ELLEN SMEELE
Associate at SET Ventures
Ellen is an Associate and involved in evaluating investment opportunities, due diligience, sector research and portfolio support and ensuring that our ESG practices remain best-in-class.
Working at Green Giraffe before, she has experience with solar PV, off-shore wind and mini-grid transactions across Europe and Africa. She also worked at multiple software, fintech and agriculture start-ups across the globe in finance, strategy and operations roles. Being Dutch but having lived in Oman, Hong Kong, Rwanda and the UK she experienced great joy meeting people from various cultural and professional backgrounds. She puts her enthusiam for connecting with people and promoting diversity into practice as ambassador for Climate Mosaic, a pan-european network with climate investors and founders.
Ellen has an MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Sustainable Business from the Rotterdam School of Management.