Chris A. LeGrand, MS

President and Chief Executive Officer

Chris LeGrand currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Futures Group Global, LLC. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Futures Group specializes in the design and implementation of public health and social programs for developing countries and has 450 staff spanning the United States and 30 other countries. LeGrand was part of a management team that purchased Futures Group as a divestiture from SRA International in September 2008.

Just prior to Futures Group divestiture, LeGrand served as vice president and deputy director of SRA International’s Global Health Sector, a $300 million business. SRA acquired Constella Group, LLC in August 2007, which created the foundation for SRA’s Global Health Sector.

Prior to SRA’s acquisition of Constella Group, LeGrand served as president of Constella’s public sector business, including its domestic U.S. public health unit and an international health development unit (Futures Group). The two units consisted of 1,000 staff operating around the world and provided integrated health consulting solutions to national and local governments, as well as private foundations involved in enhancing human health. Key clients included the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Agency for International Development, and many foreign governments and international agencies.

Prior to running Constella’s public sector business, LeGrand held various positions at Constella, including chief operating officer, chief technology officer, and division director of its IT and Data Management Division. LeGrand joined Constella in November 1998 and was instrumental in the rapid growth of the business, including expansion into work with new clients and service offerings.

Mr. LeGrand has been the recipient of numerous leadership awards, including Business Journal’s top 40 professionals under age 40 in the N.C. Research Triangle area in 2001 and Business Leader magazine’s top 100 Business Impact Leaders in the Triangle. He was also honored with the Outstanding Service Award by the Drug Information Association in 2007.

Farley R. Cleghorn, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer

Dr. Farley R. Cleghorn is senior vice president and chief technical officer of Futures Group. Dr. Cleghorn has more than 20 years of experience in international development, research, and program implementation. His research has focused on the epidemiology, natural history, prevention, and pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS and related infections in the United States and the developing world. He has made many original contributions to the field of human retrovirology in the areas of HIV-1 epidemiology, natural history, pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment.

Dr. Cleghorn is a leading international expert on HIV/AIDS and the development of research and programs in developing countries to reduce HIV transmission and the impact of AIDS. In 2004 he left the University of Maryland Medical Center to join Futures Group to help broaden its HIV/AIDS portfolio and to develop a set of core activities in service delivery and infectious diseases under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. From 1995 to 2004, Dr. Cleghorn served at the University of Maryland as assistant professor of medicine and epidemiology, deputy director of the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention, and senior scientist in the university’s Institute of Virology directed by Dr. Robert Gallo. During his tenure, he built a division and research program of recognized excellence. He is an expert on HIV/AIDS, surveillance and epidemiology, clinical vaccine trials, studies of HIV virus molecular subtypes and progression to AIDS and antiretroviral treatment, as well as training for capacity building.

Dr. Cleghorn earned an MD (with honors) at the University of the West Indies Faculty of Medical Sciences in 1982 and received an MPH in epidemiology and biostatistics of infectious diseases from Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1992. He is trained in internal medicine and infectious diseases and completed a fellowship in HIV/AIDS at the National Cancer Institute of the U.S. National Institutes of Health in 1992.

He is the recipient of numerous awards for outstanding scientific and leadership contributions to the field of HIV/AIDS, including the Charles C. Shepard award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1998 and for vaccine research and innovative and creative contributions from the HIV Vaccine Trials Network in 2004.

Timothy Schur

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Schur currently serves as chief financial officer for Futures Group, and in that capacity is responsible for all accounting, treasury, contracts, pricing, and financial analysis activities for the company. Mr. Schur has more than 20 years of experience government services and consulting, playing wide ranging roles in corporate business and operational functions as well as line P&L responsibilities. Schur was part of the management team that purchased Futures Group as a divestiture from SRA International in September 2008.

Prior to the Futures Group divestiture, Schur led business operations efforts for SRA’s Global Health Sector and was instrumental in the transition and integration of Constella Group into SRA.

At Constella Group, Mr. Schur served as Group Vice President for Business Operations, ensuring operational consistency, promoting accurate business planning, minimizing operational risk, and organizing information assets across the business.  Prior to this role, he served in various line technical and business capacities, including leading Constella’s IT and data management division. He has served various government agencies in his career, including CDC, NIH, USAID, DoD, and EPA.

Prior to joining Constella, Mr. Schur served as Vice President of Operations for Technology Planning and Management Corp., an information technology solutions company focused on the public sector.

Sarah Clark, PhD

Vice President and Director, Center for Policy and Advocacy

Sarah Clark is a distinguished international development leader with more than 30 years of demonstrated experience in positions within government and philanthropic organizations. She currently serves as vice-president and director, Center for Policy and Advocacy at Futures Group. As the director of the Health Policy Initiative, Task Order One, she provides strategic direction to a $100 million project financed by USAID to improve health policy and outcomes globally and in 20 specific developing countries. She oversees a headquarters-based staff of 45 and overseas staff of approximately 200.

