Dominic Muntanga is a Disaster Response and Preparedness Coordinator and registered New York City and State Lobbyist. Prior to this position, Dominic was a special assistant to the Borough President of Manhattan and later on a Campaign Advisor for a New York City democratic Mayoral Candidate, C. Virginia Fields. Dominic is also a member of the Tonga. Online Project (www.mulonga.net) and the co-founder of the African Investment Corporation. Dominic is a graduate of Washington University in Saint Louis, College of the Atlantic, and the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales, U.K. Dominic enjoys traveling, cooking, coordinating United World College (http://www.uwc.org) alumni, and discussing the future of the Africa.

Manny is an investment professional at Stone Point Capital, a private equity firm focused on insurance and financial services. Prior to Stone Point he was CEO of TraditionalMatchmakers.com, a high-end on-line dating service. Before that he worked in M&A advisory at Beacon Group, prior to which he spent sixteen months traveling in Africa and the Middle East (eight of them riding a motorcycle from Cape Town to Tel Aviv, Israel). Manny has a B.S. in Economics (magna cum laude) and an MBA (Palmer scholar) from the Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

Harry is a Partner of On-Ramps (www.on-ramps.com), a recruiting and consulting firm focused on workplace innovation.  Prior to founding On-Ramps, Harry was a Partner and Managing Director of Glocap Search, the largest alternative asset search firm in the United States, where he was the company’s first employee and built and ran the firm’s Accounting and Operations practice. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of R.I.S.E. (www.RISENetwork.org), a not-for-profit organization focused on improving teacher retention by providing resources to quality teachers of low-income communities.  Prior to moving to New York, he, with several of Kalai's other directors, spent 16 months traveling throughout Africa and the Middle East - eight months of which were spent on an off-road motorcycle (1978 Yamaha XT500) traveling from Cape Town to Tel Aviv. Harry earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Paleobiology from the University of Pennsylvania.  Harry, his wife, Christa, their daughter, Alexandra, and son, Maxwell, live on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.

Lee is completing the University of California, San Diego MD/PhD program this year and will be matriculating to a Pathology residency in Summer, 2011. His interests in Global Health include novel solutions to strengthening Laboratory Medicine infrastructures in resource-limited settings. While at UCSD he helped found the Science Policy Analysis Roundtable (SPAR) and created a School of Medicine course on medicinal plants. An extended trip in Western, Southern and Eastern Africa established Lee's interest in forming Kalai and opened his eyes to the possibility of contributing to international medical development. After growing up in Detroit, MI, Lee earned his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lufu Muntanga is a Management Consultant. He did his management training at Speciss College in Bulawayo from 2000 to 2003. He has a passion for the arts, and during his spare time, he works as a promoter for local and international artists. He also enjoys Travelling .

Paul Hebhardt graduated with a Systems Engineering degree in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania. After university, Paul spent 2 years working for QVC US, during which he spent 6 months on site in Bochum Germany. Paul then met Harry, Manny and Lee for 3 months of traveling through Africa, and then 3 more months of travelling on his own. It was during this time that Paul became increasingly interested in the people, politics, and life of Africa and first became acquainted with the people in the village of Kariyangwe. Paul is a contract web developer and is currently living in Adelaide, South Australia with his wife, Louiza, and daughter, Noella.