TOR072: Mobile Technology at Souktel with Jacob Korenblum

Jacob Korenblum is the CEO, President and Co-founder of Souktel. Souktel designs and delivers custom mobile solutions that connect job seekers with employers, and help development implementers get information to and from the people they serve.

Prior to Souktel, Jacob worked managing economic development and emergency relief projects for USAID and the Canadian International Development Agency. Fluent in Arabic and French, Jacob has worked in the emergency aid sectors in the Middle East, East Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean. He is a frequent panelist on technology, development, and labor markets--with speaking engagements ranging from the GSMA Mobile World Congress to the World Bank Human Development Forum. He has co-authored a chapter in the sector publication “Mobile Technologies for Conflict Management” and has written articles on mobile technology for the MIT Innovations Journal, CNBC Online, and the Overseas Development Institute. His work as a Souktel co-founder has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company and the UK's Guardian newspaper. Jacob holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University, where was a Harvard Reynolds Foundation Fellow in Social Enterprise.