Lisha M Bell, MBA

Lisha brings over 20 years of demonstrated technology innovation focused on digital money movement solutions. Her career has focused on building and investing in products that serve community needs to bridge the capital divide.

Lisha is currently at PayPal Ventures, where she leads the Economic Opportunity Fund, the 100M investment into diverse emerging fund managers. Prior roles with PayPal, she led Product for the Financially Underserved Segment and Pay with Venmo product. Prior to Paypal, she worked at Wells Fargo, Kohl’s, Feedzai in various payments related roles, where she built the earliest digital financial products like online banking, bill pay, and digital wallets.

Lisha Bell is cofounder of BLXVC, an angel syndicate of moms funding Black and Brown founders. She is the host of the Sisters with Ventures Podcast that aims to tell the stories of women in VC. Bell is also the prior deal flow lead for Pipeline Angels, an angel group of impact investors focused on women and femmes to build over 7M portfolio. Lisha also serves as board chair for Black Girl Ventures. She is a recognized employee resource group leader with over 20 years experience a fortune 500 companies.

In her spare time she enjoys traveling, cooking, and dancing, all while balancing motherhood duties with her daughter. Lisha holds a BSc in Business Administration, Information Systems from USC ,as well as MBAs from UC Berkeley and Columbia Business Schools where she was recognized as the USC Widney Outstanding Alumna and 2013 Berkeley Columbia Distinguished Service Award recipient, respectively. She has been featured in Forbes, Huffpost, Bloomberg, Cheddar TV, and Black Enterprise.

Sub-speicalties:

Lisha represents marginalized voices and stories that are not mainstream.
As a strategic business leader, consumer champion, and experienced public speaker, Lisha is perfectly poised to help both individuals and companies with issues ranging from tech to diversity and inclusion, to corporate activation.
Lisha brings her knowledge of angel investing, wealth building and entrepreneurial prowess to her speaking engagements, captivating audiences and giving them actionable takeaways.

Lisha is knowledgeable, and has spoken on, the following topics:
Angel Investing
Diversity
Corporate Activation
Wealth Building
Entrepreneur Advisory
Maternal Advocacy