James Krejci
Mr. James Krejci is a co-founder and President of The Emergence Group. Jim has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and Economics from Denison University, and an MBA in
International Finance from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). He is fluent in both Russian and German.
Mr. Krejci has over 15-years experience in international corporate leadership positions, both with Fortune 500 companies and with smaller firms. He has extensive experience in government contracting, having led financial operations for Burson-Marseller’s Emerging Markets Practice. While residing in the former Soviet Union for five years, he was the founding CFO for TV3 Russia, a nationwide TV network. Jim has extensive experience in international tax, establishing corporate operations in foreign countries, training foreign nationals, and engaging with financial institutions.
For many years, Mr. Krejci partnered with private investors, the U.S. government and multilateral institutions in the area of economic development. While establishing several businesses in emerging markets, he realized that in many instances successful economic development efforts would require both rule-of-law and criminal justice sector reforms. To meet these needs, James and Bill Baker established The Emergence Group, which is committed to partnering with host country governments to build effective, sustainable and democratically oriented criminal justice systems.
Ambassador Donald Planty
Ambassador Planty joined The Emergence Group early in 2006 as a strategic planner and advisor on international rule of law programs. He is also President of his own consulting company, Planty & Associates LLC, and was a co-founder of Port Security International (PSI), a firm that works on homeland security solutions. The Ambassador’s 37-year professional career includes public service at the local, state and national levels and private sector experience.
Prior to establishing Planty & Associates, Ambassador Planty was Senior Managing Director at ManattJones Global Strategies (2001-2003), an international consulting firm in Washington, D. C. From 2003-2004 he was Chairman of the Board of the Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production, an independent organization dedicated to eliminating sweatshop conditions in apparel factories. From 1999-2001, he served as the Executive Director of Caribbean/Latin American Action (C/LAA), a non-profit organization that promotes US trade and investment in Latin America and the Caribbean.
From 1996-1999, Ambassador Planty was the U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala. As Ambassador to Guatemala, he was instrumental in facilitating the historic 1996 Peace Accords that ended four decades of internal conflict in that country. He is a 30-year veteran of the U.S. diplomatic service and is an expert on Latin American affairs and European security issues. In addition to Guatemala, Ambassador Planty has lived and worked in Panama, Chile, Mexico, Norway, Italy and Spain at key periods in the modern history of these nations.
From 1981-1983 and again from 1986-1989, Ambassador Planty helped negotiate the Treaty of Friendship, Defense and Cooperation between the U.S. and Spain and was awarded the State Department’s Superior Honor Award for his work on the negotiations. Ambassador Planty is considered one of the foremost experts on Spain and most experienced base rights negotiators.
Ambassador Planty has two books in progress, one on the Guatemalan peace process and a second on US-Vatican relations.
Jorge Sapoznikow
Dr. Jorge Sapoznikow, a Colombian national, enjoyed a 28-year career with the Inter-American Development Bank. From 2000-2007 he was the Chief of the Modernization of the State Division, for the region that includes Mexico, Central America, Belize, Panama, The Dominican Republic and Haiti. The Modernization of the State Division was in charge of the Bank’s operation in areas of Anticorruption, Citizen Security, Judicial Modernization, Legislative Modernization, and Fiscal Areas of reform.
Prior to his role as Division Chief, he was the Chief of Operations for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua in the Regional Operations Department for Central America of the IDB. In this role, he was responsible for the Bank’s lending program in those countries, and for undertaking the organization of donor consultative group meetings. Previously, he was Chief of Operations for El Salvador, Nicaragua and Panama. Before that he was the Chief of Programs of the Plans/Programs Department where he was responsible for the Bank’s lending strategy for the Caribbean and Southern Cone countries of South America. Dr. Sapoznikow joined the IDB in 1980 as an economist in the Project Analysis Department and later became the Chief of Urban Development in that Department.
Prior to joining the IDB, he served as the Director of the graduate program in economics at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. In addition, he lectured and conducted economic research at that university.
Dr. Sapoznikow received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Universidad de Los Andes in 1970, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Stanford University in 1977 and 1980, respectively. During the academic year 1979-1980, he was a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Center of Yale University.
Dr. Sapoznikow has participated in numerous development conferences and seminars and has published widely in his field, particularly in the areas of population, labor and employment. He has also lectured at Johns Hopkins University on contemporary international economics.
David Bodie
Mr. Bodie serves The Emergence Group as a Director. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Forensic Science from Indiana University and a Master of Science Degree in Forensic Science from Antioch University. He has lectured at colleges, universities, police conferences, training seminars and at police academies in the U.S. and abroad. Dave’s career includes 35 years of domestic and international law enforcement experience including substantial international police development experience while working for the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Army. As a police consultant he has assisted more than 300 domestic and international law enforcement agencies by providing them with both consulting and training services.
Dave’s geographic focus includes the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union and the countries of both Central and South America. His functional areas of expertise include: organizational design and development; police standards development; police operations; law enforcement managerial and supervisory training; police academy development and operations; training design, delivery and evaluation; anti-human trafficking programs; peacekeeping and stability operations; community oriented democratic policing initiatives; anti-corruption strategies and initiatives; and the implementation of human rights and human dignity programs.
Dave is an amateur videographer and loves to travel. He is married and his wife is also a retired law enforcement officer and he has one son, Ethan.
Cliff Keeling
Mr. Keeling serves as a Director with The Emergence Group. Cliff has an Associates of Science Degree from Massasoit Community College in Brockton Massachusetts and a Bachelor of Science Degree from Stonehill College in Eastern Massachusetts. Additionally he is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico Virginia and the Command Training Institute at Babson College in Waltham Massachusetts.
While working as a Technical Adviser in East Timor & Indonesia for the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) Mr. Keeling was directly responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of six separate justice reform projects. As Acting Director for ICITAP Indonesia in the summer of 2005, Cliff had the additional responsibility for the over-sight of ten ICITAP law enforcement development projects and Embassy liaison. In 2006, Cliff served as Project Director of the BE/TEG Police Anti-Corruption project in Kiev, Ukraine.
Cliff currently serves as the Project Director of the USG-ENP Project partnering with the Egyptian National Police on a variety of management and supervisory initiatives. The over-reaching goal of all the projects Cliff has been associated with is to migrate National Police Forces in emerging democracies toward a more democratic model with emphases on human rights, dignity, transparency, accountability and public service.
Cliff’s functional areas of expertise include: police academy organization and administration; instructor training and curriculum development; law enforcement leadership; uniformed police operations; community policing concepts and implementation; anti-corruption strategies and initiatives; and transitioning law enforcement organizations to Rule of Law policing concepts.
Anna Borysova
Mrs. Borysova serves The Emergence Group as its International Coordinator. She received her degree in Foreign Languages from the Ivan Franko State University in Lviv, Ukraine in 1996.
After completing her college studies she was hired by the Lviv Institute of Management as an expert interpreter and translator. In 1997 she was selected by Project Harmony to be one of its first staff members. During her five years with Project Harmony she was involved in numerous law enforcement related projects including: the Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP); the Criminal Justice Schools Exchange Program; the Domestic Violence Community Partnership Program; the Anti-Trafficking of Women Project; the Community Policing Training Initiative; and finally the Integrating Ethics Into Democratic Governance Program. While managing these programs, Anya was responsible for coordinating with senior level U.S. law enforcement and State Department officials. She also regularly coordinated Project Harmony’s activities and programs with the most senior of officials at the Ukranian Ministry of the Interior.
Anya is married and enjoys hiking, running and downhill skiing.