The Team

Senior operators, strategists, and program leaders.

Ankor Solutions is built around a small, deliberate team of public program practitioners. Every engagement is led and staffed by people who have actually run, scaled, and improved high-stakes public programs in the real world.

The Team

The people behind the work.

A senior bench of operators, performance strategists, and program designers who lead and staff every engagement.

Founder

Allison Byrne

Operations and program leader with more than 20 years of experience strengthening organizational performance, scaling programs, and leading complex initiatives across the nonprofit and public sectors. Her background spans executive leadership roles overseeing operations, finance, HR, technology, and multi-site program delivery, including within organizations implementing government-funded programs. Allison founded Ankor Solutions to bring together operational execution, performance strategy, and human-centered program design.

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Consultant

Marcia Salovitz

Marcia Salovitz is an experienced operations and emergency management executive with more than 20 years of leadership across government, disaster recovery, housing, and human services programs. Through her work with organizations including Witt O'Brien's, she has led complex emergency management and housing initiatives supporting disaster recovery, community stabilization, and services for vulnerable populations at the federal, state, and local levels. Marcia is recognized for building strong partnerships, leading high-performing teams, and delivering practical, mission-focused solutions in fast-paced and high-pressure environments.

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Consultant

Dennis Sze

Dennis is a serial entrepreneur. He founded Creative Study Zone over a decade ago as a boutique educational services agency that empowers and prepares students to be future leaders and lifelong learners. Dennis was the Director of Finance for Workforce Development at a large international nonprofit for over 11 years, overseeing financial operations for a portfolio of government contracts valued at over $900M with a focus on innovation, compliance, operational excellence, and optimization.

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Consultant

Vanessa Brower

Ms. Brower brings over 30 years of experience leading complex, federally funded programs and cross-functional teams. Her expertise spans disaster recovery, community planning, grants administration, affordable housing, compliance, risk management, and organizational development. She has designed and implemented programs from the ground up, including policy, procedures, systems, staffing, and monitoring for funding streams such as CDBG, CDBG-DR, HOME, CRF, SLFRF, and CV-Home.

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Consultant

Felicia Hedgepeth

Project Management Professional with 15+ years of experience across business and nonprofit sectors. Skilled in process improvement, training, customer service, leadership development, and team management. A CDBG-DR leader and consensus builder, she excels at setting strategy, driving performance, building relationships, and bringing clarity, structure, and momentum to complex, fast-moving environments.

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Consultant

Christina Pumphrey

Led fraud and compliance-related program implementation within government-funded housing programs for over four years. She worked creating fraud prevention programs and evaluating for fraud in multiple CARES Act programs, including rent assistance and mortgage assistance. Fraud prevention programs included staff training on fraud characteristics and best practices to prevent opportunities for fraud, as well as the review of application data and documentation during pre-application processing and prior to payment approval.

How We Staff

Every Ankor Solutions engagement is led and staffed by senior operators. Clients work with the people who have actually delivered the programs, not a hand-off to junior teams.

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We are always looking for experienced subcontractors, collaborators, and subject-matter experts.

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