Currently the Sr. Director for Social innovations for Mercy Corps, Andrew previously served in director roles for Mercy Corps for 7 Years in the Middle East, responsible for leading teams of up to 100 people and annual budgets of $10M; Built partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Cisco & ThoughtWorks; Led design and fundraising for MC’s largest ever program ($100M) in Gaza.

A Product Manager at Google since 2006 leading their crisis response initiatives, e-commerce solutions, network infrastructure and maps. On leave from Google, Prem is pursuing an MBA at Harvard while also teaching a technical product management course.

Mike Maerz serves on the Mercy Corps board where he chairs the Social Innovations Committee and is on the Executive Committee. He has served in key roles at a number of leading Oregon technology companies, most notably as Vice President and General Manager of Internet Products Division and Network Products Division at Intel Corporation. He was a co-founder CEO of venture capital backed etrieve, Inc., and former CEO of Intel-Time Warner backed T