Profit Meets Purpose: Using Capital and Technology to Build a Future We Actually Want

Shu Dar Yao is a responsible investing advisor who teaches financiers about social and climate inequality. She supports venture capital, private equity, and wealth managers that seek market-rate returns, and her scope of work has included designing responsible investing policies and reports, fund structuring, supporting investor relations teams to respond to LP inquiries, and preparing companies for public listing.

At RSF Social Finance, she served as Chairwoman of the Investment Committee and rewrote the firm’s investment policy statement, impact reporting strategy, and restructured the firm’s fund of fund and direct equity portfolios. At Social Finance, she led Capital Formation and Investor Relations. At Citigroup, she structured fixed-income green bonds, microfinance fund investments, and social and cleantech enterprise investments. At the World Bank’s IFC, she developed the $4bn Global Infrastructure Crisis Facility. She started her career as an investment banker at JPMorgan where she worked in M&A, Syndicated Leveraged Finance and Private Equity Sponsors.

Shu Dar received her MBA from MIT Sloan, BS from NYU Stern and has been recognized by the Sorenson Impact Center as a Global Impact Leader. She lives with her husband and two children in Bernal Heights, San Francisco Cali
 

Cory Donovan is Co-founder & SVP of Community Engagement  at ImpactPHL. ImpactPHL is non-profit advocacy organization that encourages and helps individuals and organizations align their financial assets with their values in order to create a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient economy in the Philadelphia region. 

Cory’s background in economic development and community building includes roles operating a tech startup incubator and as the Executive Director of the Roanoke-Blacksburg Technology Council. His prior corporate experience includes various positions with well known tech firms Hughes, DIRECTV, and Aerotek. Cory has a degree from the University of Scranton and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. 

His personal interests include playing sports (particularly pickup basketball), hip hop & old school rap, home improvement, stand-up comedy, classic cars, and animal welfare.

As a director on the Responsible Technology team, Aniyia works to help the tech world live up to its promise of changing lives for the better.

Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Aniyia founded Black & Brown Founders, a nonprofit that helps Black and Latinx entrepreneurs launch tech businesses. She continues to serve as the organization’s board chair, as well as serving as a convener of the Black Innovation Alliance. Previously, Aniyia co-founded of Zebras Unite, an entrepreneur-led movement focused on creating a more ethical and sustainable startup ecosystem through capital, culture, and community. Aniyia also co-founded the Firefly Alliance, a women’s leadership community, and founded Tinsel, a fashion technology company. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Aniyia held roles in marketing, business development, and nonprofit fundraising.

Aniyia holds a B.A. in music, with minors in business and Italian, from Penn State University. She was a Bunton-Waller Fellow and graduated with honors in Italian and musicology, as well as the Josephine Rhea Award for Excellence in Italian studies. In 2019, Aniyia was honored by Penn State with the esteemed Alumni Achievement Award, presented to prominent alumni 35 and younger.

Meghan is the Co-CEO of Diversity VC, a nonprofit dedicated to unlocking the full potential of the economy for all by shaping a fairer venture capital ecosystem. She began her career in the nonprofit world but transitioned into venture capital to help democratize access to funding for historically overlooked founders. This mission took her to Lima, Peru, where she founded and led INCA Ventures, a fintech fund focused on underrepresented founders in the Andean region. From 2020 to 2022, Meghan served on the Board of the Peru Venture Capital Association (PECAP), and in 2021, she became its youngest and first woman President.

Meghan's passion for positive change extends beyond venture capital. With a lifelong interest in using media for social good, she wrote her Master’s thesis on the educational power of Sesame Street and conducted archival research for two documentaries, including Bill Nye: Science Guy, which premiered at SXSW and was featured on PBS's Independent Lens.