In 2015, President Obama appointed her Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship to help develop the next generation of entrepreneurs in the U.S. and abroad. 

Julie serves as special advisor to X (formerly Google X), Alphabet’s moonshot factory where breakthrough technologies are developed to solve problems impacting a billion people or more. She is a venture partner at Obvious Ventures, a venture firm that invests in technology companies addressing systemic problems in a profitable and scalable way. Hannah has been an early investor in numerous high growth technology companies including Lyft and Lending Club.

Hanna has been founder, CEO or founding executive of five Silicon Valley, venture-backed companies. Among them, Healtheon (now WebMD), onebox.com, Portola and open source innovator, Scalix. She has pioneered numerous groundbreaking technologies and products that are internet mainstays today, enabling tens of millions of people to connect, communicate and collaborate on a global scale. 

Hanna is an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer on purpose-driven profit and the democratizing potential of technology to create a more just, free and abundant world. In recognition of her vision and global impact on economic and social progress, she was named the United States Woman Icon of APEC and is a recipient of the 2016 Global Empowerment Award.  

“Serving as Kiva’s Executive Chair for the last 12 years has been the humbling honor of a lifetime. As a Coptic Egyptian, as a refugee of war, as an American immigrant, I have lived and witnessed the hope and dignity that is restored, and the human potential that is unlocked when we gain fair access. Especially fair access to capital.”

Founded by TPG in partnership with Bono and Jeff Skoll, and with more than $6 billion in assets under management, Rise invests in growth-stage, high potential, mission-driven companies that have the power to change the world.

Chorengel is a long-term impact, private equity and venture capital investor who believes that “billions, especially in low income communities, lack access to fundamental services that could meaningfully improve their lives, not because providing these services is commercially unviable, but because our generation has not applied their imagination and will to innovate and create commercially grounded solutions. Applying market approaches and capital to solving social and environmental challenges is not only possible, but also critical to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.”

Prior to joining TPG, Chorengel was a co-founder of Elevar Equity, a leading impact venture capital firm with a track record of top quartile financial returns and meaningful impact on over 20 million low-income households in Asia and Latin America. Prior to Elevar, Chorengel was Managing Director of the Dignity Fund, a private investment fund focused on local currency debt financing for high-growth microfinance institutions globally, and was previously at Warburg Pincus. Chorengel serves as on the boards of Benevity, SEO, Varo Money, TPG Inc., and Nithio in addition to Kiva. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of CASE i3 at Duke University, the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative, and co-authored a Harvard Business Review article entitled “Calculating the Value of Impact Investing.” Chorengel earned an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

“Having known Kiva since its very early days, I was thrilled to join Kiva’s board in 2015. I believe Kiva serves a unique role, given its non-profit charter, in helping drive individual connectivity and massive scale to meet the goal of financial inclusion globally.”

As a board member, Chorengel is active on the organization’s audit committee and provides input on areas related to microfinance, emerging markets, capital formation and strategic issues.

Haddad grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, where he witnessed the horrors of the civil war that tore that country apart for 15 years. He left Beirut in October 1989 after his home was bombed and has experienced the challenges encountered by immigrants and refugees seeking a better future. He pursued higher education in France where he graduated from HEC Paris in 1995.

In 1999, Andre co-founded iBazar, the pioneering European consumer to consumer e-commerce marketplace. iBazar became the leading marketplace player in Europe and was acquired by eBay in 2002. Haddad played several roles during his time at eBay, including GM in Europe, VP, International Operations, and VP, User Experience and Design, and Senior Vice President, Product, where he was responsible for product management, design, and research at eBay’s $50B+ global marketplace business.

In 2011, Andre became the CEO at Turo, the pioneering peer to peer car sharing leader. He has been building an exponentially growing business whose mission is to put the world’s 1.5B cars to better use.

“Over the past 14 years as a lender on Kiva, I have witnessed the magic of a $25 loan empowering an entrepreneur to pursue their dreams and change their life and their community’s lives for the better. It has left me with a profound connection to Kiva’s mission and admiration for its impact. I am incredibly excited to support the Kiva team in the next phase of growth, scale and impact. I strongly believe that Kiva has only scratched the surface of the opportunity it is pursuing and I am thrilled to share my 20 years of experience in building, growing and scaling marketplaces and in designing delightful consumer web experiences.”

