We are excited to announce that Atma Connect has hired Zev Lowe as our first Vice President of Growth & Impact. This newly-created role will oversee Atma Connect’s cross-functional growth team, and will lead our field team in Indonesia, with the goal of connecting more people through AtmaGo, our award-winning app, so they can receive disaster alerts, report disaster-related 
issues, post local problems, learn about job opportunities, and share news and resources.
Zev Lowe brings over 12 years of leadership experience to Atma Connect. He was recently on the founding team of Worldreader, a FastCompany “most innovative” global technology nonprofit serving over 10M people. As a member of Worldreader’s Global Leadership Team, Mr. Lowe developed innovative models and partnerships that harnessed technology to address the lack of reading materials in the Global South.
Mr. Lowe has lived and worked extensively in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, he served as a Fellow with the microfinance nonprofit Kiva.org, and he also worked in the private sector in the software industry in Malaysia. He holds an MBA from ESADE Business School and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Anthropology from Dartmouth College. In addition to English, he also speaks Bahasa Indonesia and Spanish.
“Atma Connect is privileged to have connected 1 million people, allowing them to share information, help each other, create better lives, and prepare for and recover from natural disasters” said Meena Palaniappan, Atma Connect’s Founder & CEO. “With Zev on board, we’re looking forward to expanding our impact in Indonesia, as well as in other key geographies around the world.”
“Communities with good social networks bounce back more quickly from adversity,” said Mr. Lowe. “It is a privilege to join Atma Connect in harnessing technology to empower people, strengthen social ties, and develop resilience. I’m excited to help advance Atma Connect’s vision of building the power of people helping people in vulnerable communities around the world.”
Zev Lowe joins Atma Connect’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area. He can be reached at zev[at]atmaconnect[dot]org.