Jacob Hamalian serves as an Associate Advisor at Silver Rock Consulting. A big picture thinker with an appetite for details, he has a passion for helping organizations achieve success through strategy and disciplined execution. Jacob particularly enjoys applying his energies to economic development and international program collaboration for social and faith-based affiliations.

Jacob has managed numerous projects and programs in social services, community organizing, global church thinking and leadership. His experience includes work with PC (USA) Church in the Middle East as well as involvement with a Milwaukee-based church and a variety of local small businesses. Previously, Jacob contributed to the development of legal framework aimed to support economic development and strengthen foreign policy at federal, state, and municipal levels of government. He also helped develop and standardize humanitarian engagement with Fragile States and adoption of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals.

Jacob holds a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations and Political Science from Carleton College in Northfield, MN. He is nearing completion of his MBA at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Lubar School of Business.