Patsian is AVPN's Chief of Markets and Deputy CEO. She will lead AVPN’s market-focused activities, including driving growth in membership, enhancing the value proposition for capital providers, cultivating new partnership opportunities, and supporting AVPN’s overall strategic direction.
As a part of the management team, Patsian will help to guide AVPN's growth in the future, drawing from her diverse experience in impact and sustainable finance, purpose-driven businesses, philanthropy, CSR, sustainability, non-profit leadership, and commercial finance across the US and Asia. Patsian has spent 30 years across the continuum of capital, holding leadership positions in philanthropy, social impact, CSR and sustainability in organisations from public and private sectors. These include roles in Visa, DBS and DBS Foundation, Singapore's National Volunteer & Philanthropy Center, State Street Bank, Deutsche Bank and her own impact enterprise.
She also advises organisations like Tri-Sector Associates, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, and other early-stage impact startups. She is also on several non-profit boards and committees.
Patsian holds an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business, and is presently pursuing her 2nd Masters from University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. As a mother of two, Patsian feels strongly about the empowerment of working women and their growth as holistic, well-rounded individuals. She spends her spare time working hard at Flamenco dance, fitness, travelling and foreign languages.