Suraj Kripalani, CFA

I am Co-founder and CEO at BonBillo, a social impact accelerator helping entrepreneurs launch and grow startups contributing towards the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals. 👩🏽‍⚕️ 🥗 📚 💰 🌳 I serve as an advisor at the New England Impact Investing Initiative (NEIII), whose goal is to advance the regional impact ecosystem. I also serve as mentor at MassChallenge Boston and Startupbootcamp Afritech, top global accelerator programs, and have contributed as a judge for startup pitch events at MassChallenge, MIT and Harvard with Plug and Play Ventures, Boston University and IIT Kharagpur. 🚀 I’m passionate about social entrepreneurship and enjoy speaking about it. I’ve been honored to share my learnings at the ‘Perspectives on UN SDGs' event jointly hosted by Net Impact Boston, WISE-Boston, Boston Chapter of BASIC and NEIII in 2018, at Yale Investment Management Club in 2018, at Babson Entrepreneurship Forum in 2017 and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2019. 🎤 I began my career at BlackRock in 2004 and held roles in risk and portfolio management for fixed income portfolios over 8 years in New York and London. During my time in London, BlackRock's flagship European corporate fund performance put it in the top quartile of funds. 📈 My passion for social ventures led me to help launch the Nalanda Education Technology Program, a blended-learning program using an offline version of Khan Academy in low-income Indian schools, in 2013. The program has grown across 3 Indian cities, and shown a positive impact on learning outcomes and engagement levels. 👨‍🏫 📚 💻 From 2015 to 2017, I guided Indian business teams with total revenues exceeding $400 million to execute business transformation plans resulting in an improvement in performance. 📊 I'm a proud Columbia and Purdue alum, and have attended MIT’s Entrepreneurship Development Program. I’ve lived in the U.S., U.K., India and Middle East and enjoy sports and traveling. 🦁 🚂 🏏 🌎