Engineering World Health

Catherine Peck, CPA
Interim Executive Director

Cathy, a founding board member of Engineering World Health, has served EWH in various capacities from Treasurer to President. She brings more than 25 years of business and accounting experience to EWH as well as extensive non-profit service—both professionally and as a volunteer. Cathy served the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis as board member and Finance Committee Chair. Formerly employed by Perry-Smith & Co and by Coopers & Lybrand (PricewaterhouseCoopers) she is now self-employed as a CPA/consultant and business manager.

Ed Hutton
Managing Director

Ed has held various positions of increasing responsibility and leadership at NCR, AT&T, Ericsson, and Harris. He has also lead successful venture-funded start-up companies and turnaround efforts. His early experiences include living abroad while in the United States Army Medical Corp. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and was inducted into Tau Beta Pi. He is an honor graduate of the US Army Medical Equipment and Optical School.

He lives in Chapel Hill, NC, with his wife Mary Anne. He is an instrument-rated private pilot, loves piano, and is a community volunteer. A high technology leader, Mr. Hutton’s affiliation and associations are a vibrant network of contacts, customers, and colleagues with whom he has worked to build successful teams, relationships, and companies.

Dan Hardy, C.B.E.T., C.R.E.S.
BMET Coordinator for Ghana

The BMET in Ghana project is being implemented by Daniel Hardy, CBET, CRES, as the Country Coordinator for Ghana. Dan has nearly 30 years’ experience in Clinical Engineering and various increasing management responsibilities. He has managed hospital medical equipment maintenance shops and taught BMETs in developing countries before. Dan has worked as a project manager in the field and consultant for HTM and medical equipment in developing countries.

Justin Cooper, M.S.E., C.B.E.T.
BMET Coordinator for Honduras

Justin manages the day-to-day operations of the BMET Training Program in Honduras. He joined EWH in April 2009 as a Student Programs Coordinator, and is excited to be involved in training BMETs abroad since July 2010. He has worked with EWH in Haiti, Ethiopia, Honduras, Ghana, and Rwanda. Justin has taught electronics and computer skills at the university level in the US and through the EWH BMET training program in Rwanda and Honduras. He completed his graduate degree at Tulane University in April 2009 with a Masters thesis project in robotics.

Ben Fleishman, B.S.
Summer Institute Coordinator

Ben joined EWH in November 2011 after working in Tanzania as an on the ground coordinator for the Summer Institute. He is an alumni of the 2009 Tanzania Summer Institute and held leadership roles in Engineers With Out Borders at Clemson University, where he received his BS in BioEngineering in 2009. His senior design project was a low cost disposable scalpel for the developing world. He has worked with students in Vietnam, Mexico and Clemson teaching seminars, labs and leading research projects. In his spare time Ben enjoys spending time outdoors and technical projects such as building bikes and modifying cars. His unique combination of student leadership experience and technical skills makes him the ideal choice to manage and expand our Summer Institute programs. 

Heather Kraudel, B.S.
Development Manager

Heather brings 7 years of experience in the nonprofit sector with her focus on event management and corporate relations. Heather started her nonprofit work in Washington, DC where she held positions with Georgetown University Law Center and the American Legacy Foundation, a public health Foundation created in 1999 out of the landmark Master Settlement Agreement between the tobacco industry, 46 state governments and five U.S. territories. Most recently she served as the Director of Special Events for the American Lung Association in Raleigh, NC where she managed large fundraising events and smaller donor cultivation events. Her experience makes her the perfect fit to help expand the reach of EWH on all levels.

Terri Kiesenhofer, B.S.
Development Assistant

Terri joins our team with over 6 years of experience in management, sales, fundraising, and training in a variety of corporate and nonprofit settings. More recently, Terri has been an active volunteer for the Susan G. Komen foundation raising funds and awareness through solicitations, fundraising events, and community events. Terri’s experience, and passion for our mission, will help expand the reach of the development efforts of EWH.

Rony E. Meza, M.B.A.
BMET On-the-Ground Coordinator for Honduras

Rony is native from Tegucigalpa, M.D.C. He joined EWH in August 2010, and has held various positions leading operations and programs for several financial institutions: The World Bank, UNDP and several US non-profit organizations in Honduras. He loves to work with American professionals who are committed to help the poor people of his country with whom he has led several humanitarian mission trips to assist victims of natural disasters nationwide, and his highest desire is to apply his faith in God, hard work and loyalty to give his family the opportunities he didn’t have.

Milton Axcel Cruz Aguilar
Administrative Assistant and Curriculum Translator, BMET Honduras

Axcel was born in 1976 in Honduras. He moved to the U.S. in 1992 where he completed high school in 1994 and joined the US Navy in 1996. He was stationed in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan on board the USS Independence (CV-62) and was an ABE (Aviation Boatswain-mate Equipment) specialized on Catapults. In 2001, Axcel left active duty to start working as an independent business man in Japan and Colombia for 9 years. In 2009, he started working in INFOP in Tegucigalpa, in the Public Relations and Protocol as a Protocol Officer, where he was recruited to work with EWH on the BMET Training Program in Honduras. He is currently getting a Degree as a Language Teacher specialized in English and Spanish.

Steven Goeby, B. Eng (Mech), Dip. Ed
BMET Coordinator for Cambodia

Steven is a Mechanical Engineer with over a decade of experience in Design and Development having worked for Ford and GM as well as a number of Automotive Tier 1 suppliers. He is also a qualified and experienced Secondary Teacher in Physics, Science and Mathematics. After moving to Cambodia to live with his family in 2009 he developed a deep affection for the people and the country - and now as Country Coordinator for the Cambodia BMET program, he brings a passion for training and engineering, as well as strong knowledge of the local culture.

Lida Seng
Curriculum Translator for BMET Cambodia

Lida Seng graduated from the Institute of Foreign Languages, Cambodia, in 2011 with a Bachelor Degree in English Language and has been doing freelance translation and interpretation work since. She is studying to become a Pharmacist and works part time as an Assistant Pharmacist at Royal Rattanak Private Hospital. She joined EWH in mid 2012 as a translator working primarily on curriculum material for the BMET course.

Sarith Sam An Hun
On-the-Ground Coordinator, Cambodia

Sarith joined EWH on March 2011 as a part time translator also assisting with administrative tasks. He is now a full time On The Ground Coordinator. Sarith brings 16 years experience working within non-profit NGO hospitals in Cambodia and 3 years teaching in the national medical school. He also currently serves as Chairman of the Cambodian Association of Radiological Technologists and as such has strong links in with the major hospitals across the country.

Theodore Amponsah
On-the-Ground Coordinator, Ghana

Theodore joined the Ministry of Health on the 3rd December, 2001 as an Technical Engineer. He completed a series of in-service technical training as well as manufacture training programs in Spain, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and few African countries. In the year 2006, he furthered his education to obtain the BE. in Biomedical Engineering and rose to the current position of Biomedical Engineering Manager. He is the head of Life Support Department of Biomedical Engineering Unit (BEU) under the Ministry of Health and joined EWH on 6th June, 2011 as OTCG, Ghana.