Management

Jane Ge

Founding Manager

Jane started Vectors Angel in 2019 to enable collaboration between like-minded impact-focused companies and investors. She is an investment manager with Goldwind Innovation Capital, cleantech researcher/entrepreneurship program manager at UC Berkeley, and President of the Energy Innovation Network. She holds an M.S. from Cornell University on Sustainable Design Studies and a BAS.c on Energy System Engineering from the University of Toronto.

Sachiye Koide

Program Manager

Sachi was a member of the first cohort of Vectors Angel Fellows. She graduated from Cornell University magna cum laude with a BS in Biological Engineering and now focuses on biotechnology, sustainable materials, and health in sourcing companies. She led the deals for Tinctorium Bio and Hue.Ai. Sachi cares deeply about the environment, conservation, and systemic change.  She is also an avid rock climber and mountaineer and volunteers at the Wildlife Center of San Jose.

Marketing Manager

Pin Pin joined Vectors Angel as a Fellow in the first cohort to pursue her passion in deep tech commercialization and impact investing. She graduated Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Stanford University with her research focusing on computational psychology. Now she works on her own startup in AI and Serverless applications in Bangkok, Thailand. She believes in the power of people collaboration in making the world a better place.

Investment fellows

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TABONG KIMA

Tabong Kima is a Financial Analyst at Auldbrass Partners. He joined the firm in late 2017. He is responsible for portfolio monitoring, investment evaluation, and transaction sourcing and analysis. Prior to Auldbrass, Tabong held a position at TriLinc Global where he worked on sourcing and monitoring impact credit investments. Mr. Kima received a BA in International Studies from the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as a BSE in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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WILLIE MACDADE

Willie advises financial institutions (e.g., banks and FinTechs) on regulatory and ESG challenges. He focuses on assessing corporate climate disclosures against frameworks (e.g., TCFD, SASB) and advocating for adoption of earnest sustainability efforts within companies. He is optimistic about the role that corporations and innovation will play in building a better, greener society and is excited to learn about the startups making it happen through Vectors Angel. In a former life, Willie worked as a wrangler on a dude ranch in Montana.

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MATT MORRIS

Matt is a Boston College and Boston University alumnus focused on helping cleantech startups cross the commercialization gap. Through Vectors Angels, he is interested in learning more about how investors strategically employ resources to bolster the mission of a venture and its founders. Additionally, Matt is interested in reforming and developing new institutions to deploy capital to promote pilot and demo projects for renewable energy technologies.

Summer 2020 cohort

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CRISTINA PAULSEN

Cristina is an MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas. She is very passionate about impact investing and sustainable finance. She joined Vectors Angel to deepen her experiences in early stage investing and sustainability. She is looking forward to apply her financial and business expertise to support entrepreneurs looking for sustainable and innovative solutions to environmental challenges.

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NANCY TANGUAY

Nancy has joined Vectors Angel to learn how to support the startups providing solutions to our global social and environmental challenges and supplement her experience with responsible investing.  Recently earning a Master’s degree in Sustainability, Nancy is building Future Island Impact, a company with intentions to transition the full force of the retail investment market to impact investments by providing solutions to financial advisors.  

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NAVIYA KOTHARI

Naviya recently graduated from Cornell with a BS in Operations Research and Engineering. Her passion lies at the intersection of tech, impact, and entrepreneurship. Through Vectors Angel, she is keen to understand the fundamentals of impact investing and help other innovatively helping others. Naviya's most interested in solutions that can serve people – specifically, those empowering women, democratizing personalized education, and tackling inequality.

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ROXY RONG

Roxy is a derivative trader and currently manages a quant strategy research group. She is also the co-founder of Build312, a non-profit organization that serves the entrepreneurial community in the Chicago area. She is passionate about helping startups address social and environmental challenges through impact investing.

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TIASHA AYUMI SHAFIQ

Tiasha is a PhD Candidate in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University, where she leads projects on investigating epigenetic inheritance. She is passionate about utilizing her scientific expertise in the development of life sciences ventures to create sustainable social change. She joined Vectors Angel to explore and contribute to the advancement of impact investing.

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VALENTINA XU

Valentina is a rising junior at Cornell University majoring in Hotel Administration and minoring in Real Estate and International Relations. She has helped a Syrian refugee start a restaurant and been a speaker at the TEDx conference. She is passionate about global social impact through entrepreneurship and activism. She joined Vectors Angel to explore impact investing and to apply the knowledge to help social entrepreneurs one day. She enjoys traveling to developing countries and art museums.

