Meet the Team We help build world-class sustainable businesses that contribute to a healthy, happy, and equitable planet Expertise Entrepreneurship Leadership, Teamwork and Culture Design Engineering and Data Science Social Impact Strategy & Operations Investing Sales & Marketing Team Suraj Kripalani Co-Founder and CEO, BonBillo; Mentor at Startupbootcamp; Previously Strategy Consultant & Portfolio Manager Dan Thiffault Co-Founder and Tech Advisor, BonBillo; Senior Software Engineer, BookBub Rachel O'Neil Chief People Officer, BonBillo; Founder, Peoplenova Julia Turnbull Program Advisor, BonBillo; Fellowship Program Associate, MIT Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship Mayank Kumar Product Lead, BonBillo; Co-Founder, McAwesome Prachi Apte Program Advisor, BonBillo; Director, CWT, Previously Strategy Consultant at Accenture Payal Thiffault Creative Director, BonBillo; Co-Founder, Atelier ID Global Vandana Goyal Advisor, BonBillo; Board Member and Ex-CEO, Akanksha; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum Mentors and Advisors Entrepreneurship Will Sanchez Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Patricia Cotter Associate Managing Director, MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship Imran Sayeed Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MIT Catherine Mahugu Founder, Soko; Forbes 30 under 30 John Breslin Senior Lecturer, NUI Galway; Director, Galway City Innovation District Aditya Pittie Director, Pittie Enterprises Group Siddhartha Goyal CEO, Nivi Swapnil Shah Founder and CEO, Freight Tiger Rukaiya Rangwala Head - Zaakpay, MobiKwik Serge Lavallee Co-Founder & President, Jobillico Vaibhav Hegde Founder & CEO, Superbites Ritvik Singh Co-Founder & CEO, PsyInnovations Avinash Advani Senior Vice President, StarLink Zachariah George Managing Director, Startupbootcamp Balaji Srinivasan Vice President and Senior Associate Provost, The University of Chicago Lauren Abda Founder, BranchFood and Co-Founder, Branch Venture Group Neil Kothari Co-Founder, Drip Capital, Y-Combinator backed Trade Finance company Zoe Schlag Managing Director, Techstars Sanjay Pothen Director of Emerson Launch Blake Sims Program Director, Social Innovation at Innovate@BU, Boston University & Founder, Epiic Solutions Micah Chase Adjunct Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Founder, eInvite Jalal Ghiasi-Razavi Director, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Ebrahim Nalwala Founder & MD, IOTAP Darby Hobbs Founder and CEO, Social3 & Co-Founder and Chairperson, Conscious Capitalism Boston Chapter Cheryl Kiser Executive Director, Lewis Institute & Babson Social Innovation Lab Ameet Parikh Director, Tranzmute Capital & Management; Previously Partner and Head of Risk & Business Advisory Solutions, E&Y India Suraj Kripalani Co-Founder and CEO, BonBillo; Mentor at Startupbootcamp; Previously Strategy Consultant & Portfolio Manager Julia Turnbull Program Advisor, BonBillo; Fellowship Program Associate, MIT Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship Investing Alberto Gómez-Obregón Deputy CIO, Acumen Zachariah George Managing Director, Startupbootcamp Lauren Abda Founder, BranchFood and Co-Founder, Branch Venture Group Neil Kothari Co-Founder, Drip Capital, Y-Combinator backed Trade Finance company Zoe Schlag Managing Director, Techstars Andy Kaufman Senior Portfolio Manager, Community Capital Management Maya Chandrasekharan Principal, Menterra Venture Advisors KL Mukesh Mentor, Villgro & Founder, Akeso Healthcare Sachin Rudra Ex-CIO, Acumen Fund Rahil Rangwala Director, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Arun Nair Treasury & Investment Professional, UNICEF Katia Ostrovsky Associate Director, The William and Flora Hewitt Foundation Brian Waldner Vice President, Natixis Global Asset Management Jess Brooks Senior Vice President, Boston Community Capital Jacqui D'Angelo Smith Vice President, Private Client Associate, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Anuj Shah Managing Director, Rally Assets Sunay Shah Executive Director, Axioma Gunjan Banati Director of Risk Management, Royce & Associates Kunal Paymaster Principal, Sightline Partners Marc Rovers Senior Portfolio Manager, Legal & General Investment Management Ishan Manaktala COO & Managing Director, Markit, India Shamik Shah Investment Analyst, Sheffield Asset Management Yury Geyman