Joanne Yoong is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of RFI. In this role, she is principally responsible for the conduct of RFI’s work in accordance with its organizational values, and for the short and long term corporate strategy. She provides leadership to the management team and oversight and support to the RFI team as a whole while representing the organization in dialogue with sponsors and collaborators.

Contact Joanne at joanne@rforimpact.com

In the 20 years of Sherria’s career, she has worked with national governments and international organizations in Asia, The Middle East, Europe, and Africa, both in advisory and leadership positions. In the past 5 years, Sherria assumed back-to-back roles as a global lead, providing strategic directions and operational guidance in Europe, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Her leadership style is constantly shaped by each multinational and interdisciplinary team that she leads. She learned that a plan is only as good as the modifications it is willing to accommodate through listening to different voices and wisdom.

Contact Sherria at sherria@rforimpact.com

Yik Lin’s career has spanned the public sector to MNCs to SMEs to startups, covering a wide range of responsibilities, such as strategy, policy, finance, client management, programme design and project management. As a Vice-President at the Bank of New York Mellon, a Group CFO at Shooting Gallery Asia, the General Manager at FireForge Games (Singapore) and most recently as a Principal Senior Director at Temasek Foundation, he has built and managed many high-performance teams with a strong and positive organisation culture. He hopes to contribute similarly at RFI.

Contact Yik Lin at yiklin@rforimpact.com

Given RFI's wide-range of projects and collaborations, Amanda supports the RFI team in ensuring alignment with the overall strategy, overseeing effective use of resources, and optimizing the impact achieved. For this role, she draws from her past experience in both the public and private sectors, in organisations such as Ogilvy, A*STAR and NUS, where her work has included strategic planning, stakeholder engagement and management, programme planning and execution, as well as project management.

Contact Amanda at amanda.goh@rforimpact.com

A natural fit for his economist portfolio, Oliver oversees and monitors the company’s cash flow and financial transactions, as well as produces financial projections. He strives for good documentation and insightful analysis, as well as to provide accurate and updated information to facilitate rational decision-making.

Contact Oliver at oliver@rforimpact.com

In driving Research For Impact's capability-building efforts, Daniel works closely with both our trainers and client organizations in the impact sector. He ensures that our training programmes are tailored to meet real needs and that those whom we train - management, practitioners, and administrators alike - are properly equipped with relevant skills, knowledge, and resources to realise the impact that they hope to achieve. Prior to joining RFI, Daniel assumed various roles in the public healthcare sector involving programme design and implementation, operations, partnership-building, as well as multi-stakeholder engagement and management. In his current capacity, Daniel hopes to contribute to RFI's vision in building and strengthening the sector's capabilities.

Contact Daniel at daniel@rforimpact.com

Eleanor joined RFI to support and further develop its training arm, as well as to manage and improve its corporate functions. She aims to help broaden RFI Academy's scope, especially through new partnerships, in order to reach and empower changemakers to realise the impact they hope to make. Most recently part of Temasek Foundation's Community Networks & Partnerships team, she contributed to the development of partnerships with key stakeholders in the ground-up sector to strengthen support for community initiatives. She aims to leverage her experience in partnership development to continue to make meaningful contributions to the impact sector through RFI.

Contact Eleanor at eleanor@rforimpact.com

Jamie is a Senior Finance Executive at RFI. With a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Accountancy and Finance Management from the University of Portsmouth, she brings 14 years of invaluable finance experience to her role. She upholds good governance and operational excellence through her responsible delivery of financial functions such as accounting, treasury and reporting, with strict adherence to statutory requirements and in line with RFI’s organisational policies and strategic vision.

Contact Jamie at jamie@rforimpact.com