Ambitious Impact (AIM) - Team Page
webThis is the team page for Ambitious Impact (AIM), formerly Charity Entrepreneurship, an organization that incubates high-impact nonprofits in areas like global health, animal welfare, and effective altruism. It is tangentially relevant to AI safety as part of the broader EA ecosystem that includes AI safety funding and research.
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This page lists the staff and trustee board of Ambitious Impact (AIM), an organization focused on charity incubation and grantmaking in effective altruism cause areas including global health, animal welfare, and development. The team includes researchers, program managers, and operations staff who support launching high-impact nonprofits. AIM is part of the broader EA ecosystem that intersects with AI safety funding and coordination efforts.
Key Points
- •Ambitious Impact (AIM) is led by CEO Samantha Kagel, who took over in December 2025 from co-founder Joey Savoie.
- •The organization runs flagship programs including Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation and Impactful Grantmaking.
- •Research focus areas include animal welfare, global health, and development — adjacent to EA cause prioritization.
- •Trustee board includes co-founders of organizations like Fish Welfare Initiative, New Incentives, and Shrimp Welfare Project.
- •AIM is part of the broader effective altruism ecosystem that includes AI safety as a priority cause area.
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MEET OUR TEAM
Samantha Kagel
Chief Executive Officer
Trish Kennelly
Founding to Give Program Manager
Morgan Fairless
Research Director
Ben Williamson
Special Projects
Isabella (Izzy) Mencattelli
Operations Manager
Aidan Alexander
Chief Operating Officer
Steve Thompson
Charity Entrepreneurship Program Manager
Vicky Cox
Senior Research Manager (Animals)
Emma Stoks
Recruitment Director
Jacintha Baas
Chief Growth Officer
Samuel Harvey
Charity Entrepreneurship Program Manager
Filip Murár
Senior Research Manager (Health & Development)
Crystal Lam
Recruitment Manager
Joey Savoie
Co-Founder and
CEO (Outgoing)
Ezra Hausdorff
Charity Growth Manager
Shaileen McGovern
Research Manager (Animal Welfare)
Brechtje van den Bosch
Operations Director
Judith Rensing
Chief of Staff
Martijn Klop
Grantmaking Support
Dylan Collins
Visiting Research Fellow
Dilan Fernando
Senior Operations Manager
TRUSTEE BOARD
Thomas Billington
Co-Founder,
Fish Welfare Initiative
Karolina Sarek
Co-Founder, Ambitious Impact; Chair, EA Animal Welfare Fund
Akhil Bansal
Doctor; Head of AMR Funding Circle at Schmidt Futures; Research Advisor to The Life You Can Save
Patrick Stadler
Co-Founder, New Incentives; Co-Founder and Managing Director, Pour Demain
Andres Jimenez Zorrilla
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Shrimp Welfare Project
SAMANTHA KAGEL
CEO
Samantha took over as CEO of Ambitious Impact in December 2025. Prior to this, she owned the management and execution of our flagship Charity Entrepreneurship program as Chief Program Officer, driving forward our efforts to refine the model and scale its impact.
Before joining AIM, she was a non-profit consultant specializing in agile project management, learning & development, team design, and business strategy. Prior to switching into the nonprofit sector, Samantha worked at Google and Disney, and holds business and management degrees from the University of Texas and University College Dublin.
JOEY SAVOIE
Co-founder and CEO (Outgoing)
Joey works on high-level strategy across all the departments and mentorship and training for the participants of the Incubation Programs. He is also one of the primary contributors to the handbook " How to Start a High-Impact Nonprofit ".
Prior to AIM, Joey co-founded Charity Science, a meta-organization that increased the amount of counterfactual funding going to high-impact charities. Subsequently, he co-founded Charity Science Health, a nonprofit that increases vaccination rates in India using mobile phones and behavioral nudges. He has given lectures on various aspects of charity entrepreneurship and Effective Altruism in Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, EAG London, EAG San Francisco, Berlin, Basel, Vancouver, Stockholm, and others.
AIDAN ALEXANDER
Chief Operating Officer
Aidan’s mandate is to scal
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