Managing Director, BlackRock Suraj Kripalani Co-Founder and CEO, BonBillo; Mentor at Startupbootcamp; Previously Strategy Consultant & Portfolio Manager Brian Kim Portfolio Manager, Alpine Global Joe Sweeney Associate, Early Stage Practice, Silicon Valley Bank Pankaj Jethwani Executive Vice President, W Health Ventures Social Impact Alberto Gómez-Obregón Deputy CIO, Acumen Zoe Schlag Managing Director, Techstars Blake Sims Program Director, Social Innovation at Innovate@BU, Boston University & Founder, Epiic Solutions Jalal Ghiasi-Razavi Director, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Andy Kaufman Senior Portfolio Manager, Community Capital Management Maya Chandrasekharan Principal, Menterra Venture Advisors KL Mukesh Mentor, Villgro & Founder, Akeso Healthcare Sachin Rudra Ex-CIO, Acumen Fund Rahil Rangwala Director, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Arun Nair Treasury & Investment Professional, UNICEF Katia Ostrovsky Associate Director, The William and Flora Hewitt Foundation Brian Waldner Vice President, Natixis Global Asset Management Jess Brooks Senior Vice President, Boston Community Capital Jacqui D'Angelo Smith Vice President, Private Client Associate, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Anuj Shah Managing Director, Rally Assets Darby Hobbs Founder and CEO, Social3 & Co-Founder and Chairperson, Conscious Capitalism Boston Chapter Cheryl Kiser Executive Director, Lewis Institute & Babson Social Innovation Lab Lubna Maria Elia Senior Director, Root Capital & Founder, New England Impact Investing Initiative Yaquta Fatehi Impact Assessment Professional, William Davidson Institute at The University of Michigan Suraj Kripalani Co-Founder and CEO, BonBillo; Mentor at Startupbootcamp; Previously Strategy Consultant & Portfolio Manager Julia Turnbull Program Advisor, BonBillo; Fellowship Program Associate, MIT Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship Vandana Goyal Advisor, BonBillo; Board Member and Ex-CEO, Akanksha; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum Pankaj Jethwani Executive Vice President, W Health Ventures Design John Breslin Senior Lecturer, NUI Galway; Director, Galway City Innovation District Neha Swaminathan Associate Director, HSBC Global Banking & Markets Adoniram Sides Senior Product Manager, Upserve Ryan Mulloy Vice President, Customer Engagement & Innovation, Carter Edwards & Co Carlos Baez Senior Experience Designer, Carter Edwards & Co Sarah McDermott UX & Product Designer, Panera Bread Michelle May Co-Founder, Atelier ID Global & Founder, Cirque Du Noir Mayank Kumar Product Lead, BonBillo; Co-Founder, McAwesome Prachi Apte Program Advisor, BonBillo; Director, CWT, Previously Strategy Consultant at Accenture Payal Thiffault Creative Director, BonBillo; Co-Founder, Atelier ID Global Engineering and Data Science Will Sanchez Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Garud Iyengar Department Chair and Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University Karthik Durvasula Assistant Professor, Linguistics & Data Analysis, Michigan State University Moody Hadi Senior Director, Innovation and Product Research, S&P Global John Breslin Senior Lecturer, NUI Galway; Director, Galway City Innovation District Siddhartha Goyal CEO, Nivi Ebrahim Nalwala Founder & MD, IOTAP Dani Ghaida Head of Technology, Dar Group Dan Thiffault Co-Founder and Tech Advisor, BonBillo; Senior Software Engineer, BookBub Mayank Kumar Product Lead, BonBillo; Co-Founder, McAwesome Prachi Apte Program Advisor, BonBillo; Director, CWT, Previously Strategy Consultant at Accenture Brian Kim Portfolio Manager, Alpine Global Leadership, Teamwork and Culture Joshua Wachs Chair of the Board of Overseers at Emerson College Executive Coach Sean Gallagher Founder, Influence Success Kari Heistad CEO, Culture Coach International Rama Kannan Executive Coach and Mentor, Villgro Innovations Foundation Lara Kumar Global Director Total Rewards, McCann Worldgroup Jasmin Ghoul Ex-Google, High Performance Coach and Startup Mentor Rachel O'Neil Chief People Officer, BonBillo; Founder, Peoplenova Sales & Marketing Joshua Wachs Chair of the Board of Overseers at Emerson College Executive Coach Sujay Mashru VP & Managing Director, APAC, LivaNova Lauren Abda Founder, BranchFood and Co-Founder, Branch Venture Group Anuj Shah Managing Director, Rally Assets Sunay Shah