Finance: Organizational Financial Health During and After COVID-19

Nina has eight years’ experience in the food industry. She is one of the architects of Rabobank’s startup innovation platform, FoodBytes!, and now oversees startup relationship management, communications and community engagement strategy. She was formerly the events, editorial and creative head at Food+Tech Connect and the creative project manager at Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group. nt...

Elizabeth works with the Draper Richards Kaplan team to identify and support innovative social entrepreneurs. Prior to joining DRK, Elizabeth spent five years at management consulting firm Bain & Company in their San Francisco, New Delhi, Madrid and London offices. She worked across a range of functions and industries that included enterprise and consumer technology, eCommerce, hospitality and private equity due diligence. Elizabeth supported undergraduate recruiting and mentorship, served in a rotation as lead recruiter for undergraduates and spearheaded multiple collaborations with a Bain social impact partner organization in environmental conservation in the Bay Area. Midway through her tenure at Bain, Elizabeth took a sabbatical to pursue a Princeton in Latin America fellowship at Endeavor Global in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She evaluated high-impact, for-profit entrepreneurs applying for Endeavor support and worked internally on Endeavor Argentina’s strategic planning process. Elizabeth received her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her bachelor’s degree from Princeton

Jeannie leads accelerator programs at Acumen, a global non-profit venture fund that invests in entrepreneurial leaders tackling problems of poverty. In her role, she manages accelerators for nonprofit leaders and social entrepreneurs, and supports leaders across sectors as they work to generate new sources of mission-aligned revenue and scale their enterprises. Prior to joining Acumen, she worked at Teach For America, managing school partnerships and leading community strategy and operations in Oakland. She started her career as a middle school classroom teacher in San Francisco. Jeannie holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Dartmouth College. She’s based in the San Francisco Bay Area.