Alumni Profiles
Brooke Partridge
MPIA '91
As CEO and founder of Vital Wave Consulting, Brooke Partridge has furthered emerging markets as a new discipline in business management. Her firm, now global in its scope, has helped set game-changing strategies in emerging markets for multinational firms. Vital Wave also works with global foundations on scalable, sustainable business models for technology adoption in the developing world.
Brooke has been a leader in emerging market and emerging technology businesses for more than 20 years. She was the business director of the Emerging Market Solutions Organization at Hewlett Packard, where she built the team that designed and commercialized HP’s first technology solutions for developing economies. Throughout her career, Brooke has brought to market a wide variety of innovative technology solutions, managing all business functions including marketing, operations and R&D.
Brooke has lived and worked in developing economies including Perú, Chile, and México, and has spent extended periods of time in Western Europe and South Africa. She lectured in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University and holds a Master of Pacific International Affairs from UC San Diego as well as a Bachelor of Science in economics and international relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Brooke's work and contributions to society were recognized with the 2009 IR/PS Outstanding Alumni Award.
