Laina Raveendran Greene is a serial entrepreneur and social impact investor, whose passion is female empowerment, and enabling women to be key agents to help alleviate poverty in Asia.  

During work travels through 47 countries, Laina became passionate about the potential for technology to change lives for the better, and looked for innovative business and financing models to enable remote and poor communities to access technology. "We needed a different model and I set out to find it. I came across grassroots social entrepreneurship and found it to be a more sustainable to bridge the digital and energy divide. In a way, I was working on social enterprise models long before I’d ever heard of the term ‘social enterprise’!”

An alumna of National University of Singapore, the Graduate Institute and Harvard University, Laina was one of the very first female techpreneurs in Singapore, when she started an e-learning company in 1997. In 2000, she founded Silicon Valley-based consultancy GETIT Inc, focusing on greening the IT and telecom industry and using ICT to help reduce GHG in other industries. She has since co-founded Angels of Impact, a tech platform which connects women-led social entreprises working on alleviating poverty with conscious consumers, funders and corporates.

Laina also serves as Goodwill Ambassador to Unltd Indonesia, as Senior Adjunct Lecturer at National University of Singapore and Associate Director (Community Development) of the Asia Center for Social Entrepreneurship & Philanthropy. 

Connect with Laina at www.linkedin.com/in/laina for more information.