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Charlene Chen

Executive DirectorEzrah Charitable Trust

Biography

Charlene loves being an "extrapreneur" connecting, mentoring, advising, and investing in entrepreneurs, intrepreneurs, and social enterprises. She has 20 years of private sector and social sector experience working with a variety of organizations ranging from tech startup/scaleups to international non-profits to Fortune 500 companies. She began her career as an IT consultant at Deloitte Consulting, followed by 4 years working with smallholder farmers in East Africa, followed by 8 years as the COO of socially impactful venture-capital backed businesses in the fintech and health tech industries. Charlene now serves as the Executive Director of The Ezrah Charitable Trust, a private family foundation focused on job and wealth creation in sub-Saharan Africa.