Yolande Athaide

Yolande Athaide brings extensive expertise in formulating data-driven strategy and financial planning across diverse sectors, including nonprofits, businesses of varying scales, and higher education. With a background as an entrepreneur, she excels in overseeing operational functions, developing compliant policies, managing space administration plans and technologies, and creating budgets and multi-year forecasts for funds of up to $8 million annually. Yolande has a proven track record in mentoring teams, leveraging her early training in software engineering and systems analysis to innovate workflows and streamline business processes effectively. She holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from St. Xavier’s College of the University of Mumbai, an MBA in finance and accounting from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and a JD from Purdue Global Law School. Additionally, she has earned certification from the Harvard Business Analytics Program, AWS, and Google Project Management, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst®.