Pando & RICH + RIOT Community Conversation Lunch
🎉 RICH + RIOT is so excited to launch our very first giveaway collaboration with Pando.
Pando has sponsored 10 RICH + RIOT Memberships! As part of the Giveaway Pando is hosting a conversation around community and entrepreneurship with the 10 membership winners and 10 current RICH + RIOT community members.
Panel includes:
Nina Essandoh, Venture & Growth Equity Investor (Pendulum Holdings, Baird Capital, Black Angel Tech Fund)
Andrea Taylor Lindsay, Co-Founder of DTC apparel brand RecRoom (acquired in January 2021)
Avital Ungar, Founder of culinary experiences company Avital Tours (featured in NYT, Conde Nast, Travel+Leisure, TIME)
Moderator - Michelle Honchariw, Head of Growth at Pando
Nina Essandoh is a Vice President and Chief of Staff at Pendulum Holdings, a growth equity and venture capital platform that invests in businesses led by entrepreneurs of color. Prior to Pendulum, she worked as a Private Equity Vice President focused on Industrial Technology. Nina has also worked with the Black Angel Tech Fund (a consumer tech fund that invests in black-owned ventures), a South African debt fund, and a late-stage South African venture fund. Essandoh began her career in investment banking. She graduated with honors from Spelman College and received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Andrea Taylor Lindsay co-founded Rec Room, a women's leisurewear brand. Rec Room was acquired in January 2021 by an aggregator group, as a marquee property in its family of direct-to-consumer brands. Previously, Dre was a Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, focused on M&A due diligence and org design in the beauty, alcohol, and technology industries. She also formerly worked at Google as a sales strategist for the top 100 ad accounts. During business school, Dre worked for toy company The Lego Group, working on executive strategy projects in Singapore, directly for the Chief Commercial Officer. Dre holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as a BA from Stanford University. She is from Los Angeles, where she lives with her daughter and husband.
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Avital Ungar, founder and owner of Avital Tours, first became serious about the finer points of life while living in Paris and the quaint town of Aix-en-Provence in Southern France. After drinking wine at three in the afternoon as per the cultural norm and gorging her way through the countryside, Avital returned to the United States and began reading “Wine for Dummies” with the hope of adding an academic wine approach to her informal wine education. Now, years later, Avital is a certified sommelier. A UCLA graduate, Avital studied Art History, French and Mandarin Chinese but wishes she could have majored in Chocolate. Avital has been leading artisan food tours since starting Avital Tours in 2011. She has served as a judge at the International Chocolate Salon, the Best of the West Rib Competition, the Good Food Awards and and has been featured on CNN, the Travel Channel, Travel+Leisure and more.
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Michelle Honchariw is the Head of Growth at Pando, where she leads sales, marketing and customer success. Having started her career in the theater, Michelle is passionate about income pooling as a tool for enabling more people to pursue what they love to do, even when the financial path looks risky. Prior to Pando, Michelle was a strategy and marketing leader at Levi Strauss & Co and a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group. Michelle previously served as the Managing Director of The Go Game, an experiential marketing and team-building company that connects people through shared experience. She lives in the Bay Area with her husband, their 1 year-old son, a dog, a cat, and a never-ending stack of dishes to put away.
Lunch will be provided to you by Pando. Here is the link to the Pando Platform. Please be sure to create an account before the event. Once you sign up to the platform, you’ll receive a grubhub gift card for lunch tomorrow.
P.S. if you fill out your entire profile on the Pando Platform, an additional bonus gift will be headed your way.Pando believes that the world is a better place when people come together to support and empower each other. They have created a new financial tool for people in high volatility careers.
Pando Income Pooling, enables a group of individuals to join forces and contractually pledge a modest portion of their future earnings – above a hurdle – to a shared pool.
Pools are collaborative communities of individuals who have aligned ambitions, incentives and drive. Fostering this strong sense of community across a given group or industry, gives individuals the opportunity to advance not only their own careers, but also that of those around them. They have groups of VCs and Founders on the Pando Platform ready to connect.
Pando also has a free networking service, Pando Match, that facilitates introductions to other members of the Pando Platform! (It’s free and easy to join!)Learn more about pooling here, and feel free to sign up for Pando Match here!
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