Fernanda is a business executive with over 20 years of experience in management consulting, venture investing and business operations. She spent the last 10 years working in the genomics space as Chief Business Development Officer of Human Longevity, President of SGI-DNA and Senior Vice-President at Synthetic Genomics. She recently founded Match Your Need, a local social impact technology start-up. Fernanda Coelho is a member of the San Diego French-American School board of trustees. She is also a partner at San Diego Social Venture Partners. Fernanda is originally from Brazil and moved to the United States in 2003. She is a proud mom of two daughters. Fernanda received her BS in Chemical Engineering from Escola de Engenharia Maua in Brazil and her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business in California.

Website: matchyourneed.com
Twitter: @matchyourneed

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