WE'RE WHITELABEL

What’s in a name? We chose ours carefully.

WhiteLabel: to outsource a product or service and label as your own.

We liked the idea of this. We want to stand behind the changemakers. No egos involved, becoming part of your team, helping you do what you do better.

Collectively, we have launched, transformed, grown, and raised funding for scores of successful businesses and initiatives. We blend rigorous problem-solving with bold creativity to deliver sound, original solutions at every stage.

Our team is a cosmopolitan crew of executive-level operators, financiers, entrepreneurs, policy experts, educators, thinkers, doers, and innovators. We are veterans of dynamic environments who have more than 100 years of C-suite experience.

MEET OUR FOUNDING PARTNERS

Christina Campbell-Zausner

Christina is a seasoned C-suite leader of nonprofits, social enterprises and multi-stakeholder initiatives across the globe. At WhiteLabel, Christina partners with mission-driven organizations to help them achieve greater sustainability. She often works with organizations in flux, combining business strategy, advocacy, risk, and governance approaches to help clients adapt to increasing demands that they operate more like for-profits.

  • During her early career in the financial sector, Christina played critical roles while at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) in oversight of major acquisitions, dissolutions, and bank recapitalizations. Out of this crisis work, she learned to appreciate the importance of minding an organization’s reputational risk and operating liquidity. In the years that followed, Christina helped launch, fund, and/or turnaround several purpose-driven entities, projects, and programs.  Christina also served on the executive team of a trade association. While there, she helped lead the organization, with pivotal roles on annual strategic planning exercises, responsibility for the Policy Committee, working groups, and coalitions.  As Head of Advocacy and Industry Analysis, she grew a lean government relations and research operation into a leader in a competitive field with coverage at the international, federal, state, and local levels, managing as many as two dozen campaigns at a time. In that role, Christina regularly represented the association and its coalition members in multi-stakeholder negotiations on key stakeholder campaigns in conversations with Senators and Congresspeople, regulatory principals, administrative officials, private sector leaders, and the media.  

    Over the course of her career, she has also created extensive technical, trend analysis pieces, and editorial content, including serving as the editor and creator of multiple newsletters, with circulations from 10,000 to 200,000.

    Christina has lectured at several universities, including University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, and Georgetown University. She has also published op-eds and articles in ImpactAlpha, American Banker, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. 

    She enjoys combining her interests in the arts and community-building serving as a board member of Art Defined Productions, a platform for supporting and showcasing NYC-based performing artists and writers since 2010, and Feed Media Arts Center, a collective devoted to the production, exhibition, and preservation of all forms of media art since 2022. 

    Christina graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a B.A. in Slavic Studies and attended Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Jérôme Tagger

Jérôme Tagger has more than 25-years of experience as a social entrepreneur, C-suite Executive, and sustainable finance advocate.

At WhiteLabel, Jerome works with nonprofit leaders, social entrepreneurs, international organizations, and financial institutions across the launch, grow, transform, and fund practice areas.

  • Prior to joining WhiteLabel, Jérôme helped launch, fund, and grow leading organizations in sustainable finance advocacy. As founding Chief Operating Officer, he helped launch the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, growing the organization eightfold in staff and revenue. As Director of Membership and Operations, Jerome helped grow the Global Impact Investing Network, through new programs and global events.  As Chief Revenue Officer at ImpactAlpha, he helped facilitate transformative strategic redirection and the launch of an anchor newsletter product, leading to seed funding. Most recently, he led a think tank, Preventable Surprises, which he transformed from a UK social enterprise to a US-based 501(c)3, expanding activities, growing funding five-fold. 

    Jérôme has worked on five continents with stakeholders ranging from public pension funds to foundations, and social enterprises to technology and media companies. He has worked in and with public and private companies, startups, and nonprofits.

    Jérôme has written or contributed to several seminal reports on sustainable finance, ESG, impact, and the Sustainable Development Goals – on topics such as corporate policy capture, refugees and human rights, women’s health, and biodiversity. He has frequently offered commentary to the business and trade press, including the Financial Times, the Economist, Reuters, PEI Media, and many others. Jerome is a frequent, and honest, speaker and facilitator at conferences and online events.

    Jérôme holds a master’s degree from the ESSEC Graduate School of Business in France.

    In his personal time, Jérôme serves on the board of Ensemble Ipse, a contemporary music collective in New York City, and APOPO US, a nonprofit that trains animals to detect landmines and tuberculosis. He previously served on the Board of Suguba, a business accelerator platform in West Africa, and was Treasurer of a Parent Teacher Association in Brooklyn.