He possesses a unique understanding of consumer behavior and the dynamics of viral businesses, as well as deep experience in driving companies from the earliest stages through periods of explosive, “blitzscale” growth. Ranging from LinkedIn to PayPal, from Airbnb to Convoy to Facebook, he invests in businesses with network effects and collaborates on building their product ecosystems.

Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional networking service, in 2003. LinkedIn is thriving with more than 500 million members around the world and a diversified revenue model that includes subscriptions, advertising, and software licensing. He led LinkedIn through its first four years and to profitability as Chief Executive Officer. In 2016 LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft, and he became a board member of Microsoft.

Prior to LinkedIn, Hoffman served as executive vice president at PayPal, where he was also a founding board member.

Hoffman joined Greylock Partners in 2009. He focuses on building products that can reach hundreds of millions of participants and businesses that have network effects. He currently serves on the boards of Airbnb, Apollo Fusion, Aurora, Coda, Convoy, Entrepreneur First, Microsoft, Nauto, Xapo, and a few early stage companies still in stealth. In addition, he serves on a number of not-for-profit boards, including Endeavor, CZI Biohub, Do Something, New America, Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Initiative, the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change, and Kiva. Prior to joining Greylock, he angel invested in many influential Internet companies, including Facebook, Flickr, Last.fm, and Zynga.

Hoffman is the co-author of three best-selling books: The Start-up of You, The Alliance, and Blitzscaling. Hoffman is the host of Masters of Scale, an original podcast series and the first American media program to commit to a 50-50 gender balance for featured guests.

Hoffman earned a master’s degree in philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree with distinction in symbolic systems from Stanford University. In 2010 he was the recipient of an SD Forum Visionary Award and named a Henry Crown Fellow by The Aspen Institute. In 2012, he was honored by the Martin Luther King center’s Salute to Greatness Award. Also in 2012, he received the David Packard Medal of Achievement from TechAmerica and an honorary doctor of law from Babson University. In 2017, he was appointed as a CBE by her majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

“Entrepreneurship is economic self-empowerment, for individuals and for societies. Kiva brings the power of networks and marketplaces to enable individuals in many emerging parts of the world, to support themselves and their communities. I love Kiva’s mission, and my network and skillset is well aligned to work alongside.”

Previously, Silvija was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Groupon’s International business where she partnered with Kiva and first “fell in love” with Kiva’s mission. Before her experience in consumer technology companies, Silvija spent a decade in the investment management industry where she focused on socially-responsible, female, and minority-owned funds. Silvija earned her B.A. in Economics at Beloit College and an M.B.A. in Econometrics and Statistics from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Silvija has a longstanding passion for delivering economic empowerment to underserved communities. This passion was ignited based on her own experience growing up in Croatia during a communist era and immigrating to the U.S. at the age of 17 after the Balkan wars.

“I fell in love with Kiva while at Groupon after seeing the power of this global marketplace to engage employees and enable lenders to fund the dreams of borrowers. I am thrilled to bring my own passion and experience across investing for social impact and growing global marketplaces to Kiva and help this amazing organization scale economic access and empowerment in communities around the world.”

Previously, Muller was General Counsel (2000-2013) and Vice President of Payments Policy (2013-2017) for PayPal. He helped PayPal through its regulatory licensing, acquisition by eBay, launch of merchant services and international expansion. Before joining PayPal, Muller was a partner at the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison.

Muller previously served on the Board of WAGES (Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security), now known as Prospera, a nonprofit organization that raises capital and provides technical assistance to help low-income women operate cooperative businesses.  He spent 10 years growing up living in Guatemala and Paraguay.

“I’m excited to be on Kiva’s Board to help people around the world use their entrepreneurial energy to strengthen  their families and their communities. I’m focused on supporting the Kiva management team as they address the regulatory issues in delivering innovative financial services.”