Cecile Blilious

Cecile is the Head of Impact & Sustainability at Pitango Venture Capital, Israel’s largest VC, where she is leading the integration of ESG into the framework of mainstream venture capital. Cecile has extensive experience in the combination between the impact and technology worlds for almost 20 years. Previously, Cecile was the Founder and Managing Partner of Impact First Investments, Israel's first impact investing company that paved the way towards investing in technology with purpose, and with that built the Israeli impact-tech ecosystem.

Before that, Cecile managed the Noaber Foundation's Israeli investments and held executive positions as a founder, CEO and board member is several startups. She was one of the initiators of the Al-Bawader private equity fund, the first investor in Arab-founded startups. Cecile founded the mentorship program at the "Keren Shemesh" Foundation for the Encouragement of Young Entrepreneurs as her community volunteering engagement and is a strong advocate of women empowerment in the tech world through various engagements.

Cecile is the co-founder and chairperson of GITA (the Global Impact Tech Alliance), a global non-profit organization aiming to serve the impact-tech community worldwide and help it scale through community activities, data aggregation, training and consulting.

She is an alumnus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and recently joined the Hebrew University Board of Trustees, and is an avid practitioner of Tai-Chi martial art.