About Us
Impact With Wings is a group of seven women angel investors who have graduated from the Pipeline Fellowship Bay Area Class of 2013. Check out our website to learn more.
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| Suzanne Andrews Founding Partner, Wingpact |
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| Jagruti Shah Bhikha Founder, Rinnovo Consulting |
Jagruti Bhikha is a seasoned technical leader and strategist.
Jagruti works with professional women to develop their leadership skills
and enhance their career potential through workshops and small group
coaching programs. She is an expert in innovating programs related to
building her practice under the brand name the Leadership DIVA
specifically geared towards the technical women and south asian
professional and technical women. She is also a regular speaker on
topics relating to Women In Leadership: Some of her most requested
topics are such as Develop your personal DIVA traits, Leadership
Presence for the South Asian Professional Women, Public, Speaking and
Presentation Skills for The Technical Women. She holds a BS in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from NYU-POLY, and an MS in
Project Management from George Washington University.
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Karen Bairley Kruger
Impact Investor and Writer
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Karen Bairley Kruger is an Impact Investor, Writer and Mother of four. She holds
a B.A. in Psychology from the College of William and Mary and a M.S. in
Counseling from San Francisco
State University. Karen has worked previously with children and
adolescents, teaching and counseling Japan and Hawaii, respectively. She
is passionate about increasing cultural awareness as a part of early
education and expanding leadership opportunities for women and
minorities. Karen is a Pipeline Fellowship alumna and an active angel
investor in female-founded social-impact companies. She is dedicated to leveling the playing field by empowering women to support, hire, and
invest in each other.
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| Christine Emilie Lim Technology Marketer | Food Blogger |
Christine has extensive marketing experience in Silicon Valley both in a Fortune 500, Symantec, and technology start-ups, such as Mercantila (acquired), MarketTools (acquired) and most recently, Egnyte. She is an angel investor focusing on social enterprises and runs a food blog on gastronomypix.com primarily about foodtech startups in the Bay Area. Christine received a MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands and a B.S. Business Administration in Marketing and International Studies from the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington. She has lived in multiple countries but calls Cebu City, Philippines her first home. Christine is passionate in food systems, sustainability and health.
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| Wingee Sin Head of Global Product Strategy, State Street |
Wingee is the Head of Global Product Strategy within State Street
Global Advisor’s Defined Contribution business. In her capacity, she is
responsible for developing product strategy for the global DC business.
Prior to the DC initiative, She joined State Street within the Global
Markets division in 2009, and headed up sales in the non-Japan Asia
region, representing Portfolio Solutions capabilities to central banks,
sovereign wealth, and pensions in the region. Wingee has 14 years of
experience in the buy and sell sides of the capital markets. Prior to
State Street, she was a Senior Investment Strategist for BGI’s
quantitative hedge fund business, representing the firm’s offerings to
institutional investors in the US and Asia. Prior to joining BGI in
2004, Wingee worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Equity
Derivatives Strategy team, where she authored research on derivatives
strategies. Wingee received her BA in economics and East Asian
developmental studies from University of California at Berkeley. She is a
Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst and has earned the Chartered
Financial Analyst Designation. Her interest in development sprouted from
her undergraduate days at Berkeley, with a specific passion for social
enterprises. She has been a board member for Foundation for Sustainable
Development since 2004, and is the chair for the State Street Foundation
San Francisco Chapter.
Hana is a Partner at Manos, where she is focused
on building an ecosystem of Latino entrepreneurs, angel investors, and
venture capitalists. Hana is a founding member
of the Manos Angel Network, where she leads the Manos Angel Bootcamp, a
development program for new angel investors. Before Manos, Hana worked at crowdfunding and e-commerce startups in strategic and operational roles. Prior to joining the tech startup world, Hana held strategic and operational positions at Adobe, the United Nations Population Fund Agency, and Capgemini Consulting. Hana was raised in Puerto Iguazu, Argentina, and
speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently. She has lectured on the topic
of crowdfunding at Argentinean and Bolivian universities. Hana has a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and a M.S. in Fundraising Management from Columbia University. Hana is passionate about bridging communities through innovation, revolutionary ideas and social impact investments.
