Resource Speaker's Profile

Carmina Bayombong is the CEO and Founder of InvestEd, a student financing platform for unbanked youth. A multi-awarded entrepreneur, Carmina is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree, a Tatler Generation T Honoree, an Obama Asia Pacific Leader, and a Two- Time Female CEO Awardee of Cartier Women’s Initiative. She was also awarded by the Philippine Government as an Outstanding Woman in the Nation’s Service.

As a development finance and youth empowerment professional, Carmina has raised over 400 million pesos in her career for advocacies in developing countries and has trained 10,000+ youth in the region. Under her leadership, InvestEd has provided 100 million pesos of education loans to thousands of youth across 500+ schools, helping increase their income by 2.3x.

Carmina has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of the Philippines; three certificates from the Asian Institute of Management on Entrepreneurship, Startup Management and Data Strategy and a Social Entrepreneurship Certificate from INSEAD.