Author: Whitney White

Location: New York, NY- USA
Partner: Accion NYC

Geneva has the personality skill set and technical experience to connect investors to entrepreneurs and develop small medium enterprises. She understands the investment decision process and balances this with the operational structure and entrepreneurial passion of the small-medium business owner. Her experience in financial asset management firms includes market due diligence, financial analysis and cash flow modeling, and identifying key risks in debt underwriting. Her latter experiences in finance and operations sharpened her skills to identify key risks in operation systems and workflows and improved her ability to communicate and coordinate with key stakeholders. She desires to leave an indelible mark of loyalty, sedulousness, and compassion to the financial inclusion sector.

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Location: Rwanda

Partner: Resonate

Donna has committed her heart and energy to the anti-human trafficking movement for over a decade. Most recently, she headed the anti-human trafficking unit at The Standing Against Global Exploitation (SAGE) Project, a survivor-centered nonprofit organization in San Francisco. Donna is an innovative and adaptive leader, a keen strategic planner and a compassionate team builder. Donna is motivated to weave mission with sustainable business practices to urge meaningful change in the areas of migration, poverty, and exploitation. She is fluent in Hebrew and competent in Spanish; a self-starter and industrious. Communication is her strong suit – she is comfortable in boardrooms and in the field alike and is at her best when she is bridging the two spheres.

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Location: Antigua, Guatemala

Partner: Pomona Impact

Catriona’s international equities experience of over 7 years as both an analyst and portfolio manager has provided her with expertise in financial modeling and analysis, portfolio management, building relationships with investors and contributing to capital raising efforts. In her current role, Catriona has been working on strategic initiatives for a large listed property company, which has provided her with a strong business planning skill set. Her extensive experience and well-rounded attributes make Catriona well placed to actively contribute to making investment decisions within an impact investing fund. Catriona has a strong interest in working in healthcare, innovation and energy sectors.

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Location: Ghana
Partner: Sekaf

Lizzie has extensive international work experience in development, transnational organizations, and corporate social responsibility. Through her MSc in International Relations, she acquired strong analytical skills to measure and evaluate the impact of social programs and in the nonprofit sector she became well-versed in identifying the characteristics of social ventures and organizations with the greatest potential for success. She developed strong project management, problem-solving, and communications skills through her consulting experience in the private sector, enabling her to independently design and assess programs that generate and scale social impact. Lizzie is passionate about using her cross-sector experience to help organizations translate innovative ideas into successful enterprises.

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Location: Rwanda

Partner: Akazi Kanoze

Stan is a proven problem solver with a diverse skillset that enables him to serve in several capacities. He is well suited for operational and business strategy roles at a social enterprise, given his proficiency in negotiating contracts, technology evaluation and development, business strategy and market analysis, marketing, and advising entrepreneurs. He has received awards for his work enabling entrepreneurs to create technology-based start-ups and for his efforts commercializing research innovations. His background in research as a Ph.D. trained neuroscientist and in business development/licensing has allowed him to develop a unique combination of technical skills and business acumen that is valuable to organizations that need individuals to serve across functions.

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Location: Xela Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Partner: Alterna

Katharine has a strong interest in finding innovative ways to engage private markets and cultivate stronger entrepreneur ecosystems to solve social problems. She was able to put her passion into practice in her work for Endeavor which focused on researching and analyzing industries, markets, and business models of high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Katharine has been taking financial analysis classes to better prepare for conducting investment analysis and building financial models. Having studied biochemistry, medical anthropology, and pre-medicine at Dartmouth and two years during college working with Peruvian’s healthcare system, she is particularly interested in leveraging her understanding of how funds and companies invest, operate and grow to better serve global health systems.

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Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Xela Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Partners: Impact Hub Amsterdam and Alterna

Patrick has worked as an impact investor and philanthropist for the past 9 years, which give him a holistic perspective and a skillset in ethics research and development, B Corporation metrics, relationship building, due diligence and deal structuring. Patrick enjoys and excels at strategy work, communication, supporting the best in others by asking important questions, getting to the core of issues and having fun while working. Patrick has recently been helping to build a community of local investors, studying the rights of nature legal work, studying what comprises an economy built on peace rather than the military, and inspiring others through coaching or speaking to take wise risks investing in their values.

