Arlington, Virginia, November 1, 2022 — America’s Frontier Fund (AFF) proudly announced that Heidi Crebo-Rediker joined as Senior Advisor. In this role, she will help AFF develop capital deployment strategies for critical foundational technologies and supply chains. She will also work with Frontier Fund I, AFF’s flagship venture capital arm.
Heidi is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and comes to AFF with 30 years of experience in senior leadership positions at the intersection of national economic security, international finance and policy, both in government and finance. Previously, she co-led the international economic policy team for the Biden Presidential campaign, and served on the Biden Treasury Agency Review Transition team as lead on International Affairs. She also served in the Obama Administration as the State Department’s first Chief Economist and prior this this, Chief of International Finance and Economics for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Heidi also spent nearly two decades in Europe as a Managing Director at several bulge bracket investment banks, and was named one of the “Top 25 Women in Business” by The Wall Street Journal Europe.
AFF also proudly announced that Karl Mehta joined as Chairman of the Quad Investors Network, an independent consortium welcomed by the White House and the Governments of Australia, India, and Japan. In this role, Karl will work to build on the existing bonds between the four nations, forge new partnerships, and select the industry executives, investors, and research leaders who will form the network. This first-of-its-kind network will focus on expanding access to cross-border capital, expanding public-private collaboration, promoting resilient supply chains, and identifying shared priorities and new opportunities within and between the Quad nations.
Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, author, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. Most recently he was Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc. and a former venture partner at Menlo Ventures. Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc. Karl also served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow in the Obama Administration, was appointed by Governor Brown to the Workforce Investment Board of the State of California, and won the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award from Ernst & Young for Northern California. Karl is on the boards of Simpa Networks and on the advisory board of Intel Capital and Chapman University’s Center of Entrepreneurship. Karl is founder of several non-profit's including Code For India and Grassroots Innovation. He is author of “Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid”.