Paola Masperi

Overview

Impact entrepreneur with over ten years experience working in developing countries on a variety of sustainable development education and poverty reduction initiatives using digital technologies for education trade not aid skills training micro finance entrepreneurship women empowerment ethical fashion and fintech. Founder of the Mayamiko Trust a non for profit organisation using skills training and education to create trade not aid income generation opportunities for disadvantaged communities and Mayamiko The Label an ethical fashion brand producing sustainably and ethically in Malawi. Digital Strategy (DipM MCIM) Communications & Change Professional with extensive Project Management (Prince2 & AgilePM certified practitioner) experience in the Financial Digital Public Multimedia Technology Non for Profit and Retail sectors. Proven track record developing and delivering global end to end digital strategies. Strong background in communications for change management culture and values business transformation stakeholder and employee engagement corporate training citizenship and community investment. Extensive experience in client and customer facing roles strong stakeholder management and thought leadership highly focussed on business growth and development confident managing agencies and suppliers. Singularity University 2017 graduate completed the Global Solutions Programme (GSP) funded by Google. Singularity University is a global community using exponential technologies to tackle the world s biggest challenges. GSP is a 9 week immersive residential experience at NASA Research Park in Mountain View CA bringing together dreamers and inspired solvers with unique skill sets experiences and passions and empowers them to develop moonshot innovations addressing humanity s grand challenges by leveraging exponential technology and entrepreneurial tools. Native Italian with board level English and German intermediate Spanish.