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Location: Antigua, Guatemala

Partner: Pomona Impact

Tyler has gained valuable experience in financial analysis while working for an institutional investment consultancy and managing portfolios for high net worth individuals.  In his prior role as Director of Investments at Strategic Financial Associates, he was responsible for developing firm-wide investment strategy, including asset allocation, evaluating investment opportunities, and communicating firm strategy with clients.  He has direct experience working with an impact investment fund, volunteering as a Research Associate for Encite Capital, a startup focused on investing in SGBs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

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Location: Santa Teresa, Costa Rica

Partner: Makanas 

Elliot Grossman graduated from University of California Santa Cruz in 2011 with a major in Business Management Economics and minor in Information and Technology Systems Management. After college he worked for two technology firms in sales and marketing. His professional experience in sales and marketing and extensive background in business has given him expertise in: analyzing target customers, strategic problem-solving, data research and analytics, the organization of information, basic accounting, and communication. Elliot has the professional background, dedication and perseverance to contribute to microfinance and investment firms.

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Location: Houston, Texas – USA

Partner: Chilton Capital

Sophia has a varied background including relevant coursework from the politics of developing countries to international security, and work in multiple nonprofit organizations. She has worked in various capacities, including administrative support, research, working with databases, event and conference planning. At the College of William & Mary she has held multiple intern and research assistant positions covering international foreign aid, social conflict, and an e-internship with US Air Combat Command. She has Arabic language skills and has worked in Syria at the Balis archaeological site and spent last summer completing her Monroe Scholar research project in Germany and Austria, while learning basic German language.

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Location: Cameroon

Partner: Placement Pending

Brittany’s professional, educational and international experiences have equipped her with insight, innovation and effective implementation skills. Throughout her undergraduate career, during which she studied entrepreneurship and development (Latin American focus), she became aware of the power of integration between the two schools of thought. She has since made it her goal to become a social entrepreneur with a focus on development. This focus allowed her to author business plans whose innovations generated significant economic output while simultaneously addressing societal needs and challenges. Currently, she is a full time Graduate Student at the University of Arizona pursuing a Masters in Development Practice while concurrently working as the Finance Manager for a Non Profit. Through uniquely structured solutions to complex issues, she desires to contribute and shed an indelible and unique light on the people & issues most forgotten in society.

Location: Cameroon

Partner: Jumpstart Academy Africa

Cameroonian by birth and African by destiny, Madelle’s vision is to be a leading social entrepreneur. Madelle acquired this entrepreneurial drive at the African Leadership Academy, after emerging as the top female performer at the Cameroonian National Examinations. With an aspiration to empower African youths, Madelle launched a community organization Youths4Change after graduating with a BA in Law and Anthropology from from the London School of Economics.

Currently, Madelle is the Co-Founder and President of Jumpstart Academy Africa(JSA Africa), a social impact venture which uses leadership and entrepreneurship training to solve Africa’s human capital problem. Through JSA Africa , Madelle’s goal is to train 17,000 young people over the next 5 years.

Blog: madellekangha.blogspot.com/

Location: Kentucky – USA

Partner: Placement Pending

Candice’s strong agricultural background has shaped her to be a self-starter who is motivated by working for a cause. She is a professionally trained public speaker and speech writer, has career experience in advertising, marketing, impact investing, and social investing. In her most recent work as Executive Personal Assistant to the Principal of an impact and social investing fund, Radicle Capital, Candice facilitated due diligence processes, acquired necessary legal and financial documentation; facilitated completion of such documents and more.  Candice followed the status of each client from introduction to partnership and facilitated a smooth partnership in hopes of building a more developed local and global community.

Location: Hungary

Partner: Biopolus

Saurabh has an entrepreneurial background with experience in the Indian environment and energy sector, management consulting (market research and business strategy) for international clients and policy research.  He also founded a start-up and has assisted other social enterprises in the clean energy and rural development space.  He is currently working on a Swedish Energy Agency commissioned research project titled “Alternative venture capital business models within the clean tech area” and helping Hungarian start-up, Biopolus, to raise capital for their social impact project on solving food, water, energy issues in urban slums. He is fully proficient in English & Hindi, and has a beginner level of Spanish.