Team
Jimi Michel
Principal Consultant
Jimi has spent his career making technology work for organizations that don't have a technology department. He has served as a fractional CIO for community health centers, led digital strategy on a national immunization program, and built AI chatbots and electronic registries used across entire countries. Along the way he has founded a startup, worked in cybersecurity, and taught graduate-level digital health at Boston University. He's also a conservatory-trained trumpet player, which is either relevant or it isn't, depending on the client.
Areas of expertise: IT strategy and governance · AI adoption · Vendor management · Digital systems design
Meryn Robinson
Technical Implementation and Education
Meryn has spent more than ten years putting new technology in place and making sure people can actually use it. At Dimagi, she rolled out mobile health tools in nine countries, training clinicians and field teams on the ground, sometimes in Spanish. She later grew South Africa's national eLearning platform for healthcare workers from 8,000 to more than 140,000 users, then prepared the government to run it on its own. Most recently, she led a local business through a full software migration for more than 3,000 users.
Areas of expertise: Software implementation and migration · Staff training and documentation · User adoption · Change management
Elvis Agah
Senior Engineer
Elvis is a senior engineer and product lead who has built software for everything from mobile payments to telehealth. He founded MyApp Labs in Ghana, where he designed and shipped a learning platform, an e-commerce service, and AI-powered health tools, and won the MTN Apps Challenge. In Europe, he has led AI and robotics product work at Alten and won two generative AI innovation awards at Amadeus. When a project needs more hands, he can put together a full development team.
Areas of expertise: AI product architecture · Full-stack engineering · Product and UX design · Cloud infrastructure
Sherri Lysy
Operations and Administration
Sherri has spent more than fifteen years running the operations that keep organizations working. As administration and finance manager for the Unitarian Universalist Association's New England region, she runs budgets, databases, communications, and events, and is writing the manuals that will let others run them. She has managed front-of-house operations at Duckfat and private events at Chaval, and has done policy research for Maine Equal Justice. She studied economics at NYU and social work at the University of Maine.
Areas of expertise: Nonprofit operations and finance · Process documentation · CRM and database management · Community and policy engagement