​Julie Hanna's PAGE Signature Initiative, “Global Capital Access,” initially committed to fund and deliver $100 million in crowdfunded loans to 200,000 ​women and young entrepreneurs around the world​ through Kiva.org. One year later, $107 million in loans have reached almost 300,000 entrepreneurs across 77 countries, from Silicon Valley to the Great Rift Valley. Each of these are women-owned or youth-owned businesses that create jobs for people in their communities. Julie's work as a PAGE has also inspired 111,000 new citizen lenders from 152 countries to join Kiva.org.

BIO

Julie Hanna (official biography) is an entrepreneur, investor and advisor to numerous pioneering Silicon Valley companies. She is Executive Chair of the Board at Kiva, the world’s first and largest crowdlending marketplace for global entrepreneurs. Named a TIME magazine Top 50 Website, praised by President Clinton and Oprah, and called the “hottest non-profit on the planet” by FORTUNE, Kiva is a catalyst for revitalizing local economies in 86 countries, including the U.S. To date, millions of lenders from over 190 nations have crowdfunded more than $700 million in microloans to 1.6 million entrepreneurs, with a 98% repayment rate.

Julie is also an active advisor and investor to sharing economy pioneer Lyft, Bonobos, MightyText, Idealab, creator of over 125 companies with 40 IPO’s and acquisitions, and Lending Club (NASDAQ: LC). Named one of America’s most promising companies by Forbes and the largest IPO of 2014, Lending Club is transforming the banking system and is now the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors.

Julie is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Response. She is an international speaker on entrepreneurial leadership and innovation and a guest lecturer at Stanford, Cambridge and Oxford Universities.