Executive DirectorEzrah Charitable Trust
Charlene loves being an "extrapreneur" connecting, mentoring, advising, and investing in entrepreneurs, intrepreneurs, and social enterprises. She has nearly 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. Charlene began her career as an IT consultant at Deloitte Consulting, but after earning an MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, spent 4 years working for non-profits improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in East Africa (KickStart International and TechnoServe). For 8 years, she served as the COO of socially impactful venture-capital backed businesses in the fintech and healthtech industries, and co-founded a global community of COOs and operations professionals called Operations Nation. Now Charlene is thrilled to bring all this "doer" experience to her role as ED of Ezrah Charitable Trust.