Board Of Member

Almaz Negash

Board Member

Ms. Almaz Negash is the founder of African Diaspora Network (ADN). In 2010, she founded ADN to inform and engage Africans in the diaspora in order to facilitate direct collaboration with social entrepreneurs, innovators and business leaders to invest and improve the lives of everyone on the continent. Under her leadership and vision, ADN is now the home of The African Diaspora Investment Symposium (ADIS), a market place for investors and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.

Negash also serves as the Senior Managing Director of Step Up Silicon Valley, a social innovation network utilizing disruptive, research-based strategies to reduce poverty and increase economic opportunity in Silicon Valley. The latest of her contributions to community economic development include her leadership in exploration and incubation of Pay for Success (aka Social Impact Bond), a new model of social innovation financing that resulted in a $6 million project to reduce homelessness in Santa Clara County.

She is a frequently sought out speaker on regional and global development and has authored several articles and serves on many organizational boards and advisory boards She holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and a BA from University of San Francisco.