Corporate Team

Joanne Yoong is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of RFI. In this role, she is principally responsible for the conduct of RFI’s work in accordance with its organizational values, and for the short and long term corporate strategy. She provides leadership to the management team and oversight and support to the RFI team as a whole while representing the organization in dialogue with sponsors and collaborators.

Contact Joanne at joanne@rforimpact.com

Suan took on the role of COO at Research For Impact to help guide her teammates to deliver high quality, data-driven health and social research. She oversees RFI’s suite of research and evaluation projects and provides guidance on research management, study design, protocol development and ethics, data collection, analysis, and reporting. She also works closely with the CEO and CFO on strategic matters, including business development, stakeholder engagement, and capacity-building.

Contact Suan at suan@rforimpact.com

Yik Lin’s career has spanned the public sector to MNCs to SMEs to startups, covering a wide range of responsibilities, such as strategy, policy, finance, client management, programme design and project management. As a Vice-President at the Bank of New York Mellon, a Group CFO at Shooting Gallery Asia, the General Manager at FireForge Games (Singapore) and most recently as a Principal Senior Director at Temasek Foundation, he has built and managed many high-performance teams with a strong and positive organisation culture. He hopes to contribute similarly at RFI.

Contact Yik Lin at yiklin@rforimpact.com

In more than 17 years of Sherria’s career, she has worked with national governments and international organizations in Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa, both in advisory and leadership positions. In the past 5 years, Sherria assumed back-to-back roles as a global lead, providing strategic directions and operational guidance in Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East. Her leadership style is constantly shaped by each multinational and interdisciplinary team that she led. She learned that a plan is only as good as the modifications it is willing to accommodate through listening to different voices and wisdom.

Contact Sherria at sherria@rforimpact.com

A natural fit for his economist portfolio, Oliver oversees and monitors the company’s cash flow and financial transactions, as well as produces financial projections. He strives for good documentation and insightful analysis, as well as to provide accurate and updated information to facilitate rational decision-making.

Contact Oliver at oliver@rforimpact.com

Jamie is a Senior Finance Executive at RFI. With a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Accountancy and Finance Management from the University of Portsmouth, she brings 14 years of invaluable finance experience to her role. She upholds good governance and operational excellence through her responsible delivery of financial functions such as accounting, treasury and reporting, with strict adherence to statutory requirements and in line with RFI’s organisational policies and strategic vision.

Contact Jamie at jamie@rforimpact.com

Tale as old as time. We tell stories, we consume them, we reflect on them. At Research For Impact, effective storytelling forms the foundation of our communications philosophy. In her communications role, Cheryl seeks to engage and connect with our diverse stakeholders across various media channels. She believes in democratising specialised research knowledge through accessible and creative narratives that not only foster meaningful dialogues but also inspire action and drive transformative policies.

Contact Cheryl at cheryl@rforimpact.com