Meet Our Team

Founders

  • Graham Oberland

    Founder, CEO
    Graham is a proud graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead-Cain scholar, and holds an MBA from UPenn’s Wharton School and a Masters of International Relations from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He spent 5 years as a strategy consultant in Deloitte’s public sector practice, where he mapped and analyzed thousands of entities in complex supply chains for defense sector clients, building interest and expertise in small businesses crucial to the US industrial base. Graham also led D2i, Deloitte’s flagship social impact fellowship, and then served as Director of Operations for Stage Six, a company focusing on growing socially impactful businesses through franchising. Through this work he created growth strategies for social entrepreneurs in India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Rwanda, and Uganda. Graham currently serves as Director of Systems Innovation & Policy at Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI), a start-up nonprofit in eastern North Carolina dedicated to breaking cycles of intergenerational trauma and poverty. His role as CEO of Medium Orange Group combines his experience in the business and social impact sectors.
  • Samantha Oberland

    Founder, COO
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Advisors

  • Seth Saeugling

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    Seth began his career as a Teach for America high school Special Education teacher in Warren County, NC and Hayward, CA. He then built a community doula program with Tipping Point’s T Lab, teaching positive parenting techniques to first-time trauma-survivor mothers in Oakland, CA. In the summer of 2016, Seth applied his training in human-centered design to conducting participatory research and creating an investment strategy for a $20 million endowment for rural community development. He then worked with Roca’s Two-Gen High-Risk Mothers Program to improve programming and, ultimately, outcomes for children. In 2017, Seth co-founded Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI). Seth also has extensive experience in real estate investing, and he guides Medium Orange Group’s pipeline development and deal due diligence strategy.
  • Maximus Ateba

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    Max is a Strategy & Operations leader with 15+ years of experience in finance, operations, and consulting. He has worked at Morgan Stanley and Deloitte and served as an Associate Partner at Dalberg. He also founded Data Charter Group, an impact finance consulting firm with operations across West Africa, and served in the US Army Reserve Medical Command for nine years. He holds a BS from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, an MBA from St. John’s University, and is currently completing an MS in Clinical Operations at Harvard Medical School. Max brings his depth of financial and operational expertise to help Medium Orange Group evaluate potential acquisitions and create operational plans to grow our businesses.