Executive Director & Founder

Sherrie brings more than 20 years of counter-trafficking practitioner expertise to Global Emancipation Network, which she founded more than 10 years ago.  She is the author of several international legal policies and guidelines on trafficking and has collaborated with the United Nations, League of Arab States, Council of Europe, Interpol, and several governmental agencies to end modern-day slavery.  She enjoys traveling and reads voraciously to feed a passion for creating new solutions to end human trafficking.

Senior Director, Strategy & Operations

Melanie Duzyj is a data analytics & AI industry veteran, having spent her career across Splunk, GitHub, Twilio and Bugcrowd focused on enterprise software strategy and marketing. In her role leading Strategy & Operations, she’s focused on expanding the partner network reach & commercialization of GEN’s platform, including the GEN Intelligence Suite debut in spring 2026.

Melanie is personally passionate about child empowerment & safety, and she serves as a board member for Girls on the Run.

Technical Director 

Steve Vangasse is the Technical Director at Global Emancipation Network, steering the technical strategy and architecture for AI-driven platforms that combat global exploitation. As a seasoned technical leader and entrepreneur, he has founded and scaled multiple technology ventures and served as a Non-Executive Director for several high-growth firms. He brings deep expertise in digital forensics and resilient engineering from leadership roles at CameraForensics and global tech firms like Oracle and Orange. Steve holds an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, UK.

Principal Developer

Having spent 45 years in software development, Jonathan Wagner brings experience from across the industrial, telecommunications, and private consulting sectors. Over the last decade, he has focused on applying data analytics and predictive modeling to solve complex, high-stakes problems. Jonathan’s technical background is driven by a career-long dedication to protecting children and at-risk populations from exploitation in both physical and digital environments. By combining engineering with advanced data insights, he works to stay ahead of emerging threats and help safeguard the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Alfred brings years of machine learning experience from Magnet Forensics and Griffeye Technologies, where he helped build tools for CSAM investigators around the world. His work spans the full spectrum of machine learning, from research and modeling to production deployment. Before joining Global Emancipation Network as a Machine Learning Engineer, Alfred volunteered with the organization, working directly alongside investigators to build tools that support the fight against child exploitation. He is passionate about ensuring that technology is not only powerful but accessible and intuitive for the people who need it most. Alfred holds a Master's degree in Applied Physics from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Senior Advisor, Government Affairs

Megan Anderson has worked on human rights issues for two decades for both non-profits and the U.S. government. A passion for keeping kids safe from sexual exploitation led her to GEN! In her government affairs role, she is expanding GEN’s presence in key policy and partnership spaces, connecting the organization with Capitol Hill decisionmakers, private foundations, and the U.S. State Department around efforts to disrupt online exploitation.

Board Member

Dr. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO of Recorded Future, Inc. and Chairman of Hult International Business School. He advises a series of start up companies. Earlier Ahlberg was the president of the Spotfire Division of TIBCO, which he founded in 1996 and in 2007 sold to TIBCO (Nasdaq: TIBX). Spotfire was founded based on his ground-breaking research on information visualization. Dr. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology, worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland, and has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities – as well as published & lectured in computer science, cyber security, psychology, linguistics, biology, and chemistry. He has five granted software patents, and multiple pending. Dr. Ahlberg was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by Technology Review, MIT’s Magazine of Innovation in 2002. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Board Member

Ann Barron-DiCamillo is Partner and Chief Technology Officer at Strategic Cyber Ventures (SCV). Due to the evolving cyber landscape resulting from changing approaches adversaries take to circumvent cybersecurity measures, Ms. Barron-DiCamillo leverages her expertise gained from 18 years in information technology development and cybersecurity operations to identify emerging technologies that fulfill capability gaps as they are created in the dynamic environment of the internet.

Prior to joining SCV, Ms. Barron-DiCamillo was the Director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) where she led DHS’s 24X7 cyber operations center responding to major cyber intrusions and other relevant incidents, analyzing associated threats, and sharing the resulting critical cybersecurity information with trusted partners around the world.

She has held positions in Departments of Defense, Commerce and in US Congress. Outside of government, Ms. Barron-DiCamillo has experience working with system integration firms in software development and applications development.

Ms. Barron-DiCamillo most recently was selected by FCW Magazine as a 2016 Top Fed 100 award winner. She is the 2016 recipient of the Technology Champion Award by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. In 2016 and in 2015 she was named “Top 10 Women Power Players in IT Security” by SC Magazine and in 2015 “Top 10 Women Cyber Guardians You Should Know” by NextGov.  She is a graduate of Baylor University and earned her Master of Science Degree in Information Systems from American University. She completed Harvard University Kennedy School’s Senior Executive Fellows program and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) since 2003.  She is currently an Adjunct Professor at American University Kogod Business School, teaching graduate and undergraduate level courses on Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Governance.

Board Member

Marina Elefante combines her 15 years of legal expertise in human rights to combat the evils of child labor, human trafficking, and child marriage.  Originally from Italy, she has worked in the Ukraine, Turkey, Switzerland, and the United States in various capacities surrounding trafficking in persons.  She presently works at the World Bank and consults for the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Board Member

Dr. Deborah Frincke is a leading voice and pioneer in cybersecurity and technology.  Serving professionally as the National Security Agency (NSA/CSS) Research Director she serves the Global Emancipation Network privately as a technology expert contributing to the vision of using technology and science to better human endeavors.  Her background includes: Chief Cybersecurity Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL), Professor at University of Idaho, Affiliate Professor at University of Washington, co-founder of TriGeo Network Systems, and serves on the editorial boards for numerous prestigious publications such as Journal of Computer Security, the Elsevier International Journal of Computer Networks, and the International Journal of Information and Computer Security. Dr. Frincke received her PhD from the University of California, Davis in 1992.

Board Member

Manmeet Kaur has 20+ years of experience in building intelligent digital solutions leveraging data, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to guide insights, actions and Impact.

She is currently focused on applying AI to help Global Emancipation Network, a non-profit organization committed to combating human trafficking globally by utilizing cutting-edge data analytics.

Before focusing full time on applying AI for social good, Manmeet was a Sr. Data Scientist at Accenture, where she led the Artemis project which utilized machine learning-text analytics to combat human trafficking. This was also in partnership with the Global Emancipation Network.

Manmeet was a Sr. Data Scientist and Product Lead at Kogentix, a Big Data & Applied AI startup, which was acquired by Accenture. At Kogentix, she built many forecasting models for Retail and CPG client and a risk scoring model predicting Patient Decline to help Rapid Response Team drive real-time clinical intervention, improve outcomes, and enhance resource utilization. 

Before Kogentix, Manmeet worked at Walgreens as a Business and System Analyst lead in Inventory Department where she developed and managed applications for ordering system to suspend control drug orders which seemed suspicious as per DEA mandates