University of Cambridge

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Harvard University

Partners for a New Economy

Chair

Omidyar Network

Chief Strategy Officer (Managing Director)

Board Member

Economic Change Unit

Steering Committee

* Omidyar Network has evolved into a social change venture focused on Reimagining Capitalism, Responsible Technology, and Building Cultures ofBelonging
* Over the last several years, we have incubated and spun out several other organizations focused on different issue areas (e.g., education @Imaginable Futures, financial inclusion @Flourish, property rights @PlaceFund, governance and citizen engagement @Luminate, democracy @Democracy Fund and venture capital funds working in impact sectors @Spero and @Omidyar Technology Ventures)
* The Strategy Group aims to keep ON’s house in order and on the cutting edge, and includes corporate strategy, learning & impact, explorations & future sensing, and incubation capabilities.

Global Head of Strategy Group (Senior Director)

Omidyar Network was a philanthropic investment firm pursuing social impact at scale. A global firm, working with hundreds of innovative organizations across the world, using a variety of tools including venture philanthropy, impact investing, policy, advocacy and ecosystem support. My work involved  :
1) Strategy : developing corporate, geographic and sector level strategies
2) Research :  future sensing, sector research, hypothesis testing
3) Impact & learning : understanding the impact of investments and extracting insights to enhance future impact

Director, Intellectual Capital 

Principal, Intellectual Capital

$4+ billion foundation seeking to transform the lives of poor and vulnerable children in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, using an impact-driven, data focused, active engagement approach. 
•	Developed strategy, built investment pipeline; originated, developed and managed high impact opportunities to improve children’s welfare
•	Led deal-teams and due diligence process, and secured Board approval for investments across South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
•	Nurtured strategic and investment relationships with private sector, governments, NGOs and academia across multiple sectors
•	Developed CIFF’s first impact investment ($20 million for health product development) and first humanitarian grants ($4 million to 4 agencies in Horn of Africa)
•	Developed >$40 million of social enterprise investments including handwashing in India, food supplementation in Bangladesh, and therapeutic food production 
•	Assessed >$150 million of grant opportunities, including water quality and cook-stoves in Kenya, and malnutrition initiatives in Nigeria, India, Bangladesh, Malawi and Mozambique

Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF)

Strategy & Investments

Consultant developing strategy for IPA to scale the output from field experiments into broader roll-out across organizations, with a focus on microfinance

Innovations for Poverty Action

Consultant (MPA/ID Intern)

Worked primarily in 2 areas:
1) Finance in Western Europe, mainly retail banking as part of the Financial Institutions Group
2) Economic Development internationally as part of the Social Sector Office (won competitive fellowship), mainly financial inclusion and country growth strategies

McKinsey & Company

Engagement Manager

Identifying opportunities for the Royal Economic Board to accelerate its efforts to improve development of the nation

Royal Bafokeng Nation

Consultant (MBA Intern)

Supported a range of social entrepreneurs to improve their business performance

UnLtd

Ventures Consultant (MBA Intern)

Analytical marketing leveraging "big-data" to drive profitable customer acquisition

Sonny Bardhan