Yvonne Chao

About Yvonne Chao

Finance and Strategy Professional combining private sector and nonprofit experience at Capital One, Citibank, Relay Graduate School of Education, and Array Education. As Founding CFO of Relay GSE, steered organization’s growth from <$1MM budget pilot program to $17MM independent higher education institution with three campuses, while establishing student billing and financial aid offices. As Senior Advisor and now Partner of Array Education, supported launch of new social ventures, including a college scholarship program, digital match curriculum organization, summer teaching fellowship program, purpose development program, global education consultancy, and literacy instruction program, among others.Excels at translating big picture strategy to systems and operations that quickly scale high-impact ventures.BA, Stanford University. MBA, Kellogg School of Management.

Experience

1. Partner

   Array Education

   Jul 2022 — Present

   Provide incubation and launch support to nonprofit education ventures, from initial ideation to creating back office financial/operations systems to hiring and training business office staff for independent management.• Coach education entrepreneurs on business operations management so they can maximize their time on building and continually improving their program and mission activities.• Oversee all finance and operations for education nonprofit startup studio.

Education

• Stanford University

  BA, Economics, Biology

• Le Cordon Bleu Paris

  Certificat de Pâtisserie de Base

• Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management

  MBA, with distinction, Finance, Social Enterprise, Management & Strategy

Skills

• Financial Modeling
• Valuation
• Strategic Planning
• Corporate Development
• Start-Ups
• Management Consulting
• Finance
• Financial Analysis
• Non-Profits
• Leadership
• Business Strategy
• Investment Banking
• Corporate Finance
• Nonprofits
• Due Diligence
• Strategy
• Mergers & Acquisitions