SAGANA

Wolfgang Hafenmayer is Chief Investment Officer and a Founding Partner of Circulate Capital, where he oversees the firm's global investment strategy, diligence, structuring, and governance across regional teams. He has over 20 years of experience and more than 150 executed deals in impact investing, with prior roles at LGT Impact and as Founding Partner and Chairman of SAGANA, and authored the book "Die Zukunftsmacher/The FutureMakers." He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen.

Shweta Poddar is an Associate Partner at SAGANA, where she leads the Consulting practice focused on gender-smart investing, impact strategy, and technical assistance for development finance institutions and fund managers across Asia and Africa. Her background includes roles at Impact Traveller, where she headed operations and co-led strategy for the social enterprise, and at Impact Investment Exchange Asia's private equity arm. Poddar holds a degree in Commerce with Honors from SRCC, Delhi University, and an MBA from NUS Business School, Singapore.

Adeline Permata is a Senior Consulting Associate at SAGANA, a global impact investment advisory firm. She brings over five years of experience in impact investing, previously serving on the investment team at New Energy Nexus, where she focused on early-stage climate entrepreneurs, and earlier managing solar PV projects at Xurya, an Indonesian clean energy company. She holds a Bachelor of New Energy Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and co-founded Inutec Surya Indonesia, a solar PV component distributor.

Akash Singh is a Senior Investment Director at Sagana Capital, where he evaluates early and growth stage opportunities in climate technology. He previously worked in the private equity consulting practice at Bain, advising investment firms on commercial due diligence, portfolio value creation, and investment strategy.

Ananya Chatterjee is an Executive Administrative Assistant at Intuit with over 9 years of experience providing executive-level support. She manages complex calendars, coordinates events, and maintains confidentiality while communicating across organizational levels. Her technical proficiency includes Microsoft Office Suite, Google Workspace, and project management platforms.

Archita Adlakha is an Impact & Investment Advisor at Sagana who works on investment strategies combining financial returns with social impact. She has experience in financial modeling, deal structuring, and due diligence, and has contributed to projects including the Samridh Healthcare Blended Finance Facility. Based in Barcelona and Delhi, she also serves as a strategic advisor at Là Fuori.

Arpitha Rao is a Consulting Director at SAGANA who advises funds, development finance institutions, family offices, and climate founders on strategy in emerging markets. With over 15 years of experience across climate, gender, education, and inclusive development sectors, she works on capital allocation, market entry, commercialization, and climate finance strategy across Asia and Africa. She also provides coaching and learning support to professionals in climate, impact, and consulting careers.

Ayesha Mehrotra is a Consulting Manager at SAGANA with a double Master's degree in Environment, Development, and Policy and over 10 years of experience in environmental management, climate strategy, and global development. Her career includes roles leading carbon strategy and net-zero programmes at Positive Planet and designing climate education for board-level audiences across APAC at AXA Climate. Her technical expertise encompasses carbon accounting, climate risk assessment, ESG reporting, and natural resource management, with demonstrated experience in stakeholder engagement and translating sustainability strategies into measurable organizational action.

Claudia Czigony is an Investment Manager at Sagana, an impact investment firm. With over five years of experience in capital deployment, she focuses on food and agriculture and ocean-related investments across Europe and North America. Her work involves advising wealth holders on portfolio alignment and supporting founders developing regenerative solutions.

Dennis Kasuku is an investment professional with experience in banking and venture capital. He holds an MSc in Finance from the University of Nairobi with a focus on banking, corporate finance, and securities law, and currently serves as a Consultant Investment Manager at SAGANA.

François Ritchot is an Investment Director at SAGANA with experience in impact investing transaction advisory, fund design and structuring, and strategy consulting. He works across North America, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South/Southeast Asia, and is fluent in English and French. His background includes buy and sell-side advisory roles and results-based management in entrepreneurial environments.

Quoted as a Sagana representative on the decarbonization engagement, describing how fragmented emissions data was turned into a credible climate narrative.