Steve Zausner

Steve has more than 25-years of experience as a C-suite executive, fundraising professional, investor, educator, and hands-on operator who has helped launch, transform, grow, and fund many initiatives and enterprises across the globe.

  • On the launch side, while working in investment management, Steve created and ran four research departments on three different continents. As a fractional operating executive/board member he has worked with dozens of start-ups, helping them solve their most vexing problems. For foundations, governments, and nonprofits, he has helped launch initiatives and developed several benchmark “innovative” financial structures. He has also collaborated with several innovation consulting firms on launching new products, programs, and services, including Fahrenheit 212 and Mach49, where he was an SVP of Special Projects and CFO-in-residence. Steve has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at Columbia University’s NYSERDA program, and a mentor for the National I-Corps program, working on technology transfers.

    On the growth side, Steve helped build and run five asset management firms, several of which turned into multi-billion-dollar enterprises. He has also worked as an executive-in-residence or interim executive at many commercial firms, nonprofits, and social enterprises, helping them optimize operations, develop sustainable business models, grow new initiatives/business lines, and find scale.

    On the transform side, Steve has led turnarounds at nonprofits, social enterprises, and commercial firms, including one of the world’s largest financial institutions, where he led the restructuring of a multi-billion-dollar division post a major scandal.

    On the funding side, Steve has sourced, analyzed, structured, and successfully placed or exited more than $10 billion across the spectrum of capital, all asset classes, industries and in more than 65 countries. As an early-stage investor, he has several IPOs and unicorns to his credit.

    Steve began his professional career as a journalist, working as a staffer at Forbes, The Associated Press, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Albuquerque Tribune. His writing and commentary on economics, finance, entrepreneurship, and, uh, hockey, has appeared in many publications including: The Economist, The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and The Hockey Digest.

    Steve has been an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh Graduate School of Foreign Service, and University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy where he taught highly rated classes on finance, social impact, and entrepreneurship.

    Steve has a Master’s Degree in International Finance and Business from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs, where he was an International Fellow and Dean’s Scholar, and a BA, with High Honors, from New York University where he was a Founder’s Day Award Winner and University Scholar.

Steven Kenney

Steven Kenney has advised government, corporate, and nonprofit sector organizations for thirty years on strategy development and implementation, strategic foresight, organizational change, and leader development – on how to create their future. His work helps clients define their direction and adapt their plans, people, processes, and more to achieve their greatest success. He has led advisory engagements for Fortune 50, mid-cap, and startup companies in the private sector; dozens of governments’ agencies; and leaders of high-impact nonprofits and philanthropies.

  • Steven’s work envisioning and preparing his clients for their futures has encompassed providing the baseline for a new strategy for “Responsible Care,” the global program to continuously improve the chemical industry's health, environmental, and safety performance; to charting alternative pathways for accelerating the rollout of electric mobility solutions in the Middle East between now and 2040; to helping a US government environmental agency reimagine its operational processes, partnership strategies, and research agenda to take on the emerging future challenges of water resources management and conservation; and much more.

    Alongside his role in WhiteLabel Impact, Steven is also the director of the Strategic Foresight Initiative program at The Middle East Institute (MEI), a leading Washington DC-based think tank. There he has designed and led “megatrend” and alternative futures studies for the United Nations, and he is MEI’s representative in the Global Futures Society, a consortium of more than forty strategic foresight practitioner organizations, established in 2023 by the Dubai Future Foundation.

    Prior to WhiteLabel, Steven founded the consulting firm Foresight Vector. In his career before that, he was an Executive in Residence at N2Growth, a global leadership advisory services firm; a Vice President at Monitor 360 (formed from Global Business Network, the strategy firm of Art of the Long View author Peter Schwartz); and a Partner with a fifteen-year tenure in Toffler Associates, the executive advisory firm founded by world-renowned futurist Alvin Toffler.
    Steven holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California and a Master’s Degree from Columbia University and attended Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

MEET OUR CO-CONSPIRATORS

Kaitlin Archambault

Kaitlin Archambault is the founder and CEO of the Open Future Coalition, helping the global impact ecosystem strengthen its collaborative capacity by empowering the transparent exchange of capital, skills, and knowledge in service of measurable impact. She is a systems architect, designer, creative director, and communications strategist with over a decade of experience growing and leading creative and product teams.

  • Kaitlin started her career in public media, branding and growing the reach and funding of NPR and PBS programs as a part of The Futuro Media Group. In 2013, she went on to found Brooklyn-based creative studio Incendiary Designs, which has built and grown nonprofit and social good brands on five continents. Kaitlin has worked to advance education policy and grown thought leadership programs for placement in outlets like the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Hill.