Executive Director, Axioma Zoey Farooq Media Relations Lead, West Region, Accenture Shruti Rya Ganguly Filmmaker & Founder, Honto88; Board Member, Center for Social Innovation New York City Kara Zanni eCommerce Manager, FGX International Per Heistad President, iztek - Sales Startup / Scale up Marc Blackmer Product Marketing Manager, Threat Intelligence, Cisco; Founder, 1nterrupt Darby Hobbs Founder and CEO, Social3 & Co-Founder and Chairperson, Conscious Capitalism Boston Chapter Lubna Maria Elia Senior Director, Root Capital & Founder, New England Impact Investing Initiative Mayank Kumar Product Lead, BonBillo; Co-Founder, McAwesome Strategy & Operations Joshua Wachs Chair of the Board of Overseers at Emerson College Executive Coach Sujay Mashru VP & Managing Director, APAC, LivaNova Manasi Mashru Directory, Advisory Services, E&Y Will Sanchez Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Patricia Cotter Associate Managing Director, MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship Imran Sayeed Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, MIT Aditya Pittie Director, Pittie Enterprises Group Rukaiya Rangwala Head - Zaakpay, MobiKwik Avinash Advani Senior Vice President, StarLink Balaji Srinivasan Vice President and Senior Associate Provost, The University of Chicago Micah Chase Adjunct Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute & Founder, eInvite Jalal Ghiasi-Razavi Director, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Zoey Farooq Media Relations Lead, West Region, Accenture Cheryl Kiser Executive Director, Lewis Institute & Babson Social Innovation Lab Lubna Maria Elia Senior Director, Root Capital & Founder, New England Impact Investing Initiative Frederic Bonfanti Advisor, Cyber-security and Defense Ameet Parikh Director, Tranzmute Capital & Management; Previously Partner and Head of Risk & Business Advisory Solutions, E&Y India Swami Swaminathan Ex-Chairman, Manipal Health Enterprises; Previously MD & CEO, Infosys BPO Parul Sahai Instructor & Client Relationship Manager, Training the Street Joshua Hubbard Principal, Ho'okipa Consulting Kunal Dayal Vice President, Tech Mahindra Business Services Ronan Donnelly Global Head of Professional Services, FIS Paul Mitchell Fintech and Blockchain Lead, PwC South Africa Suraj Kripalani Co-Founder and CEO, BonBillo; Mentor at Startupbootcamp; Previously Strategy Consultant & Portfolio Manager Prachi Apte Program Advisor, BonBillo; Director, CWT, Previously Strategy Consultant at Accenture Vandana Goyal Advisor, BonBillo; Board Member and Ex-CEO, Akanksha; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
Social Impact
Alberto Gómez-Obregón
Deputy CIO, Acumen
Zoe Schlag
Managing Director, Techstars
Blake Sims
Program Director, Social Innovation at Innovate@BU, Boston University & Founder, Epiic Solutions
Jalal Ghiasi-Razavi
Director, Allan Gray Orbis Foundation
Andy Kaufman
Senior Portfolio Manager, Community Capital Management
Maya Chandrasekharan
Principal, Menterra Venture Advisors
KL Mukesh
Mentor, Villgro & Founder, Akeso Healthcare
Sachin Rudra
Ex-CIO, Acumen Fund
Rahil Rangwala
Director, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation
Arun Nair
Treasury & Investment Professional, UNICEF
Katia Ostrovsky
Associate Director, The William and Flora Hewitt Foundation
Brian Waldner
Vice President, Natixis Global Asset Management
Jess Brooks
Senior Vice President, Boston Community Capital
Jacqui D'Angelo Smith
Vice President, Private Client Associate, U.S. Trust, Bank of America
Anuj Shah
Managing Director, Rally Assets
Darby Hobbs
Founder and CEO, Social3 & Co-Founder and Chairperson, Conscious Capitalism Boston Chapter
Cheryl Kiser
Executive Director, Lewis Institute & Babson Social Innovation Lab
Lubna Maria Elia
Senior Director, Root Capital & Founder, New England Impact Investing Initiative
Yaquta Fatehi
Impact Assessment Professional, William Davidson Institute at The University of Michigan
Suraj Kripalani
Co-Founder and CEO, BonBillo; Mentor at Startupbootcamp; Previously Strategy Consultant & Portfolio Manager
Julia Turnbull
Program Advisor, BonBillo; Fellowship Program Associate, MIT Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship
Vandana Goyal
Advisor, BonBillo; Board Member and Ex-CEO, Akanksha; Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum
Pankaj Jethwani
Executive Vice President, W Health Ventures