Jerry Marshall (Eagle – 1975)

May's OJ of the Month

Jerry is passionate about business solutions to poverty. It started in 2012 with a contact centre founded in Bethlehem, Palestine, where youth unemployment is exceptionally high. As an ‘invisible’ export and because agents can work from home, the business is resilient to curfews, lockdowns and border closure. Called Transcend, the company serves Israeli and Palestinian clients and has grown to 180 staff.

More recently, Jerry founded Transformational Enterprise Network (TEN), a registered charity whose members and partners have helped create over 250,000 micro businesses in some of the poorest countries in the world. A conference organised by Jerry with four other agencies in London in June 2024 is to be opened by Archbishop Justin Welby.

Look out for the full article about Jerry in the 2024 Hurst Foundation magazine, out at the end of the year.