    With experiences that range from designing institutional-grade financial services platforms to leading global organizations through complex rebrands, Kaitlin recognizes that a truly design-driven approach takes into account issues of governance, compliance, and ethics. These days, she spends much of her time at the intersection between user experience and behavioral economics to ensure that emerging technologies like blockchain and artificial intelligence are thoughtfully constructed for the greater good.

    In 2021, she founded the Open Future Coalition. They recently launched Open Impact, a network where impact organizations, donors, and community members can come together to match the right organizations with the right resources to maximize impact. They are also conveners, facilitating design sprints, working groups, and community salons to advance the shared aims of the impact ecosystem, and developers of a growing set of tools and practices for ecosystem approaches to funding.

    Kaitlin’s background is in public art and grassroots movement building: she was part of the initial press push and benefit campaign around the imprisonment of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, and has taught art therapy at the women’s jail on Rikers Island.

Cy Keener

Cy Keener is an artist, technologist, explorer, who produces work in the realm of climate activism. Cy designs and develops sensor technology that has broad commercial and practical uses. He merges code, sculpture, electrical engineering, and design to build sensors that can survive harsh environments. Most recently, Cy worked with a WhiteLabel client, BirdBox, helping them design, develop and implement their next generation sensor technology that contributes to the welfare of free-range birds. 

  • Cy’s goals are to make the intangible tangible and the invisible visible—bridging the physical distance of remote environments through data visualization and enabling a human-scale experience of climate change. Cy’s work has been exhibited at elite institutions in nine countries, including Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Cy has received 14 fellowships, awards, and residencies, including from the National Science Foundation (NSF); the Office of Naval Research (ONR); and from University of Maryland faculty grant programs.

    Cy has worked extensively on issues related to resilience in response to climate change, most recently with the International Arctic Buoy Programme (IABP), which maintains a network of drifting buoys on the Arctic Ocean. During eight trips to the Arctic, Cy deployed 44 custom art and science instruments now serving as the primary weather and climate repository for the Arctic Ocean. In 2021, he participated in an IABP fieldwork campaign, supported by the Royal Danish Navy, to tag 50 icebergs off the west coast of Greenland to improve iceberg path prediction models. 

    As part of Public Sediment, a team of landscape architects, designers, civil and coastal engineers, Cy helped win a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to develop community-based solutions focused on strengthening the San Francisco Bay Area's resilience to sea-level rise, severe storms, and flooding.

    When not helping out at WhiteLabel, Cy is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Emerging Technology in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland. Cy has a BA, in Classics and Philosophy from Colorado College, a master’s in architecture from University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Fine Arts from Stanford University. 

Elizabeth Knox

Elizabeth is a founder, consultant, and coach, dedicated to helping organizations create sustainable, high-performing workplaces that lead to long-term success. With expertise in leadership development, organizational design, and hybrid work strategies, Elizabeth partners with leaders to reimagine the systems and processes within their organizations to support both mission and well-being. She empowers teams to align their goals, habits, and culture for measurable impact.

  • Elizabeth began her career in national security and public administration, serving as an Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency. Following this she joined the consultancy Toffler Associates, where she provided executive advisory services to clients navigating significant organizational changes. At CSRA, an information technology services provider to U.S. government clients, she managed programs with budgets exceeding $50 million, supporting strategic planning and execution for the Department of Defense and other agencies.

    In 2017, Elizabeth founded MatchPace, a consultancy dedicated to helping organizations reimagine work by structuring environments that foster focus, efficiency, and sustainable success. Her work focuses on enabling leaders and teams to operate at a healthy pace, emphasizing outcomes, trust, and accountability. A sought-after expert in organizational design and flexible work strategies, she has collaborated with clients across sectors to build sustainable systems that retain talent and maximize impact.

    Elizabeth’s career reflects her deep commitment to helping organizations thrive by aligning priorities with mission-driven goals. As an author, coach, and speaker, she draws on her expertise in policy analysis, leadership development, and conflict resolution to empower leaders and teams. She holds a Master's in Public Administration from Syracuse University's Maxwell School, and certifications in Conflict Resolution, Project Management, and Diversity Coaching. Elizabeth is also a proud mother of four and is passionate about reimagining work today to create a better future for the next generation.

Julie Davitz

Julie Davitz is the founder and CEO of Plus Media Solutions, Inc. She was previously the Head of Impact Solutions for BNP Paribas/Bank of the West, the 8th largest private bank in the world, where she was responsible for developing the bank's strategic wealth efforts towards sustainability and impact.