From February 1998 until January 2007, Dr. Clark served as director of the Population Program at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Los Altos, California. There, she helped the foundation accomplish its mission of reducing population growth and protecting reproductive rights by enabling women and their families to determine  the number and timing of their children. She led one of three emblematic grant-making programs of the Packard Foundation and, with Conservation and Science and Children, Family and Communities, presented and defended slates of grants, budget proposals, and results to a multidisciplinary Board of Trustees quarterly meeting. She directed up to 22 staff and managed a grant-making budget of up to $126 million annually.

Before joining the Packard Foundation, she served for more than 22 years as a foreign service officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development. At USAID, her positions were equally divided between Washington—for example, deputy executive secretary in 1996-98 and deputy of the Office of Population and Reproductive Health in the Global Health Bureau   —and international locations: she also served as deputy mission director of the USAID office in Haiti in1994-96 and before that the mission director of the country program in Togo beginning in 1991.

Dr. Clark earned a PhD from Brown University in sociology with a specialization in demography.

Ed Abel, MS

Vice President, Business Development

Edward Abel presents 30 years of experience assisting counterparts throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East in successfully developing, adopting, and implementing family planning, reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS policies and quality services. Mr. Abel has particular expertise in the areas of program management, policy analysis, strategic planning, and information use. The key issue areas for which he has applied this expertise include family planning, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, education, maternal and child nutrition, and the environment.

Mr. Abel currently serves as the vice president of business development for Futures Group. He provides executive leadership for growing business in Futures Group’s international development target markets and focus areas. He is also operationally responsible for Futures Group’s business development department and execution of business development plans and marketing strategies.

Mr. Abel previously served as the senior advisor for data demand and information use for Futures Group and provided overall leadership for these initiatives on the MEASURE Evaluation project. Prior to this, he served as director of operations of the Extending Service Delivery project for Pathfinder International, a five-year, $135 million USAID cooperative agreement to increase utilization of quality reproductive health and family planning services at the community level among poor, at-risk, and other underserved groups. During his first tenure with Futures Group, Mr. Abel held regional and country director positions supporting USAID’s POLICY Project.

Nicole Kamaleson, MS

Senior Director of Global Human Resources

Nicole Kamaleson oversees the strategic operations of the HR function globally.   She ensures there is quality HR administrative expertise functioning globally, there is proper client support to individual employees and managers that balance both their needs and the company interests.  As part of the Executive Team, she plays a strategic partner role to the direction of the organization and assists in the setting up of change strategies for any new initiatives/directions set by the leadership of Futures Group.

Previously, she was the Director of People and Culture for World Vision in Kenya (WVK), where she oversaw the human resources and organizational development units as they contributed to staff/leadership development, organizational development, human resource business processes and overall staff well-being. While working in Kenya, Nicole was part of the organizational growth from $16m annually to $65m and saw a concurrent growth in staff from 489 to more than 900 across Kenya in the five plus years she was there. One of her key contributions was in board development in the Africa Region. Nicole served as the lead facilitator in World Vision International’s organizational governance transition process for WVK. She also coauthored the WVI/VisionFund International’s Corporate Governance Guidelines for over 100 offices globally.

Her tenure in the HR field began during her Masters Degree program when she also joined World Vision in the fall of 1991 in California.  She later relocated to Romania where she continued to contribute to the field of human resources in the Middle East / Eastern Europe Region (MEERO) through consulting. She also coordinated the Pathways to Leadership program, a distance learning master’s degree program in collaboration with Eastern University (Philadelphia, PA), for which she was also an adjunct professor. Before going to Kenya, she supported HR for the International Programs Group of World Vision United States, based in Washington, D.C.

Prior to working with World Vision, Nicole worked in various capacities with IBM and Eastman Kodak in marketing. She then began and completed a master’s degree in human resource development (M.HRD) at Azusa Pacific University in Southern California.

Jamie Hogg

Director of Operations

Jamie Hogg has a diverse professional background with extensive experience in change management, strategic communications, training, and business process re-engineering. Prior to joining Futures Group, Mr. Hogg developed a strong reputation as a business consultant, facilitating changes in technology and business processes in the Federal government and private industry. In the private sector, he led Office Depot’s nationwide rollout of a sales force automation system for 2,000 salespeople. In 2002 Mr. Hogg managed the implementation of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System for the Department of Homeland Security and served as an F-1/M-1 visa policy expert. Mr. Hogg later led the training rollout for the General Services Administration’s FedTraveler.com eTravel program. He also served as a training and change management consultant for Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Commercial Environment, a cargo screening system for U.S. ports of entry. In 2007 Mr. Hogg directed change management and communications for USAID’s implementation of its Global Acquisition and Assistance System, an electronic procurement system for its missions worldwide.

As director of operations for the Futures Group, Mr. Hogg oversees the Program Operations, Information Technology Services, Facilities Management, and Knowledge Management Departments.

Mr. Hogg has a B.S. in history and completed graduate work in linguistics at the University of Virginia. He has worked in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong and performed humanitarian work in China, Thailand, and Myanmar. He speaks fluent Japanese, Korean, and American Sign Language and reads Arabic and Hebrew.