Jack Edwards

Jack Edwards

Jack has worked with Ashoka as a volunteer since 2003, based from his home in Miami, Florida. He does interviews of Fellow candidates as part of Ashoka’s five-step search and selection process and has interviewed more than two hundred fellow candidates. He helped started the People team at Ashoka in 2004, has helped in recruiting and partnership building in Latin America and served as Ashoka Ombudsman.

Before joining Ashoka, Jack worked for Cummins Inc. as the President of its Power Generation Group with more than US $1 billion in sales and fifteen thousand employees. During his thirty years with Cummins, Jack lived and worked in Mexico, Brazil, US and England. Jack was deeply involved in Cummins’ corporate social responsibility initiatives and he started a school for 700 children in Sao Paulo, Brazil; helped start a carpentry business for blind people in Mexico which now employs 100 people and a Women’s Engineering College in Pune, India which now has 1000 students.

Jack came to know of Ashoka during his time with Cummins as the company sponsored and supported six Ashoka fellows in the late 1990s. As part of enjoying his encore career in the citizen sector, Jack is also involved with a micro savings and credit program in Colombia and a health clinic for Mayans in Mexico.