Our Team

​Laina Greene

Co-founder & CEO

Laina Greene is founder of GETIT Inc, an international business planning and strategic marketing consultancy based in Silicon Valley since 2000 and is co-founder of Angels of Impact. She also served as Goodwill Ambassador to Unltd Indonesia, as Senior Advisor to Ashoka, as Associate Director (Community Development) 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 and NUS Overseas College program. Laina's work experience spans 25 years in the telecom industry with a focus on Green ICT and bridging the digital divide in developing countries as well as women empowerment and intercultural communication. She currently lives between Singapore and Silicon Valley.

Pia Bruce

Co-founder & Research Lead

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, 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 a share of her time with Angels of Impact, supporting women-led social enterprises in the region.

Audrey Tan

Co-founder & Circles of Angels Project (led by Atix Labs)
Audrey Tan is a well-known social entrepreneur in Singapore. Audrey’s passion for poverty alleviation has her leveraging her presence in Singapore to help social enterprises in ASEAN.

​After working in technology for the last 8 years and studying Technology Entrepreneurship in San Francisco, Audrey returned to Singapore and set up PlayMoolah, a social enterprise which educates children, parents and young adults about managing money. 
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Patricia Lim

 Co-founder & Circles of Angels Project (led by Atix Labs)
Patricia Lim is a business advisor to various regional internet start up companies. She has assisted in formulating business, sales and marketing plan including reviewing business model, budget P&L and the execution of the business plan.
She has also invested in various start up company (SEA region).

Patricia was also  ex- Asia Pacific Cash Product and client services Head of RBS Markets and International Banking.  She had worked in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Bangkok and China prior - managing a cross team of different regions in Asia Pacific (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, China, India and Hong Kong). She has won key regional deals from various industries, and restructured the team by making personnel changes and coaching and mentoring key staffs.

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.

Sandeep Nair

Senior Advisor
 Sandeep is a strategy professional with a background in technology, consumer goods, and social impact. He was previously with Business Operations at LinkedIn and also the Inclusive Markets practice of Monitor Group, where he worked on initiatives to increase access to housing finance, safe drinking water, and sanitation facilities for low-income households in India. He was also with an impact investment fund providing capital to microfinance institutions. He advises Angels of Impact as they scale their work with social enterprises in South East Asia.

Our Interns

Diya Kundu

Research Assistant
Diya is studying economics and political science at Yale-NUS College. She cares deeply about social justice issues, especially those that intersect with feminist, environmental, and economic justice concerns. She is working at Angels of Impact because the organization enables her to create impact in all of these fields and to grow as a results-oriented researcher.

Rataporn Woraprasert

Impact Investment Analyst
Rataporn is an MBA student at NUS. She had an experience of working as a senior auditor in Thailand, holding the client’s portfolio in the manufacturing and logistics industries. She was exposed to the social enterprises during undergrads study in the school project. Since then, she is passionate about involving more in social enterprises activity as being a mentor for social enterprises in the SIF YSE Workshop 2018 Business Clinic Mentor. Rataporn joined AI team as a researcher for projects which study the funding gaps of women-led social enterprises tackling poverty.

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