Kimberly Abbott

Kimberley Abbott is CEO and founder of Vested Impact; an award-winning data platform that automatically assesses and quantifies the social & sustainable risks and impacts of companies products, services and activities, leveraging more than 300 million science-based and impact data points. Kimberley is an engineer, previously working for the United Nations, where she led the technical development and implementation of the globally recognised data platform responsible for assessing and measuring the effectiveness of the UN’s $8Bn yearly peacekeeping operations. She also previously ran an award-winning social enterprise in India, Roka, which she founded whilst at university.

Kimberley was the inaugural winner of the global UBS Female Founder Award in 2022, and she has been named; 2025 FFInc 50, 2025 Women in FinTech PowerList, 2023 NatWest and Telegraph’s 100 Entrepreneurs to watch, 2022 Standout45 in Women in Fintech PowerList, finalist in the 2020 UN Secretary Generals Innovation Awards, 2017 UK’s Top 50 Women in Engineering, 2018 Engineers Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers, and Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women