James Krejci
Mr. James Krejci is President and Managing Director 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).
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 established The Emergence Group, which is committed to partnering with host country governments to build effective, sustainable and democratically oriented criminal justice systems. James has provided project management oversight for police reform projects in Ukraine, Guyana, Indonesia, Tajikistan, and elsewhere.
Jim lives in downtown Washington, DC with wife Vanessa and baby boy Peter. He speaks German and Russian, and enjoys skiing and biking. Jim is a member of the Board of Directors of PSI International of Fairfax, VA; he is also a Senior Advisor to GlobalGiving of Washington, DC.
Ambassador Dennis K. Hays
Ambassador Hays is a Director with The Emergence Group.
Prior to joining The Emergence Group Ambassador Hays served in the U.S. Foreign Service for over twenty-five years, with postings in Africa, the Caribbean and South America. As U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Suriname and Charge d'Affaires at two other posts he was responsible for all US governmental activity with the host country, including police and military training missions and judicial and law enforcement programs ranging from drug enforcement coordination to anti-trafficking in persons initiatives. He designed and implemented several large profession training programs for security personnel. Earlier in his career, he served as a Lead Coordinator for Presidential and Vice Presidential visits to foreign nations.
On leaving the Service, Ambassador Hays served as the Executive Vice President of a major foreign policy advocacy group, working closely with the White House, the NSC, the State Department and the Congress on programmatic and legislative issues. He subsequently was Managing Director for Global Operations for the firm of Tew Cardenas, where he provided consulting and advisory services to a variety of governmental and private sector clients from Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Throughout his career Ambassador Hays has focused on Rule of Law issues and been a strong advocate for professional training.
Ambassador Hays has been awarded the State Department's Superior Honor Award four times (1981, 1987, 1991, and 1995) and the Meritorious Honor Award once (1979). He received the Christian Herter Award for Intellectual Courage in 1996 and the Order of the Palm from the Republic of Suriname in 2000. He earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies from the University of Florida and a master's degree in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. He is also a 1993 graduate of the National War College.
Jorge Sapoznikow
Dr. Jorge Sapoznikow is Director for Latin America and The Caribbean.
Dr. Sapoznikow, a Colombian born US citizen, enjoyed a 28-year career with the Inter-American Development Bank. From 2000-2007 he was 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 operations in areas of Governance including Anticorruption, Citizen Security, Judicial Modernization, Legislative Modernization, and Law Enforcement Reform.
Prior to this role, 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 that dealt with natural disasters and peace agreements to end civil wars in the region. Before that he was the Chief of Programming of the Plans and Programs Department where he was responsible for the Bank’s assistance strategy towards the borrowing countries in the Caribbean, Central and 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 and citizen security. 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.