AVPN Global Conference 2023 | 20 - 22 June 2023

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Audrey Selian
Director, Social Investment

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Artha Impact (Rianta Capital)

About

Audrey Selian currently serves as Director of the Artha Initiative associated with Rianta Capital Zurich, an investment advisory to a family trust. She has been active in the impact investing sector since 2006, and is founder of Artha Networks Inc., an online impact investment 'operating system' platform that is designed to tackle the economics of due diligence around high impact, small scale SMEs/SGBs. Audrey has a particular interest in high impact sustainable businesses, and has focused on building an investment portfolio in India, while helping find ways to galvanize like-minded 'impact' investors. Audrey has a background in management consulting from PricewaterhouseCoopers, and her entrepreneurial experience includes several years spent in business development, marketing and sales at an NSF-funded software start-up called Wireless Grids Corporation that originated from within Fletcher. She currently serves as a trustee for several non-profit organizations, sits on the board of several for-profit organizations, and credits her doctoral studies in technology policy & development Fletcher for the unique path she has been able to follow. She also holds degrees from The London School of Economics and Wellesley College. In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.