Our Team

​Laina Greene

 Founder & CEO (May 2016-present)

Laina Greene has over three decades of experience in the tech industry and social impact space as consultant, entrepreneur, investor, mentor and educator. She has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for organisations of all sizes. She also served  as Senior Advisor to Ashoka, as Associate Director of the Asia Center for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy at the NUS Business School, as Advisor to Plus Acumen chapter in Singapore and currently teaches social entrepreneurship and Lean Startup at NUS Business School as Senior Adjunct Lecturer. She is also the co-author of a book “Sustainable Impact: How women are key to ending poverty” (2017) and two reports written for Angels of Impact funded by Oxfam and Sasakawa Peace Foundation. 

Pia Bruce

Co-founder (May 2018-present)

Pia Bruce has spent most of the last decade working towards women’s empowerment and gender equality in Asia. As the Executive Director of the Singapore Committee for UN Women (formerly UNIFEM) for over eight years before taking on a Senior Advisor role (now known as United Women), she has been heavily involved in multiple initiatives that provide women and girls with access to education, economic independence and a life free of violence and abuse. Pia is also passionate about investing in women, and spending part of her time with Angels of Impact, supporting women-led social enterprises in the region.

Our Advisors

Vivek Sharma

Senior Advisor
Vivek is passionate about the empowerment of women, underprivileged and disabled through education and sustainable investment. Governance, strategy, general management and consulting is his forte. Leveraging 15 years of executive experience in bulge bracket banks, he serves on non-profit boards and advises pro-bono to NGOs and social enterprises. Vivek is a Director at Credit Suisse and Governing Council Member of Oxfam.

Jaspal Sidhu

Senior Advisor
 Jaspal is the Founder and Chairman of the SIS Group of Schools. The SIS Group is Indonesia's largest chain of quality private K-12 schools with multiple price points on its tuition fees, so as to make quality education accessible at different income levels. The Group has schools in Myanmar, India and South Korea and is in strategic partnership with the International Finance Corporation (World Bank) to expand its operations both in Indonesia and other countries. In 2019, the SIS Group of Schools was awarded the Financial Times-IFC (World Bank) Global Education Award for its transformational work across geographies. 

Esther Park
​Senior Advisor

​Esther is the CEO of Cienega Capital, a regenerative investment firm utilizing an integrated capital approach to systemic change in the areas of soil health, regenerative agriculture, and local food systems.  Cienega Capital is also part of the #NoRegrets Initiative, a regenerative asset strategy focused on the health of agricultural soils and agricultural communities of North America. Esther has 20 years of experience in mission-based financial services ranging from microfinance to risk capital investments, in partnership with financial institutions, family offices, foundations, and investment advisors.  She also serves as a Board member at Custom Food Solutions, Carman Ranch Provisions, Eden Cider, Civil Eats, and Grassfed Alliance.

Joshua Sheridan Fouts
Senior Advisor

Joshua is a globally recognized media innovator and social entrepreneur known for his visionary work paving new inroads for meaningful understanding between cultures. He began his career in Washington, DC in the 1990s where he worked at the US State Department and began to experiment with new ways to use radio, television and Internet technology for cultural collaboration. He went on to launch two first-of-their-kind think tanks focused on digital media innovation and cultural relations at the USC Annenberg School in Los Angeles. ​Joshua has worked in over 20 countries and most recently, he served for 5 years as Executive Director of Bioneers, a 25-year-old NGO focused on practical solutions for people and planet and is currently part of the Edmund Hillary Fellowship Cohort 6.

