About Wayan Vota
Wayan Vota is an award-winning strategist with three decades leading mission-driven organizations in strategic growth. His work has one focus: making institutional money move better. He has raised it at a nine-figure scale, he has sat on the funder side designing how it gets given away, and he builds the digital tools that improve both sides of the transaction.
Two numbers frame how he wins the money himself, and he builds the networks that make other people win it.
- Wayan has won $348M+ in new institutional funding as a capture and proposal lead across foundation, government, and corporate funders.
- Separately, a further $168M+ was won by others through Technology Salon, the community of practice he ran for 17 years, where conversations seeded the consortia that went on to win. Each win was verified rather than estimated.
Today he is Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at Intelehealth, a global health nonprofit delivering over 20 million telemedicine consultations to patients in three countries, where he built a $1M operating surplus in six months.
He also knows the giving side from the inside.
At USAID he led the AI practice area and co-created the Responsible AI Fund, and in Zambia he designed a $4M funding instrument that mobilized $40M in private-sector investment into tech and tech-enabled companies. Each week he publishes a deep read of a major foundation, showing who they fund and why.
Wayan builds digital tools rather than just talking about it.
- He ships a working fundraising AI tool every month, each with explicit limits on what AI should not do.
- At Deloitte he engineered a generative AI tool for government buyers that won $30M in new business before AI went mainstream.
- At IntraHealth he shipped iHRIS, the open-source workforce system running in 20+ Ministries of Health.
His wins span health, education, agriculture, and economic development, through senior roles at USAID, Deloitte, IntraHealth, FHI 360, and beyond. He publishes ICTworks, reaching 20,000+ subscribers three times a week.
After hours, Wayan designs highly popular card games, including JadedAid and KinderPerfect, with his lovely wife Amy, daughters Hanalei and Archer, and the family mascot, Addi Dog.