Skoll Scholar 2004-05
Geographical Location: North America
Area of Activity: Health

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Keely Stevenson is an entrepreneur and an investor. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Weal Life, a company focused on leveraging mobile technology to make it easier for people to care for each other, especially during times of health crisis, aging or chronic illness.

Previously, she’s built global initiatives, including in her role as CEO of Bamboo Finance USA. Bamboo is one of the world’s first and largest private equity firms focused on balancing social impact and commercial returns ($250M AUM). She’s also built the world’s first online community for social entrepreneurs, Social Edge, as she was the first employee hired by the CEO of Skoll Foundation.

She has worked on five continents building the field of social entrepreneurship with the United Nations, Acumen Fund, Triodos Bank, Royal Bafokeng Nation and the California Legislature. Keely has lectured around the world on topics such as impact investing, women’s leadership, aging & tech, big data and healthcare.

She studied politics at UC Berkeley and received her MBA from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford through the Skoll Scholarship in 2005. Keely was awarded the honor of being a Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum. She is passionate about highlighting diversity of all sorts contributing to tech and human development globally.