Ameeta Vijay
Director
Bio
Ameeta is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CA) with over 20 years of extensive regulatory, compliance, audit, risk management and international work experience. She has provided strategic advice, leadership and operational advisory support throughout her career. At PriceWaterhouseCoopers, she specialized in the audit of investment companies, after which she joined the Bermuda Monetary Authority, operationalized a compliance monitoring regime, risk assessment programs, managed a $100M fixed income portfolio and conducted investigations and enforcement work. She later joined Fidelity Investments International where she developed its local regulatory regime.
Ameeta is currently the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of Social Venture Connexion (SVX) where she has been for more than 5 years. Ameeta oversees compliance with corporate policies, relevant laws and regulations, as well as governance and financial operations for SVX. She is responsible for the development, implementation and maintenance of compliance policies, operational procedures and internal control processes as well as all financial matters including preparation of financial budgets and forecasts.
She also holds a degree in Finance and Economics from the University of Western Ontario and the CSC, PDO, EMPC and CCO. Ameeta is on the Board of both the Verge Breakthrough Fund and the Oakville Community Foundation, and she Chairs the Program Related Investments Committee of the OCF.
SVX is a financial services firm that designs strategies, manages products, and raises capital for impact ventures, funds, organizations and investors. SVX works with ventures and funds across sectors by preparing them for investor due diligence, providing advice for their capital raising strategy, providing access to the SVX platform to manage their investments, and connecting them to investors.