Iris Duan works where capital, product, and a good story have to meet. She's on the investment team at Summit Capital, working across the Pacific, and handles GTM and business development at Yesod AI, a clinical-trials data infrastructure company. She also owns Avancer Global and runs Avancer Admissions, a practice built around honest storytelling.

Her background spans finance at Emory's Goizueta Business School, investment banking at HCP Switzerland, and study at Bocconi in Milan. She's interested in how early-stage companies earn trust, how technical products find their market, and how people tell their story without sanding away what makes it theirs.

She can speak to early-stage investing, cross-Pacific business, startup GTM, and admissions storytelling.

Her nonprofit work includes fundraising and partnerships. She has spoken at two TEDx events.