Committed to proving the business case for societal and environmental impact, Oliva Khalili brings 20 years of experience as a senior practitioner and thought leader in sustainability. She was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council in 2021, and received the Stevie Award for Woman of the Year in Technology, 2021. As the inaugural head of PagerDuty.org, she established and scaled the company’s global impact strategy, comprising ESG & sustainability, revenue-generating nonprofit sales, impact capital, and employee experience.
Before joining PagerDuty, Olivia built Yahoo’s global corporate responsibility program, Yahoo for Good, to mobilize the company's technology and employee talent to positively benefit society. Prior to Yahoo, she worked with Ashoka, creating innovative social impact programs that supported social entrepreneurs and enhanced brand equity for a portfolio of companies that included American Express and Ben & Jerry’s. In 2008, Olivia launched CauseCapitalism.com, an online resource to help businesses grow by embedding social purpose. Her approach stems from cross-sector experience working with the public sector, tech companies and nonprofits, and in international development in Micronesia.
Olivia holds a B.A. Cum Laude in International Relations and Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania, and served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for GreatNonprofits and CommunityConnect Labs for half a decade. Chiefly, she’s a nature mama to three spirited sons on the outskirts of Austin.