Our Team
Chelsea Toler, Partner
Chelsea serves as a Partner at NOVA Impact and as the President of The Keep Families Giving Foundation, her family’s foundation. Most recently, Chelsea led her foundations initiative to serve as the first ever Next-Gen campaign leader for Giving Tuesday and inspired over 1 Million Next-Gen acts of generosity around the world and raised more than $800,000 for the initiative. Chelsea’s passion for strategic philanthropy and experience in movement building has resulted in over 21 million dollars raised for more than 750 nonprofit organizations.
As a Partner at NOVA Impact Chelsea strives to educate and amplify the voices of Next-Gen committed to impact on a global scale. She is focused on increasing access and visibility into the family office and foundation world.
Sarah Aoanan, Venture Partner
Sarah Aoanan holds her MBA from Columbia University and serves as the Director of Community and Culture for NOVA Impact. In this role Sarah brings her passions for connecting leaders from different sectors and backgrounds together to create vibrant and healthy communities working towards inspiring good.
Sarah is especially passionate about healthcare and became an advocate when her childhood best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has since spent over a decade advocating for vulnerable women’s health. She is a former Patient Advocate and Community Outreach Manager at Global Healthy Living Foundation wherein she elevated, empowered and mobilized the foundation's volunteer patients to share their stories at the local, state, and federal levels to improve health policy and research around access. Her time as a health advocate has led her to believe that healing illness involves healing our planet.
Olivia Dell, Partner
Olivia is a Partner at NOVA Impact and an Investor at Falkon Ventures. She is focused on leveraging data to create efficiencies in both the Venture Capital and Impact Spaces and is passionate about sharing her experience to show other Next-Gen how to find engagement in these spaces. Olivia is an active member of a number of Impact-driven networks including Nexus Global, Summit Impact, Social Venture Partners, and more.
Lilia Clemente, Advisor
Lilia has over 40 years experience as a distinguished investment manager, global investment strategist and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Chairman of Clemente Capital and is considered one of the pioneers of emerging markets investments. She is founding member and former trustee, Chief Investment Officer of Women’s World Banking. Lilia is passionate about social value investing, women’s empowerment, millennial inheritors, children’s education, environmental issues and the struggle of immigrants throughout the world.
Lilia has been investing in Japan since the beginning of her career and has worked as Chief Investment Adviser to AFLAC-Japan for 20 years. Lilia launched 2 close- end funds listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – the USD85 million Clemente Global Growth Fund and the USD120 million First Philippine Fund (1989- 2003), which received the top rank Asian Fund 5-star ratings from Morningstar and Lipper. She also launched the USD100 million Cathay Clemente Fund in 1992, China’s first private equity fund listed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, and listed China Yuchai Machinery in the NYSE in 1994.
Prior to Clemente Capital, Lilia was the First Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for International Investments at Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management, where she managed the no. 1 ranked global fund, Paine Webber Atlas. Prior to that, she was Director of Investment Research and Assistant Treasurer for the Ford Foundation, where she was responsible for the globalization of the foundation’s USD3 billion portfolio. She was the first woman and youngest person ever appointed as an officer at the Ford Foundation at the time.
Lilia received her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of the Philippines and her Masters in Economics at the University of Chicago, where she also did her doctoral work.
AnneMarie McComb, Principal
AnneMarie acts as a Principal at NOVA Impact and as an attorney focused on personal injury and medical malpractice defense.
In her role as Principal of NOVA Impact AnneMarie brings a legal and corporate perspective to provide insight into how Next-Gen can support transformational strategies to foster thriving communities. AnneMarie also enjoys working with Next-Gen social enterprise founders committed to social justice and healthcare initiatives.
Lori Katz, Board Member & Advisor
Lori Katz serves as a Board Member and Advisor to NOVA Impact and is an active member of the management team of Deasil, based in New York. At Deasil, Lori is responsible for spearheading the firm’s strategic business development and capital access divisions.
Lori is a strategic advisor to a myriad of start-ups and organizations looking to scale. She is currently partner in an international boutique advisory firm working across industries and assisting companies with market entry and capital access. Her focus is on companies with cross border aspirations with an emphasis on tech startups, sustainable consumer products, e-commerce and hospitality. Lori’s expertise includes strategy and implementation, capital access, business development, marketing and sales, channel partnerships, corporate and organizational structure and scaling operations.
She has volunteered and worked extensively in the area of international human rights and social justice, including with HPCR International, the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, and the Kennedy School of Government of Harvard University. Lori has been involved with several young adult focused organizations, including running seminars on public policy and social activism in Washington, DC and as an advisory board member.
A Boston native and a current New Yorker, Lori holds a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and a B.A. in International Relations from Tufts University. In 2009, Lori was awarded a fellowship and certificate for study of Social Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Business School through the Ariane de Rothschild Program.