Aunnie Patton Power

Aunnie is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an innovative finance advisory firm and a university lecturer on Innovative Finance, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact.  At the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, she holds the title Associate Fellow, as well as Entrepreneur in Residence at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. At the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Graduate School of Business, she holds the title Adjunct Faculty, as well as Senior Advisor to the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. She is also a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics’ Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship and a founding member of the Dazzle Angels, a female angel investing group.

A reformed M&A investment banker, Aunnie began her impact investing career in 2010 with Unitus Capital in Bangalore and has since worked with start-ups, intermediaries, funds, family offices, foundations, corporates and governments across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Aunnie’s work has been published throughout the world, including by the Oxford University Press, the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), the World Economic Forum, Impact Investing Policy Collaboration and as a Massive Open Online Course on Coursera. Her first book, (ad)venture finance, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021.