Gerald Pambo-Awich

Gerald (Gerry) Pambo-Awich is a Director of Strategic Initiatives & Impact Investments at Prudential Financial. In this dual role, he focuses on initiatives to influence the future of Prudential’s International Insurance business, and leads the Education & Africa strategies for Prudential Impact Investments with responsibility for sourcing, underwriting and managing investments that meet Prudential’s social value criteria while providing risk-adjusted financial returns. Prudential Impact Investments manages a portfolio of more than $700 million in investments and has a goal of building a $1 billion portfolio by 2020.

Prior to this role, Mr. Pambo-Awich worked in Prudential’s Corporate Development team, which is responsible for all acquisitions and divestitures in the company. Mr. Pambo-Awich began his career at Goldman Sachs & Co, followed by investment roles at early stage venture capital and growth equity firms including Bridges Ventures, and Kapor Capital. In all these roles, he was focused on creating and analyzing risk/return profiles so at to recommend or advise senior management on proposed investments.

Mr. Pambo-Awich received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from Bard College, where he was a Distinguished Scientist Scholar.

Mr. Pambo-Awich serves on the Board of Governors of Bard College and Board of Directors of BridgeEdu.