Yvette Go

Yvette Go is Head of Social and Environmental Impact Investments in the venture capital (VC) team of the European Investment Fund (EIF). She leads the team and strategy focused on equity investments delivering societal impact, in parallel to generating financial returns. With the team, she manages over EUR 400M in funding dedicated to social impact, invested through a variety of financial instruments (http://www.eif.org/EIF_for/social-impact-funds/index.htm). Before joining EIF in 2015, she worked at the cleantech VC firm SET Ventures for 7 years a.o. leading their investment in MicroShade, an innovative company in energy-efficient window solutions. She also co-led the fundraising for Shaerpa’s first social impact fund (now merged with SI2, investing in social enterprises in the Benelux). During the first 10 years of her career, Yvette held various roles of increasing responsibility at the multinationals DSM and Shell, until she moved from her position as global product portfolio manager for a business generating EUR 300M annual sales into venture capital. She is a guest lecturer at Nyenrode Business University (Netherlands), teaching “How to finance” to social entrepreneurs. Yvette holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IESE Business School (Global Executive MBA 2008, Spain) and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).