Irina Mitchell

Irina Mitchell is an international business and non-profit management professional with over 15 years of experience in startup formation, technology entrepreneurship skills development, business acceleration, and innovation capacity building. Irina is a problem-solver and self-starter who thrives in fast-paced multicultural environments, values collegiality, fosters teamwork, and encourages the exchange of information, ideas, and feedback.

Throughout her career, Irina has gained functional expertise in program and project management, instructional design and delivery, technology and social entrepreneurship trainings, program design, monitoring, and evaluation, grants and contracts management, budgeting, planning and reporting, public speaking, and expert panel participation. She excels in strategic partnership development and stakeholder engagement, proposal development, and resource mobilization, as well as supervision of staff, interns, contractors, and volunteers.

Irina has a diverse background, having previously worked as VP Programs and Operations at Private Capital Development, Program Lead at EMPEA Institute, Program Manager at CRDF Global (U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation), International Trade Specialist at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Director of Operations at American Export Network, Project Coordinator at Contrack Watts, Inc., and Manager Account at Quality Products International.

Irina's skills also include entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, business consulting, trade logistics (customs, certification/licensing, shipping/distribution), capacity building, international trade, government contracting, customer service, and event planning.