Charlene Chen

With an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California - Berkeley and a B.S. in Psychology and Computer Science from Duke University, Charlene has 15 years of private sector and social sector experience working with a variety of organizations ranging from startup/scaleups to international non-profits to Fortune 500 companies. She began her career as an IT consultant at Deloitte Consulting, but during business school made a career shift to focus on social entrepreneurship and ICTD (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) in sub-Saharan Africa. Charlene has worked in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Senegal and Gabon. Charlene has a broad spectrum of managerial and entrepreneurial experience ranging from strategic planning, building and scaling global teams, new product development, marketing, sales, and partnership development. In general, she is passionate about how to put into place the optimal people, systems and processes to empower organizations to maximize their impact.