Shu Dar Yao
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Shu Dar Yao is a recognized impact investor with expertise in leading organizations to structure and fundraise for environmental and social transactions. At RSF Social Finance, Shu Dar led investments and she served as Chairwoman of the Investment Committee, she rewrote the firm’s investment policy statement, impact strategy, and oversaw the restructuring and subsequent portfolio management of its $70 million impact-first portfolio. Previously, she served as the Director of Capital Formation and Investor Relations at Social Finance, an impact investing firm leading Pay for Success project financings. Shu Dar was a VP at Citigroup, Inclusive Finance and Financial Innovation, and arranged market-based poverty-alleviation transactions on behalf of clients. At the World Bank’s IFC, she was an investor on the Global Infrastructure team and developed the $4bn Global Infrastructure Crisis Facility. She was an investment banker at JPMorgan, working in Global M&A, Syndicated Leveraged Finance and Private Equity Sponsors during the subprime crisis.
Shu Dar received an MBA from MIT Sloan and graduated Magna Cum Laude from NYU Stern with a BS in Finance and International Business. Shu Dar is a first-generation American, born and raised in Western Pennsylvania. She lives in Bernal Heights in San Francisco with her partner and daughter.