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.