Nate Heller ’09, MoPhones

A conversation with Nate Heller, a Yale SOM alum with over two
decades of experience in international social enterprise and
development, including stints with the Peace Corps and the UN.
Nate has spent 12 years building innovative distribution and
finance channels for poor consumers in West Africa. Nate
co-founded PEG Africa, a distributed renewables FinTech that
revolutionized access to clean energy, touching the lives of over
a million people. His recent venture, MoPhones, aims to make
high-quality mobile phones accessible.


Nate is interviewed by Jivika Mangwani ’25 of Yale SOM’s Net
Impact club.


Read an unedited transcript of this episode.