Joanna Yeo

Partner at Arukah Capital

Speaker

Joanna Yeo is the founder of Arukah, which is scaling high integrity waste to energy and carbon removal in Asia and Africa, with a 50% income share to participating local ecosystems. She has strong conviction on the potential to lift billions out of poverty with verified data, new technology for secure payments and settlement, and financing for scalable access to sustainable, fast growing markets. Joanna is currently an impact investment committee member of the UN Sanitation and Hygiene Fund, an advisor to Figure Technologies, and has previously served as an independent non-executive board director of Collectius, a SE Asian partner for the World Bank IFC's $40Bn DARP program. She started her career in private equity at Morgan Stanley and Keppel Corporation, and in data science at Stanford and Harvard. Joanna holds degrees from Harvard, Stanford and Cambridge.