Patricia Chin-Sweeney

Patricia is Co-Founder and Managing Director of I-DEV, bringing 15+ years of investment and strategy experience focused on strengthening and scaling high-impact companies. Patricia built and led I-DEV’s Insight & Strategy Group, and launched I-DEV’s expansion into Africa. She has advised companies from Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Eileen Fisher, and Grupo Bimbo to leading local companies in Africa and Latin America on innovation, growth and capital raise. She has consulted the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and the IDB Lab (their innovation group), UN Foundation, USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures, Conservation International, DFID and more on new blended finance models, capacity building support, investment strategy and tech-enabled solutions across agriculture, clean energy, big data, edtech, sustainable brands and climate sectors. Patricia has been an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) twice for Singularity University (Silicon Valley), as well as built and taught curriculum as a Lecturer for them and others including Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. She also advises executives and startup management teams. Prior to I-DEV, Patricia worked in investment banking and strategy for the C-Suite of the global engineering/infrastructure and environmental consulting sector at the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG), a boutique NY firm. She holds an MBA in Global Business and Social Innovation from New York University’s Stern School of Business, and B.A. from Barnard College, the Women’s College of Columbia University.

Companies

• Venture Partner Beyond Capital Ventures (2020)
• Managing Director I-DEV International (2019)
• Senior Partner I-DEV International (2015)
• Director IDEV Africa (2012)
• Strategic Advisor Pears Program for Global Innovation (2021 — 2021)
• Strategy & Investments Advisor Founders Factory Africa (2020 — 2021)
• Investments Consultant African Leadership Academy (2019 — 2021)
• Adjunct Professor- Impact Investing & Emerging Markets Startup Ecosystem Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (2020 — 2020)
• Lecturer & Entrepreneur-in-Residence Singularity University (2018 — 2019)

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Barnard College (1999 — 2003)
• Bachelors Columbia University in the City of New York (1999 — 2003)
• GSP17 Singularity University (2017 — 2017)