Samuel Suraphel is currently Manager, Technology Partnerships at IYF. He leads the Africa roll-out of the organization’s blended learning curriculum for entrepreneurship, Build Your Business(BYB), which was developed in partnership with Microsoft. This includes managing the selection of training of organizations in multiple launch countries for the roll-out, follow-on support, and M&E development. Additionally, he works closely on a portfolio of employability initiatives which include skills training in South Africa and ICT-based employment in Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda. Previously, he served as a Program Manager for BridgeIT, a program that uses mobile technology to transmit educational video content to under-resourced primary schools in Tanzania. Samuel holds a Bachelors degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Masters in Business Administration from the Darden School of Business.