FounderThandeka Travel
Erin Summe is the founder of Thandeka Travel, an Africa-based company that connects impact investors directly with local organizations addressing clean energy, health care and education. Through intimate immersions, Thandeka aims to create relationships and dialogues that will allow funders to better understand the needs of a community and what kind of solutions will work within a unique context. In 2020 the team launched Thandeka Capital, a platform to identify, partner with, and raise capital for socially and environmentally sustainable investment funds around the world. Erin previously spent 5 years at Morgan Stanley as a trader in Equity Derivatives and 3 years in South Africa working with a non-profit in HIV prevention. She studied Economics at Georgetown University and received her MBA from London Business School in 2015.