Select Speaking Engagements:

⚫ Private Family Office & Investors Summit @ World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland ("DNA of Family Capital Success")

⚫ Harvard University ("How Women Can Create World-Changing Companies")

⚫ Startup World Cup ("Global Startup Ecosystems"), Women's Venture Summit, Texas Venture Gala ("Global Family Office Trends") and several others

Arooj’s background is marked by her hands-on experience in venture building, having worked with over 25 ventures, including a handful that she founded. She designed a boutique venture studio in San Francisco and engaged in a number of ecosystem builder roles, which helped her develop her creative problem solving abilities and design thinking capacity.

Driven by her conviction in the transformative power of finance and entrepreneurship to create positive change, Arooj's journey naturally evolved into an exploration of an inter-asset class approach to designing for impact.

She now serves as the Founder and Executive Director of The Nature Inspired Finance Initiative (NIFI), an organization committed to promoting an interdisciplinary approach to impact — for example, drawing on the principles of nature to design financing mechanisms for climate (biomimicry in finance — bringing nature to finance, as we bring finance to nature). NIFI supports impact-oriented family offices globally, engages in project advisory for designing blended finance funds for impact, and advocates for sustainable finance on a global stage.

An adventurer at heart, Arooj embraces slow travel and living abroad seasonally, having immersed herself in diverse cultures across Istanbul, Buenos Aires, Sarajevo, Australia, San Francisco, Austin, and Singapore. Her deep curiosity about humanity has led her to form meaningful connections with individuals from every corner of society—from those facing extreme poverty, to key figures in international finance and governance, indigenous communities, and everything in between. This journey has shaped her profound understanding of the human experience.