Our Team (partners + private specialist network)

The team behind your engagement

A senior partner owns every engagement end to end. Behind them sits a private network of specialists we match to your goal — so you get exactly the expertise your project needs, and a single point of accountability throughout.

Principals

Iva KaufmanIva Kaufman — Founder & PrincipalLinkedIn ↗
Craig UllmanCraig Ullman — PartnerLinkedIn ↗

Associates

Lubna Dajani

Lubna Dajani LinkedIn ↗

Lubna Dajani is a futurist and systems architect with three decades at the frontier of technology, ethics, and human dignity. Her expertise spans ethical AI, digital identity, and the infrastructure of trust, and she has advised global enterprises — including Microsoft, GE, AT&T, and PwC — on how emerging technology reshapes markets and society. She is the founder of Allternet, a senior member of the IEEE, and a W3C Invited Expert who helps shape the international standards for responsible AI. For IKA, Lubna brings a rare pairing: deep technical command of AI and a systems-level view of how those forces reshape the businesses and communities the firm advises.

Paul Ellingstad

Paul Ellingstad LinkedIn ↗

Paul Ellingstad spent twenty-five years at the intersection of technology and social impact, leading Hewlett-Packard's Office of Global Social Innovation — where he built award-winning global-health partnerships with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, and national governments across Africa and South Asia. He is the founder and managing partner of PTI Advisors, advising leaders driving breakthrough change, and chairs the board of the education charity Teach A Man To Fish. For IKA, Paul brings deep command of cross-sector partnerships and how mission-driven programs scale — currently helping advance the firm's forest-restoration and climate engagements.

LG

Lourdes Garay

Profile coming shortly.

Yonatan Glaser

Yonatan Glaser LinkedIn ↗

Yonatan Glaser is the founder and CEO of un-stuck, a leadership and organizational-development practice built around a "Four Intelligences" model that helps leaders close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. He brings a background in coaching, strategy, and mission-driven institution-building. At IKA, Yonatan leads international business development — opening market relationships in India and structuring cross-border deals — pairing a strategist's eye for deal structure with a coach's instinct for the people and partnerships that make a venture hold together.

Muguette Petoe

Muguette Petoe LinkedIn ↗

Muguette Petoe builds lifestyle brands for real estate, helping developers move beyond square footage into experience — designing self-sufficient communities and "farm-hoods" where wellness, hospitality, and local production are part of the offering rather than amenities bolted on. Her work centers on revenue diversification — spas, retail, food, and programming that give a property multiple income streams and a distinct identity. Through SEED ONE, her sustainability-focused venture, she pairs creative direction with business development for clients entering lifestyle-driven markets.

Keith Rabin

Keith Rabin LinkedIn ↗

Keith Rabin is President of KWR International, where for three decades he has worked at the intersection of governments and private companies — advising on public affairs, investor relations, economic development, and the market-entry and trade-and-investment strategy that cross-border ventures depend on. He brings a particular depth of knowledge in Asia, having helped companies and public institutions navigate the region's markets, partnerships, and policy landscape, and he writes and speaks widely on global economic trends. For IKA, Keith brings command of communications and policy positioning and a rare government-meets-private-sector network — helping translate mission-driven ventures into a clear story for the investors, partners, and public stakeholders they need to reach.

KW

Kiran Waters Website ↗

Kiran Waters is a built-environment consultant who designs spaces around how people actually feel and perform in them. Through Element Sunlight Properties, she works across air quality, acoustics, circadian lighting, and materiality — from master planning down to the granular detail — with productivity, wellness, and return on investment as the measures that matter. Kiran helps IKA's real-estate and institutional clients treat healthy, high-performing buildings as an investment thesis rather than a nicety.

+ more associates matched to each engagement

Partners

Firms we work alongside on joint engagements and cross-referrals, each led by someone we have worked with directly.

Community-Vision Solutions

Real-estate and community development where mission capital meets the ground. The firm has led more than $100 million in housing and community-development work across under-served Washington, DC neighborhoods, covering every phase of real-estate investment, development, finance, and management.

Led by Stephen Shaff ↗

Ecodeo Website ↗

A B Corp climate-communications and video studio. Ecodeo turns clean energy, conservation, and climate-justice work into films people actually watch, for mission-driven organizations and the United Nations. It gives IKA's environmental engagements the storytelling to reach funders that technical reporting never will.

Led by Liz Rubin ↗

KPO Group Website ↗

Capital-project advisory across energy, infrastructure, aerospace, and oil and gas. KPO helps owners secure the capital and the certainty to carry complex, high-stakes projects from idea through roll-out, drawing on four decades of major-project engineering. Where IKA turns when the question is how something large actually gets financed, de-risked, and built.

Led by Steven Keays

The Social Architects Website ↗

Executive personal branding. The firm builds the public profiles and peer communities of C-suite leaders at companies including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, reaching billions of impressions through storytelling rather than broadcast. For IKA's principals and clients, it turns credibility into reach.

Led by Donnetta Campbell ↗

TBLI Group Website ↗

Triple Bottom Line Investing. For three decades TBLI's conferences and global network have convened institutional investors, family offices, and fund managers around sustainable and ESG investing. It is IKA's principal door into impact capital across Europe and beyond.

Led by Robert Rubinstein ↗

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