Kemal Al Idrus is an investor at SAGANA, a Swiss-headquartered impact investment advisory, where he leads Southeast Asia investments for multi-family offices and companies. Previously, he was an analyst at SV Investment in Seoul, where he led Indonesia country coverage and helped structure a USD 100 million co-GP fund bridging developed and emerging markets, focusing on deep tech, fintech, and healthcare. Al Idrus holds a degree in management with a finance major from Institut Teknologi Bandung and is pursuing an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business; he has also contributed to education access in Indonesia through work with Akademis.id and SatuEdu Foundation.

Kriti Barman is a Senior Consulting Manager at SAGANA with background in development sector work spanning research, training, facilitation, project management, and monitoring and evaluation. Her prior research has focused on labour, policy, education, and WASH, with additional interests in migration, sustainability, and cluster development. She has expertise in curriculum development and facilitation.

Macarena Machimbarrena is a Director at Sagana, where she advises foundations, governments, and development finance institutions on mobilizing private capital for impact in emerging and frontier markets, with a focus on catalytic and blended finance structures. Her work has supported the deployment of over USD 40 million across blended finance funds and financial institutions in the Global South, and she co-authored Project Catalyst mapping 126 fund managers overseeing USD 7.9 billion in gender lens investments. Previously, she held strategy and advisory roles at Ship2B Ventures in Barcelona and Dalberg Advisors in Geneva, where she worked on market-incentive facilities, development finance partnerships, and outcomes-based instruments, and she currently co-leads a university-based initiative on impact investing and innovative finance education.

Madina Niang is an Investment Manager at SAGANA focused on venture capital and impact investing across East and West Africa. Previously, she built early-stage investment portfolios at Noru Capital in Francophone West Africa and served as a Program Advisor on initiatives funded by the Mastercard Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she supported EdTech startups and programs in health, education, and gender equality. Her investment interests include agritech solutions for farmers and agricultural entrepreneurs.

Malvika Dwivedi is a Consulting Director at SAGANA, where she advises impact investors and fund managers on integrating gender lens investing and climate considerations into their strategies.

Maria Florencia Tordini is an Executive Assistant at SAGANA with over 15 years of international experience in SaaS, FinTech, Hospitality, and nonprofit sectors. She coordinates executive operations, manages stakeholder relationships, and oversees processes including travel logistics, onboarding, and event planning across multicultural teams. Tordini is fluent in English, Spanish, and German.

Milena Bacalja Perianes works with the UNICEF Innovation Fund, where she helps startups use data to communicate their impact. She previously founded two startups and worked as a Gender Lens Investing Advisor, helping investors direct capital toward more gender-equitable outcomes. At UNICEF she designed the fund's Impact Strategy and Framework for defining and measuring the impact of its investments.

Saurabh Tak spent over a decade conducting research in neuroscience, structural biology, CRISPR, mRNA, fermentation, and microfluidics at leading international laboratories before transitioning into business development, venture building, strategy consulting, and venture capital. He has worked with founders, institutions, corporations, and investors to commercialize deep tech companies and develop innovation strategies. He holds degrees from IIT Bombay and Sorbonne and currently advises ventures and investors on company building, investment strategy, and growth.

Sopheakdey Sang is a Staff Research Associate at SAGANA with over a decade of experience in finance, accounting, administration, and taxation. His background includes work supporting NGO license registration and compliance reporting for local NGOs and private sector organizations.

Sree Radhakrishnan is a Talent Manager at SAGANA with experience in recruitment, stakeholder communication, and candidate engagement. He works on recruitment strategy development, candidate evaluation, and cross-functional coordination across global teams. His background includes supporting organizations in the impact investing and sustainability sectors.

Wendy Foster is Talent Director at SAGANA with over 18 years of experience in global recruiting and executive search. She has placed senior executives and managed hiring across multiple business functions including marketing, sales, digital, finance, legal, IT, and supply chain and operations, serving clients in consulting, education, finance, FMCG, government, manufacturing, non-profit, publishing, and retail sectors.