Ashley Teo
CONSTANT THINKER |LOUDSPEAKER|
SUSHI ENTHUSIAST|CAPPUCCINO ADDICT|
SHUTTERBUG|ASPIRING WORLD TRAVELER|
I Like to write in books|
Hi there. Thank you for visiting my website.
My name is Ashley. I was born in, and adopted from Shanghai, China though I have been lucky to have lived in Canada my whole life. I graduated from the University of Toronto’s St. George Campus where I studied Economics and Psychology. I speak English, French, Cantonese, and a tiny bit of Swahili. I have deep interests in business and technology as well as global health and development. I developed a passion for social justice at an early age and I have worked on issues relating to public health and human rights within senior levels of government. In that capacity, I have had the great privilege of serving as a representative to the United Nations for the Government of Canada on the topic of children's rights and also as a National Delegate on the Young Adult Leadership Team, which then served as the only official representation of young adults within the Canadian government. I spent the summer of 2012 living and working in Tanzania where I co-designed and implemented a series of microfinance and income generating programs for the Pamoja Tunaweza’s Women’s Centre in Moshi and the Office of Global Health at Queens University’s Medical School. I currently work on AIR MILES' Business Development team where I am growing the AIR MILES Reward Program (one of Canada's largest loyalty programs + a LoyaltyOne holding) through strategic partnerships with leading brands across the country. Prior to this, I worked on LoyaltyOne's International Strategy team to launch new revenue initiatives with MasterCard Worldwide. My other professional experiences include working at a private venture capital firm focused on financial technologies, leading business and customer research on the International Strategy team at Square Inc. (a payments company based in San Francisco), consulting at a behavioural economics consulting firm alongside top industry academics: Dan Ariely and Nina Mazar, and working on the impact investment team at one of the world's largest ($500M+) and leading social venture capital funds dedicated to commercializing global health technologies and innovations in low and middle income countries. In my spare time, I am raising funds and am helping to resettle Syrian refugee families with JIAS Toronto, mentor Junior Achievement Central Ontario's Deloitte Company Program team, sit on the fundraising committee for the Minstrel foundation - a charitable organization that provides scholarships for music and arts education to young people from inner city and new immigrant communities in Toronto, serve as an events and fundraising volunteer with Teach for Canada - a charity that matches top teaching talent to underserved communities across the nation, and am helping to grow a small non-profit organization in Toronto called the Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund that offers socially responsible investment opportunities to accredited Canadian investors. When I’m not focused on my day-to-day responsibilities, I enjoy taking pictures, reading the latest and greatest in non-fiction, drinking all forms of caffeine, and having brunch with my friends. Talk to me about all things TED / Technology / Business / Entrepreneurship / Economics / Psychology / Personal Finance / Global Health. @teo_ashley |
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Learn as if you were to live forever."
- Gandhi -