Rachael Chong

Rachael is the Founder and CEO of Catchafire, the world's first and largest online pro bono service provider that matches professionals who want to volunteer their skills with nonprofits and social entrepreneurs that need pro bono business services. Previously an investment banker, and prior to starting Catchafire, Rachael helped start-up BRAC USA, the US affiliate of BRAC, the largest nonprofit organization in the world, where she created a strategy to effectively mobilize a dozen skills-based volunteers that freed up her and the President & CEO's time to raise $40 million in less than nine months. Fresh off her success with BRAC USA, Rachael founded Catchafire, a New York City-based social mission business and a certified B-Corporation, with the vision to make it easy for every professional to use their skills for good, and to make it easy for every nonprofit and social enterprise to access and effectively use pro bono as a way to build capacity within their organization. Rachael has a Masters of Public Policy Degree from Duke University and graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College at Columbia University. Born in Australia, Rachael grew up all over Asia. She writes for the Huffington Post.