Leslie Lindo
Senior Advisor

Leslie has over the last 6 years,  focused on identifying and advancing solutions to address the wealth disparities in economically marginalized communities. She is a portfolio manager for Candide Group managing investments for the Olamina Fund, which is a $40M loan fund focused on racial and economic justice in the Deep South, Rural America, and Indian Country. In her previous role as VP of Strategic Partnerships at Common Future (formerly BALLE), Leslie brought together diverse stakeholders around decolonizing access to capital, racial equity and impact investing, equitable financing tools, democratic governance and financial structures, integrated entrepreneurial ecosystems, and shared ownership of land, housing, and businesses. She has proudly served on executive committees for multiple boards, including The Green Chamber of Greater Phoenix, USGBC Arizona Chapter, and Oakland Grown, and currently serves as board co-chair for the New Economy Coalition.

Teresa Tepania Ashton
​Senior Advisor

.  After a 12 year career working internationally with Citibank (during which time she rose from Service Assistant to Vice President) she put her decades of community and corporate governance experience to work for her people. Teresa was the CEO of Te Rūnanga-a-Iwi o Ngāpuhi from 2004 – 2011.  Today she is CEO of Māori Women’s Development Incorporated – an inspirational and incredibly well-resourced organisation that provides loans and wrap around support for Wāhine Māori in business, and their whānau. ​​With credibility in hapū and iwi development, Reo Māori development, and governance across all sectors.  She is truly a contemporary wahine Māori leader.

Johann Wong, CFA
​Senior Advisor

​Johann is passionate about exploring and applying greenOceans thinking towards a newNormal.  How do we reImagine, reFrame and reBalance our CSR, ESG and SDG impact realities in order to co-create a newNormal?  How do we create collaborative experiential blended learning that fosters human innovation?  He is driven by the vision of advancing prosperity by fostering cultures of sustainable human innovation.  Special attention is made toward being an ally of BIWOC – black indigenous women of color.  Throughout his career, Mr. Wong has been an officer, director and founder of several investment and financial advisory firms, private investment hedge funds, hedge fund of funds and private and public companies and new ventures associated with global enterprises and entrepreneurs.  Current initiatives include BaumanWellness.com and CharacterYAQ.com, through his firm, JouleWatt.com

Part-timers 

Dona Beverley Kannangara
Administrative Manager

Beverley is a missionary of 5 years and since being inspired by the ladies of Angels of Impact, founded Carpe Momentous where she enjoys meeting young people over conversations of passion and purpose. Bev is currently assisting a few social enterprises with administrative work and supporting us in the same.

Madison Lommen
Program Manager

Madi is the founder and former director of Madibanani Bread Company. She is a lover of all things literary and currently exploring the systems that influence our stories as a final-year student at Yale-NUS College in Singapore​​. Madi has served as intern to Angels of Impact over a period of time helping us with our research and social media messaging. She is now assisting us with our strategy and outreach.

Ankita Panda
Freelancer

Adaptive and innovative MSc Management graduate with proven leadership capabilities and communication skills, able to establish rapport quickly and build strong ties. Independent and self-motivated individual with a strong background in human resources, marketing, communications and project management.

Volunteers

Maneet Arora
WISE Program Curation

Marc Landorf
​Partnerships
Maneet is inspired by the Angels’ focus on empowering women-led social enterprises and helping local communities. She is a firm believer that the corporate sector will pivot more of its considerable talent and volunteering hours  toward skills-based volunteering. She is a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank with a career spanning 20+ years and various roles in the Trading and Risk management functions.
Marc is the Manager, Business Planning and Projects of DKSH Healthcare. He has been a long time volunteer of Angels of Impact since as an intern from NUS Business School. Marc was instrumental in helping Angels of Impact with the Oxfam report and with the project proposal to Sasakawa Peace Foundation. He is now assisting us with further research and outreach. 

Julia Eubanks
Social Media and Content 

Diplomacy and World Affairs and Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture double major at Occidental College. Experience in community engagement, writing, communications, and marketing. Extensive knowledge of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 
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​As of March 2020, it was mutually agreed that co-founders Patricia Lim and Audrey Tan, who led the UNICEF project will no longer be involved with Angels of Impact and will leave to operate the UNICEF funded blockchain platform under a separate tech company, not affiliated with Angels of Impact. ​​