Full Name
Shikha Goyal
Job Title
Venture Partner
Firm
Imaginable Futures
Professional Bio
Shikha is a Venture Partner at Imaginable Futures. She leads the firm's strategy and investments across Africa.
Over the last 18 years, Shikha has worked across the development and private sectors. Prior to joining Imaginable Futures and Omidyar Network, she worked at the Children�s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), where she led investment and management of programs to improve basic literacy and numeracy for children in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. She was responsible for a portfolio of over $60 million, including CIFF�s investment in Early Learning Partnership, a multi-donor trust fund with the World Bank, Educate Girls India, the world�s first education development impact bond as well as Tayari, a low-cost, early childhood education model across 1,500 schools in Kenya.
Before CIFF, Shikha was at Accenture advising European utilities on strategic due-diligence, operational improvement and regulatory strategy. She started her career as an R&D engineer in an energy meter manufacturing startup in India.
Shikha is a board member for Innovation Edge and SPARK Schools and a board observer for SmartStart in South Africa. She is also on the steering committee for the Global Schools Forum.
Shikha has a Bachelor's in Electronics Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in India and an MBA from INSEAD France.
Over the last 18 years, Shikha has worked across the development and private sectors. Prior to joining Imaginable Futures and Omidyar Network, she worked at the Children�s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), where she led investment and management of programs to improve basic literacy and numeracy for children in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. She was responsible for a portfolio of over $60 million, including CIFF�s investment in Early Learning Partnership, a multi-donor trust fund with the World Bank, Educate Girls India, the world�s first education development impact bond as well as Tayari, a low-cost, early childhood education model across 1,500 schools in Kenya.
Before CIFF, Shikha was at Accenture advising European utilities on strategic due-diligence, operational improvement and regulatory strategy. She started her career as an R&D engineer in an energy meter manufacturing startup in India.
Shikha is a board member for Innovation Edge and SPARK Schools and a board observer for SmartStart in South Africa. She is also on the steering committee for the Global Schools Forum.
Shikha has a Bachelor's in Electronics Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology in India and an MBA from INSEAD France.
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