John Duong

John Duong is the Founder of Kind Capital, an impact investing platform and investment firm to drive scalable, sustainable impact profitably. He was formerly the Managing Director and Founder of Lumina Impact Ventures, the $50 million impact investing arm of Lumina Foundation.

Previously he was Program & Portfolio Officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, managing a $110+ million MRI and PRI investments portfolio across funds and direct investments and making grants to further the field of impact investing. John started his career as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, and Merrill Lynch in various roles, including M&A advisory, credit risk analysis, equity research, capital structure optimization, and corporate finance in debt and equity products. John has extensive for-profit and nonprofit board experience, including Cell-Ed, Upswing, BrightHive, EduNav, Credly, Global Communities, and AAPIP.

John earned his bachelor’s degree in economics and East Asian studies from Yale University and has an Executive Master of Business Administration focused on management and entrepreneurship from the Kellogg School of Management. Born in Cambodia, John immigrated to the U.S. at a young age. He grew up in La Crosse, WI, after the Catholic Sisters of St. Francis sponsored him and his parents to the United States upon surviving the Khmer Rouge concentration camp.