Brooke Partridge
President and CEO

Brooke Partridge is a thought leader in the use of technology solutions to accelerate business growth in emerging markets. She is a frequent speaker on topics such as sustainable technology growth, new business models, and scaling mobile services (mServices) such as mHealth. Ms Partridge has been recently featured and quoted in publications such as The Huffington Post, The Economist, and The New York Times.

Brooke Partridge is CEO and founder of Vital Wave Consulting. She created the company to further emerging markets as a new discipline in business management. Ms. Partridge has led the company’s development of innovative game-changing strategies needed to capitalize on new business dynamics in new markets. Through the firm’s Health and Technology practice, Vital Wave Consulting has engaged with organizations including the United Nations and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Bank’s Global ICT Unit, and a host of multinational technology and pharmaceutical firms. In addition, Ms. Partridge has led a number of high-profile capacity-building initiatives. She facilitated a series of workshops for the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia to create, with a particular focus on maternal and child health, an eHealth roadmap and requirements framework the government can use to deploy interventions through Health Extension Workers in the country. For over 20 years Ms. Partridge has been a leader in emerging-market and emerging-technology businesses. Previously, she was the Business Director of the Emerging Market Solutions Organization at HP where she built the team that designed and commercialized HP’s first technology solutions for developing economies. Throughout her career, Ms. Partridge has brought to market a wide variety of innovative technology solutions, managing all business functions including marketing, operations and R&D.

Ms. Partridge has lived and worked in several developing economies, including Perú, Chile and México, and spent extended periods of time in India, Africa and Western Europe. She lectured in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and holds a Master’s of Pacific International Affairs from UC San Diego, as well as a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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