  • Earlier in her career, Julie launched her own global development and philanthropy consulting firm specializing in efficient, thoughtful, and effective strategic planning for donors and grantees and working with hundreds of organizations from the US to India to Africa. She was also the Director of Development at the UCSF Medical Center Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases , and spent more than a decade as the Executive Director of the Silver Giving Foundation, a family foundation focused on improving and expanding educational opportunities for youth at risk in the San Francisco Bay Area.

    Julie’s perspective and deep experience with nonprofits, for-profit companies and UHNW philanthropists and investors have led to her being an in-demand speaker and panel participant at major conferences. She recognizes the urgency of interest, the rise in viable solutions and the technological delivery mechanisms. Her vision is to connect these three to offer scalable actions in order to address the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Matt Kasdin

Matt is a lawyer with a wealth of legal, compliance, sustainability and ESG, government affairs, impact investing, business, and human rights experience across the globe. He is a member of the Legal 500 GC Powerlist and was also named to the inaugural Legal 500 Green GC Powerlist.

  • Matt began his career at the leading international law firm Latham & Watkins, based out of the New York, London and Moscow offices advising on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. He has advised clients including leading investment banks, private equity firms, listed companies, the World Bank, and the IFC, as well as at the UN Global Compact and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiatives, where he drafted foundational governance documents.

    Matt is the longtime general counsel for Impact Investment Exchange, a platform focused on bringing capital to the Global South. Matt is also the legal and strategy advisor for DQ Institute, the standard for digital intelligence adopted by IEEE, OECD and WEF.

    He lectures on corporate ethics and sustainability at Singapore Management University. He has a B.A. in History and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University.  

    Matt completed judicial clerkships at the High Court of Zimbabwe and the United Nations Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.  He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship which he completed at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bulgaria. Prior to attending law school, Matt spent a year writing about social and environmental issues in Central America based out of Costa Rica.


Kristen Davis

Kristen draws on her two decades of experience in international media groups, notably as Director of IT and Innovation at the New York Times International, to help clients increase their organizational agility and resilience. She created her consultancy CinqC to work with organizations across sectors focusing on three core areas: business strategy, leadership and culture, and communications.

  • Kristen is of British origin and has been living and working in Paris, France since October 2000. Over her career, Kristen has gained deep business, technology, and people skills and established a diverse global expert network. In her work in business strategy, she works across the ecosystem from start-ups and scale-ups to multinationals, governments, and institutions, helping them understand global multi-sector disruption and how technology and consumers are evolving, and creating innovative and actionable business models and strategies adapted to their enterprise goals and sector risks. She leads efforts on adapting and integrating new technologies and techniques in start-ups and established organizations, taking organizations outside their comfort zone to evolve or expand, and quickly testing ideas or bringing products to market.

    As a leadership and culture advisor and change-implementer, Kristen is experienced and skilled in facilitating, coaching, and mentoring to enable all levels of an organization to take more risks, make better decisions and mistakes, share meaningful feed-forward, have hard conversations, and remain robust and resilient in our ever changing world. She is an expert designer and facilitator of bespoke workshops for Transformation and Innovation teams looking to learn from failure and build an innovation mindset and practices. Kristen is also a globally recognized leader in developing and facilitating VIP/C-Suite level events, specializing in business, tech/science, and sustainability. Her expertise ranges from creating clear and engaging content that is pertinent to the audience and ideally live and interactive, to curating speakers, emceeing and moderating, hosting livestreams, ghost-writing, and coaching C-suite tech  business executives on communications. 

    Kristen’s clients have included La Poste, Google GNI Fund, Cartier, NUMA, Storytek, Columbia University, Bolt, STADIEM Accelerator, LVMH, VivaTech, L’Oréal, ChangeNOW, StartUp Estonia, the British Embassy in Paris, and many others.  Her skills in using strategy, technology, culture and content for scale and impact are also put to use on several boards and non-profit organizations, notably as the US Chair of APOPO HeroRATs, an organization that trains rats and dogs to detect landmines, explosives, and tuberculosis.

James Vanreusel

James is the founder and CEO of Vanreusel Ventures, leading a team of CFO consultants and financial analysts that help startups, SMBs, and nonprofits scale their businesses globally. His 20-year finance career has taken him halfway around the world, from his birthplace in Belgium to education in the UK and Texas, to Wall Street, to microfinance in the South Pacific, to his current practice in San Francisco.

