Keoni Lee
About this speaker
Keoni Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of Hawaiʻi Investment Ready, a 501(c)3 nonprofit impact investing intermediary working at the nexus of purpose, business, and culture to restore regenerative abundance to Hawaii’s economy. HIR supports purpose-driven enterprises (for-profit and nonprofit) and funders in Hawaiʻi to strengthen and scale their impact through a variety of programs and services for capacity building and impact capital deployment. Prior to joining HIR in 2019, Keoni was a successful social entrepreneur having co-founded Waiwai Collective and ʻŌiwi TV – the first Native Hawaiian language and cultural television station and media production company - where he spent over a decade producing stories in and about native communities throughout Hawaiʻi and around the world.
Keoni has a MBA from the Shidler College of Business at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His leadership accomplishments garnered his selection as a fellow to the Omidyar Fellows program, the First Nations Futures Program, and the RSF Social Finance Just Economy Institute Fellow. He was awarded the 2021 Investor of the Year by the Hawaii Venture Capital Association and named to the 20 for the Next 20 class of 2022. He is a member of Toniic, the global action community for impact investing, and serves on numerous non-profit boards with a focus on impact in education and local food systems.