Jane Chen is a social entrepreneur who co-founded Embrace, a social venture that created an affordable baby warmer to help premature and low-birth weight babies. As CEO of Embrace, Chen oversaw the distribution of the baby warmer, which costs 1% of an incubator, to hospitals in India and other countries. To date, the Embrace baby warmer has helped over 150,000 infants. Prior to Embrace, Chen worked on healthcare issues in developing countries for non-profits. She has received numerous awards and honors for her social entrepreneurship and impact.

1. Social Entrepreneur
Jane Chen

2. Introduction To Social Entrepreneurs
• Social entrepreneurship is the endeavour to attract upon
business procedures to discover answers for social
problems. This idea may be connected to an assortment of
associations with distinctive sizes, points, and convictions.
• Conventional entrepreneurs typically measure execution in
benefit and return, yet social ambitious people likewise
consider a constructive come back to society. Social
business enterprise regularly endeavours to further
expansive social, social, and ecological objectives is
frequently connected with the voluntary sector. At times,
benefit likewise may be a thought for specific organizations
or other social enterprises.

3. Jane Chen’s work
• Jane Marie Chen (conceived December 5, 1978) is the fellow benefactor of
Embrace, a social undertaking start up that expects to help the 20 million
untimely and low conception weight babies conceived consistently,
through a minimal effort new-born child warmer.
• As of now, Chen serves as CEO of Embrace Innovations, which has a
mission to plan and convey to market medicinal services advancements
for the creating scene, beginning with the new-born child warmer. The
Embrace new-born child warmer expenses around 1% of a conventional
incubator, and is presently being circulated over centres in India, with it
being directed in 10 nations. The Embrace new-born child warmer is
evaluated to have helped more than 150,000 infants to date.
• Chen served as the first Chief Executive Officer of Embrace, the non-
benefit arm of the association, before going into the CEO part for Embrace
Innovations, the revenue driven social venture that was spun off in 2012.

4. History of their venture
• Prior to Embrace, Chen worked with non-profit organizations on healthcare issues in
developing countries. She spent several years as the Program Director of a start-up
HIV/AIDS non-profit in China (Chi Heng Foundation), and worked for the Clinton
Foundation’s HIV/AIDS Initiative in Tanzania. She also worked at Monitor Group as a
management consultant, advising companies.
• Chen has been a TED speaker, and was selected as one of Forbes' Impact 30 in 2011.In
2011, Chen was also recognized as the Inspirational Young Alumni of the Year by Pomona
College, and was the keynote speaker at Stanford’s Women in Management event in the
same year. She is also featured in Stanford’s “Tradition of Innovation,” and speaks at
various international conferences, including the Skoll World Forum.
• In 2012, Chen was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and
was featured in Dove's "Real Role Models" campaign for women and girls. She is also
profiled in AOL’s Makers campaign. Chen is a TED India Fellow, TED Senior Fellow,
Echoing Green Fellow, and Rainer Arnhold Fellow.
• In 2013, Chen and the other co-founders of Embrace, Linus Liang, Nag Murty, and Rahul
Panicker were awarded the prestigious Economist Innovation Award, under the category of
Social and Economic Innovation. In the same year, Chen and her co-founder Rahul
Panicker were also recognized as Schwab Social Entrepreneurs of the Year by the World
Economic Forum.

5. Impact of their venture
• She has helped over a thousand children in
Africa and all over the world.
• Her low cost baby warmer has also saved
many newborn infant lives from dying from
lack of warmth.
• She has become a TED speaker and impacted
the lives of many with her speeches.

6. Credits
http://www.forbes.com/impact-30/jane-
chen.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Chen
Team members:
Gerald Tan
John Benedict
Jonathan Ong