
[email protected]
Angela Homsi is a sustainable tech investor and entrepreneur, building and growing solutions driving systemic change towards a clean, inclusive and safer world. She is Founder and President at Ignite Solar, chairwoman at Ignite Investments, and on the board of multiple sustainable tech startups, impact funds' investment committee and non-profit boards.
Ignite is developing and scaling innovations solving last-mile access to clean power, internet, and climate-tech serving consumers, medical, education and agri markets - thanks to its decentralized digitized infra-tech platform. With presence across Africa, the UAE, Israel, and the US, and with 2.5 millions people using Ignite's life-enabling solutions, our vision is to leave no one behind in having access to foundational clean infrastructure.
Homsi also invests in tech startups finding solutions to sustainable challenges in emerging markets and sits on several tech and sustainability boards.
Previously, she was a macro trader at Goldman Sachs, and a sustainable investor at Generation IM under VP Al Gore's chairmanship. She also worked on post-conflict economic and financial solutions together with Sir Ronald Cohen. In her non-for-profit work, Homsi is the chair of Seeds of Peace Global Leadership Council and was a founding board member of Harvard’s Negotiation Strategies Institute.
She is actively involved in Track II and impact-innovation initiatives. She was an awarded Chair of YPO Global Diplomacy Network, and is also a contributor, lecturer and speaker in multiple universities and institutions globally, such as Technion, Tel Aviv university, New York University, University of Galilee, TEDX, Milken, AIM, Globes, I24 News, Ynet News, and more.
Homsi is Lebanese, Egyptian, Israeli and lives in Abu Dhabi. She is a mathematician and economics scholar, and a Singularity University Executive Graduate. She speaks French, English, Spanish, some Arabic and Hebrew.
Related Speakers View all
![]() |
Asha Mehta
Entrepreneur & Author; Founder & Chief Investment Of...
|
![]() |
Rupal J. Bhansali
SVP & Chief Investment Officer at International Equi...
|
![]() |
Francesca Whitehead
Vice President at Fifth Wall
|
![]() |
Natalie Kyriacou OAM
Environmental & Social Impact Leader, Australian Top...
|
![]() |
Nidhi Chadda
ESG Investor & Advisor; Founder & CEO of Enzo Advisors
|
![]() |
Michael Sheldrick
Co-Founder, Global Citizen; Author of “From Ideas to...
|
![]() |
Margaret Anadu
Senior Partner at The Vistria Group; Former Global H...
|
![]() |
Mimi Crume Sterling
Communications, ESG & CSR Executive; Non-Profit CEO;...
|
![]() |
Ken Bertsch
Executive Director at the Council of Institutional I...
|
|
Robert Rubinstein
Chairman & Founder of TBLI Group; ESG & Impact Inves...
|
![]() |
Olivia Albrecht
Founder & CEO at Artemeter
|
![]() |
Dr. Angela Jackson
Founder of Future Forward Strategies; Future of Work...
|
![]() |
Jen Liang, CFA
Managing Partner at Vitality Investment Group & Seri...
|
![]() |
Kindra Mohr, Esq.
Attorney, Sustainability Advocate & ESG Expert
|
![]() |
Faith Taylor
Global Sustainability Officer at Kyndryl
|
![]() |
Eva Zlotnicka
Founder & Managing Partner at Inclusive Capital Part...
|
![]() |
Marga Hoek
Award-Winning Author of "The Trillion Dollar Shift;"...
|
![]() |
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon
Specialist in Climate Change Investing, Corporate Va...
|
![]() |
Sallie Krawcheck
Wall Street Trailblazer, Founder of Ellevest, a Wome...
|
![]() |
Scott Harrison
Author of New York Times Bestseller "Thirst"; Founde...
|