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Rokas Beresniovas is the Senior Director of Development, Marketing and Communications at Charities Aid Foundation—America (CAF America). CAF has a global alliance of nine offices on six continents managing over $4 billion in international and domestic donor advised funds. Born in Lithuania, Rokas emigrated to the U.S. in 1998. He has worked predominantly in the financial services sector, where he served as a Vice President of Business Development and Commercial Banking for Bank of America, Eagle Bank, HSBC Bank USA, and the State Bank of India. Rokas has also been a board member of various community organizations, including the Georgetown Business Association (GBA), Kids 4 Peace International, End Violence Against Women International and The Embassy Series. Rokas was awarded the 2016 SmartCEO Washington DC Executive Management Award and was a finalist for the 2015 SmartCEO Washington DC Money Manager Award. He also won a Global Tassels Community Innovator Award (2015) and The Eurasia Center Golden BRICS Award (2014). Rokas is the founder of the Lithuanian nonprofit organization Global Lithuanian Leaders (GLL) and was recognized by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2015 for outstanding leadership in youth mentoring.