  • James moved to the UK for a Mathematics and Accounting degree at the University of Kent and then to Rice University Business School in Texas for an MBA in Finance & Marketing. Within 14 months, he had switched coasts to join the new Wall Street office of Bank Of America Securities, where he was promoted to VP at 26. He generated $8 million in annual sales through his relationships with hedge and mutual funds.

    During this time, he also leveraged primary and secondary capital markets, selling IPOs to a client base of Wall Street investors. By analyzing deal books and taking offerings out on the road, he learned the ropes of going public – from the dual vantage point of investors and CEOs.

    In 2008, James moved into consultancy – specializing in private equity with Grassroots Capital, then asset management with Blue Orchard Finance. His time was spent raising capital, building a portfolio- and holding company models – with a strong focus on microfinance. A year later, he switched from investments to the corporate world. Newly qualified as a CFA Charterholder, he became CFO for SPBD – a microfinance network in the South Pacific, where he launched and operated microfinance banks in Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands. He also created a holding company based in Singapore, delivering 600% growth.

    In 2014, everything changed again as he moved back to San Francisco and set up Vanreusel Ventures, working with for-profit and nonprofit clients headquartered in the US with extensive international operations, helping them grow and scale by building teams and systems that will expand with the business - all while developing the finance skills and mindset of the CEO.

Michael McDermott

An entrepreneur with more that 20-years of C-suite experience in operations, finance, and human resources, Michael has a proven track record in launching, transforming, growing and funding businesses for Fortune 500 companies, startups, nonprofits, and mission-driven enterprises.

  • Launch:  As a veteran of BCG and Mach49, Michael spearheaded the launch of numerous new initiatives for large, global firms. His hands-on approach often involved acting as interim COO, building operational infrastructure, and recruiting top talent to ensure the venture's success. One example: At BCG, Michael helped incubate the idea for Fern Health, a chronic pain management system. Upon launch, he took on the role of founding COO, establishing operational excellence and recruited the core team, including the CEO, and his replacement as COO.

    Transform & Fund: Serving as a fractional or full-time COO, Michael has transformed many struggling businesses into thriving enterprises through strengthening operations, creating robust HR practices and preparing and positioning firms to raise capital. At Altoida he instituted HR systems and hiring practices that allowed the company to scale efficiently across 4 countries. At Coresight he improved pricing using a data driven methodology to segment customers and tier prices to increase revenues.

    Growth: His strategic acumen and operational expertise have consistently driven revenue and profit growth for some of the world's leading firms. including Amazon, PeopleSoft, and Catalina Marketing, where he led digital transformation efforts, spearheaded successful acquisitions and was instrumental in the firm’s $2.5 billion sale to Berkshire Partners.

    Michael’s education includes an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and an SB in Physics from MIT. He is also a SHRM Certified HR Professional, underscoring his commitment to organizational excellence and effective human capital management.pathways for accelerating the rollout of electric mobility solutions in the Middle East between now and 2040; to helping a US government environmental agency reimagine its operational processes, partnership strategies, and research agenda to take on the emerging future challenges of water resources management and conservation; and much more. In all of his work, he helps leadership teams define their direction and adapt their plans, people, processes, and more to achieve their greatest success.

Bob Nunnally

Bob Nunnally is a seasoned C-suite executive, business consultant, and leadership coach with experience across for- and non-profit organizations as well as Federal and local governments. His expertise includes strategic planning, operational efficiency, market entry, and organizational development. His 45+ years of hands-on experience include turning around failing investments, bringing ideas on a napkin to financial success, and helping leaders create high performing teams.

  • Bob completed a 23-year military career in the U.S. Air Force where he served as a fighter pilot and commander of various combat organizations, a cockpit and classroom instructor, and on Capitol Hill in legislative affairs. Following his military career, Bob joined Toffler Associates, the consultancy founded by futurist Alvin Toffler, supporting multi-billion dollar organizations develop and implement strategy, governance, and process improvement frameworks. Following his time at Toffler Associates, Bob led a tech startup in the earliest days of the social media market. As CEO of that investment-backed company, Bob helped create and market an award-winning app that merged email, RSS, and instant messaging into a multi-media corporate communication tool. After the company’s exit, Bob served as President of one IT services company and COO of another, overseeing all company operations and contract delivery. In 2016, Bob received the SmartCEO Magazine Executive Management Award.

    Today, Bob serves on the Board of the University of Georgia Franklin College. His publications include Learning Through History, GovernmentCIO Magazine, Washington Technology, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Georgia Magazine. Bob is active in professional and charity organizations, contributes to national and regional media, and is a noted keynote speaker. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, and the Air War College. He resides in Atlanta.