Tent Partnership for Refugees Appoints New Leadership Team Across the Americas and Europe

January 28, 2025 – Today, the Tent Partnership for Refugees (Tent) – an international network of over 400 companies committed to the labor market integration of refugees – is pleased to announce its new leadership team. While Tent has gone from strength to strength in galvanizing the world’s largest employers to connect refugees to jobs, these individuals are poised to help drive the next stage of its growth and impact across the Americas and Europe.

Tent’s new leadership team includes:

• Brandon Yoder, who joins Tent as Vice President of the Americas. Most recently, he served in the Biden Administration as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to that, for over a decade, he served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as Senior Professional Staff Member for the Americas and global economic policy. 
• Tim Cole, who joins Tent as Vice President of Europe. Most recently, he led the ONE Campaign in Europe. Prior to that, he served as a UK diplomat in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including as the UK’s Migration Envoy and as Ambassador to Cuba from 2012 to 2016, and earlier, as Deputy Head of Mission in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. 
• Haiwen Lu Langworth, who joined Tent in 2022 as Global Director, is promoted to Vice President of Global Communications and Marketing. She is seconded by Philip Kyle, who is promoted to Director of Communications for Europe and Crissy Vicendese, who is promoted to Director of Global Brand Marketing.

In addition, Tent is pleased to announce the creation of a new division laser-focused on harnessing its unique multi-market expertise and innovations to accelerate its impact by  strengthening the support it provides to its hundreds of member companies in helping them to hire and integrate refugees. While Tent is still actively recruiting for a new Vice President to lead this new division, this individual will be seconded by: Laura Velez Villa, who is promoted to Director of Hiring Solutions; Ileana Cruz-Marden, who is promoted to Director of Partnerships; and Matt Caines, who is promoted to Director of Business Research & Best Practices.

Additionally, in support of its ongoing expansion, Sofia Campa is promoted to Director of Operations.

As part of its rapid growth efforts, Tent is continuing to hire for numerous roles across the Americas and Europe. To find out more about these open positions, visit www.tent.org/careers. 

About the Tent Partnership for Refugees

With more and more refugees displaced around the world, businesses have a critical role to play in helping them integrate economically in their new communities. Tent was launched in 2016 by Hamdi Ulukaya, the CEO and founder of Chobani – a multibillion dollar food company in the U.S. – to mobilize the world’s largest employers to fill this gap. Today, Tent is a network of over 400 major companies committed to helping refugees across a dozen countries in the Americas and Europe access local labor markets by helping them become job-ready and connecting them to work. Find out more at www.tent.org.