Full Name
Lisa Willems
Job Title
Founder, Board President
Company
Alpha Mundi
Speaker Bio
Lisa Willems is the Founder and President of AlphaMundi Foundation, a 501c3 that provides catalytic capital to SMEs with a focus on gender and climate. Lisa also worked as Managing Director with AlphaMundi Group, a Swiss-based impact investment advisor, and managed the group's impact-debt fund that invested with a gender lens in social enterprises in Latin America and Africa. Beyond her Board role with AlphaMundi, Lisa founded Catalytic Capital Consulting, an LLC that provides strategic management and advisory services to investors, NGOs, and companies with a social mission. Prior to AlphaMundi Lisa served as Director of Investments at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation where she was a member of a three-person team responsible for overseeing all aspects of management of the USD 600 million endowment and played an integral role in building a new investment process. Lisa also spent four years working as a management consultant in New York predominantly at Oliver Wyman. She teaches impact investing at as an adjunct professor at American University in Washington, DC and she holds BAs in Economics and Public Policy from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
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