina and the founding Director of the Center for Africa and the Media at Duke University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her MA is in Radio, Television and Motion Pictures and her PhD is in Journalism and Mass Communications from the University of North Carolina.

Akwe Amosu (founding executive editor / director, AllAfrica Foundation) has 20 years of expertise in content acquisition and production, project development, and negotiating strategic alliances. Prior to taking a leave to jump-start an African-based broadcast production company in a joint effort with AllAfrica, she was a senior executive at the British Broadcasting Corporation, responsible for a flagship World Service program and for Africa Service feature programs, including sports, arts, educational, documentary and audience-participation shows. Among her special assignments, she forged a joint venture between the BBC and the South African Broadcasting Corporation. She has been an editor at the Financial Times (London), a reporter for West Africa magazine, and a management consultant. She also is a director of a company representing African publishers. She grew up in Nigeria and was educated there and in England.

Kwindla H. Kramer (chief technology officer and director) spent three years as a research associate at the MIT Media Laboratory, where he was a Motorola Fellow. While there, he developed new methods of distributing network functionality and control. He has served as a technology consultant for such companies as Motorola, LEGO, Mattel, Kraft and Intel, and has been building Web-based systems since 1994. Proficient in a number of programming languages, he has extensive experience managing Unix systems, Web servers, and production networks. He developed the programming language for the Lego MindStorms robotic toy lines and wrote the first embedded virtual machine for the Java programming language. After living and traveling in Africa, he graduated Cum Laude from Harvard University with a degree in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and speaks French and Arabic. He has a Masters degree in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.

Matambira Mate (corporate treasurer) has two decades of global experience in a variety of settings. From 1990 to 1999, she was an investment officer in the World Bank, working on infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa. From 1988 to 1990, she was CFO of Meridien Management Services in Zambia (a financial services group comprising leasing, financial advisory services and corporate finance). From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Mate worked as CFO of a Zimbabwe-based conglomerate and as an investment banker with the Merchant Bank of Central Africa. She holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in England, and qualified as a CPA with Deloitte and Touche (then Deloitte Haskins and Sells) in London.