Our Team
Laina GreeneCo-founder
Laina Greene is a serial entrepreneur and also social impact investor. She worked in the telecom and clean tech space over 25 years in 47 countries around the world.
During her travels she became passionate about the potential for technology to change lives for the better, and looked for innovative business and financing models to enable remote and poor communities to access technology. "We needed a different model and I set out to find it. In a way, I was working on social enterprise models long before I’d ever heard of social enterprise!” |
Audrey TanCo-founder
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. |
PatriciaCo-founder
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. |
Eric BarkerAnalyst
Eric is our Strategic Initiatives Associate at Angels of Impact, and former Impact Investing Intern at Kiva.org. He was also a Digital Marketing Consultant at Walter Analytics. Eric has consulted on strategy and marketing with startups and nonprofits around the world, and now enjoys cooking and using other people's money to make sustainable change through social enterprise. Eric's personal belief that women-led businesses and solutions present an under-utilised and underserved arena align with that of Angels of Impact.
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Beverley Kannangara
Programmes Coordinator
Beverley was a missionary in New Zealand for almost 2 years before returning to Singapore with a desire to continue in something meaningful. When Beverley discovered Angels of Impact, she saw the amazing work they were doing, and the empowerment of women resonated deeply within her, such that she knew she wanted to be part of the team. Currently, Beverley is supporting the A.I. team on all things administrative.
Our Interns
Nathan BucagAnalyst
Nathan is an MBA student at NUS. He was previously a corporate finance associate in the Philippines for five years handling a credit portfolio with clients ranging from SMEs to large corporate firms. He was exposed to various social enterprises during his stint and was made aware of the credit gap that social enterprises face. Nathan joined AI to be part of a passionate team that is aiming to fill this credit gap and ultimately help in the elimination of poverty.
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Taavishi JindelAnalyst
Taavishi is a Physics student at Yale-NUS College. She is a strong champion of the inclusion of women in STEM. Taavishi believes that Angels of Impact demonstrates the power encompassed in the shift from viewing women as victims to pioneers of change. She was drawn to AI due to its innovative and critical solution to sustainably tackling poverty. She supports AI through conducting research.
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