Julie Hanna

Julie Hanna (born August 5, 1965) is an Egyptian-born technologist, entrepreneur, investor, and board director. She is known for her roles as Executive Chair of the Board of Kiva, a peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding pioneer, and as Special Advisor to X (formerly Google X), Alphabet's Moonshot Factory. Hanna has served as a Venture Partner at Obvious Ventures and is a former board member of the Esalen Institute and Mozilla Corporation. With a background in computer science, she is a founding executive of five Silicon Valley technology companies. In 2015, President Barack Obama appointed Hanna as Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship to foster the development of future entrepreneurs.More