Anne Ascharsobi — APJ Sustainability Innovation Leader
About Anne
Armed with global experience spanning Environmental/Social/Governance leadership, for-purpose entrepreneurship, nonprofit strategy, digital innovation and technology commercialisation, Anne seeks to test and scale innovative ways to make impact in the modern information age and business landscape. After strategic consulting for some of America’s largest NPOs, helping to revamp the strategic philanthropy and sustainability strategies for various Fortune 500 companies, and running educational NPO startup programs for marginalized students, Anne ran her own international non-profit for 2 years before joining Google in Silicon Valley.
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There she joined a startup team working to build product and launch an enterprise analytics business, before moving to Australia to grow the products APAC & Oceana presence. She then launched several additional enterprise products across the region, spanning digital marketing, analytics and big data.
After joining Google.org (Google's philanthropy), Anne helped to manage Google's philanthropy across the US, APAC and Oceana. She then started her second for-purpose venture, a non-profit ethical jewellery business called "Generous Jewels," which helps to eradicate extreme poverty by allowing customers to choose which carefully vetted nonprofit to donate 100% of profits to.
In June 2019, she joined Xero, an ASX50 company, as their Director of Sustainability to start the function from the ground up. She assembled a team of passionate corporate change makers to support Xero's overall ESG operations and disclosures, while driving the company's community support, environmental impact, sustainable supply chain, and small business sustainability work.
After leaving Xero in June, she most recently joined Amazon as their Asia-Pacific and Japan Digital Innovation Lead for Sustainability, looking to work with Amazon Web Services’ largest customers to ideate, innovate and build the next generation of sustainability technology.
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