Elise Zhao serves as an impact investing officer for Lumina Impact Ventures as part of Lumina Foundation, an independent, private foundation in Indianapolis that is committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. She works on program integration, investee engagement, transactions, and developing and improving LIV systems and policies.
Before coming to Lumina, Zhao worked at Point B Consulting, a management consulting and venture investment firm There, she served as an analyst on a range of projects, largely in health care.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Chicago, where she is a Maroon MBA Scholar at the Booth School of Business.
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This interview with Elise Zhao was originally published on Phenix Capital’s Faces of Impact.