Winter 2019-2020 cohort

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SHREYAS

KRISHNASWAMY

Shreyas is an electrical engineering and computer science undergraduate from UC Berkley. He enjoys working with Vectors Angel to support tech companies in the sustainability sector. He loves to see how emerging tech like VR/AR, robotics, and more can be used to solve some of our most pressing issues like climate change and healthcare.

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JESSICA KARR

Jessica consults in food tech and biotech on product strategy, worked in R&D at Impossible Foods for 6 years, has an MS in Biochemistry from UCSD and an MBA in Sustainable Management. She is the Head of Product & Research at UMANA, advises 2 plant-based start-ups, and is an active mentor at IndieBio and Plug and Play Food. Jessica joined Vectors Angel to apply her technical and product knowledge towards angel investing with a mission-aligned angel community.

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PANG (THITIRAT)

SITTAKARADEJ

Pang is a second-year MBA student at UC Berkeley, Haas. She is very passionate about impact investing and global development. She joined Vectors Angel to deepen her experiences in impact investing and to apply her financial and industry expertises to support enterprenuers who work to provide sustainable solutions for social and environmental challenges.

Summer 2019 cohort

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DEREK MENG

Derek is a consultant at a management consultancy firm where he provides technical due diligence for utility-scale energy storage projects. Derek joined Vectors Angel to learn more about the investor due diligence process as part of his goal of founding a microgrid development and utility company. He is passionate about distributed energy and the ongoing decarbonization revolution in both the energy and transportation sectors.

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ARPAN SOPARKAR

With solid training and work-experience in data-intensive software development, Arpan is currently working on a career pivot to venture capital. During the fellowship, he focused on Food and Health sectors. His favorite parts were conducting due diligence on startups, and putting up a VC panel discussion event on 'Investments in Sustainable Food Technologies'.

Valentina Xu

Summer 2020 cohort

Valentina is a rising junior at Cornell University majoring in Hotel Administration and minoring in Real Estate and International Relations. She has helped a Syrian refugee start a restaurant and been a speaker at the TEDx conference. She is passionate about global social impact through entrepreneurship and activism. She joined Vectors Angel to explore impact investing and to apply the knowledge to help social entrepreneurs one day. She enjoys traveling to developing countries and art museums.

More about us and Community Advisers 

Our team and community advisers includes: an MIT, Stanford, and two Cornell alumni, a Berkeley PhD, President of the Energy Innovation Network, Goldwind Corporate Venture Strategy Investment Manager, SK hynix Senior Manager of Venture Investment, and an MIT Entrepreneurship Mentor/Coach. Additionally, our Fellowship program recruits top scientists, MBAs, entrepreneurs, and more that aid in the due diligence process. We also work closely with top tier impact focused VCs in Silicon Valley which provide supports and advisory to our startup companies. We started this group a year ago and do all the work on a volunteer basis.

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PINAK JOSHI

Pinak is a Harvard trained physician who now works as a drug safety physician in the pharmaceutical industry. After working with several healthcare startups during medical school and training, Pinak became curious about the inner workings of private equity, particularly as it pertains to impact investing using a blended value model. Pinak looks forward to working in impact investing in the healthcare and biopharmaceutical sector.

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APOORV GUPTA

Apoorv is an MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He comes from a healthcare background, having earned a PhD in Biological Engineering and worked in the biopharmaceutical industry prior to business school. He is interested in combining his deep technical and business expertise to help life sciences startups mobilize innovative solutions and improve patient lives. He joined Vectors Angels to learn how impact investing can be used to create sustainable value and ideas to address critical societal challenges.

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RAMA MYERS

Rama is a VP at Seeing Machines, an industry leader in vision-based operator monitoring technology, where he leads the commercialization of Seeing Machines' technology portfolio of AI/ML algorithms, embedded processing and optics to the global Aviation industry. Rama has experience in developing new markets, engaging stakeholders and channel partners, and paving the way for new technology adoption in complex markets. As an active angel investor, Rama funds world positive, clean tech and sustainability focused founders to execute on ambitious visions to make a positive dent in the world. He is passionate about energy innovations, the rapid decarbonization of transportation, driving circularity adoption, and waste reduction.

Winter 2021 cohort

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