TBLI Talk: How to make your Investments Impactful

Audrey Selian serves as Director of Artha Impact (Rianta Capital Zurich), a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust and is co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. (ANI), a SaaS platform that has been licensed to various ecosystem-building organizations working to support investment discovery and collaboration across various sectors and geographies. Audrey’s focus within the Artha portfolio has been on the deployment of private capital to high impact businesses serving the underserved in India in the agri, health and education sectors, among others. 

Audrey has served as an advisor to Halloran, is co-founder of ImpactforBreakfast.com, a network of over 3,500+ people across 33+ cities, and is also co-founder of Impact Hub Yerevan in Armenia and of Baraka Impact (an emerging market focused health-focused investment platform). Audrey holds degrees from the Fletcher School at Tufts University (PhD, MALD), the L.S.E. (MSc) and Wellesley College (BA). In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard in 2004-5. In 2022, she co-edited a book called “The Business of Building a Better World" with Prof. David Cooperrider from Case Western Reserve, published by Berrett Koehler Publishers in 2022.

Three things people will learn:

1. What not to do in the impact finance sector
2. How to find the good people who get s*** done
3. How to avoid the posers and the imposters