Yunus Social Business Colombia

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of Grameen Bank who pioneered microfinance and the social business model; co-founded Yunus Social Business in 2011.

Co-founded Yunus Social Business in Germany in 2011 to expand the social business model globally.

Suresh K Krishna is the co-founder, Managing Director and CEO of Navaka Social Business Fund (formerly Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru) and a co-founder and partner of Yunus Social Business India Initiatives, which provides finance to social businesses in India. He previously served as Managing Director of CreditAccess Grameen from 1999 to 2015 and co-founded the microfinance associations AKMI and MFIN, and he currently serves as an independent director of Sanghamitra Rural Financial Services, Grameen Foundation India, and Child Fund India. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and has studied at institutions including Harvard Business School and the Institute of Rural Management Anand.

Francisco Vicente is Co-CEO and Partner for LatAm at Yunus Negócios Sociais, part of the global organization co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus, where he has worked for over 12 years in roles spanning investment and business development. He holds an MBA from Hult International Business School and has a background in administration and accounting, with earlier experience in a family business and at Johnson & Johnson before moving into impact investing in 2011. His work includes co-creating a local investment fund (FIDC), managing due diligence and portfolio processes, and developing blended finance vehicles and impact programs such as Zunne, which supports women-, Black-, and indigenous-led businesses in Brazil's North and Northeast regions.

Murali Srinivas is Managing Director at Yunus Social Business. He has over 20 years of experience in the social enterprise sector, spanning leadership, operational, and consulting roles across areas including microfinance, housing, drinking water and sanitation, insurance, and pensions.

Mila Ladeia is Senior Investment Manager and Partner for Brazil at Yunus Social Business, where she leads investment origination and serves as CFO. She has more than 18 years of experience in the financial sector, spanning FP&A, controllership, new business development, project analysis, and investments, and holds a degree in Business Administration from Mackenzie University, a specialization in Finance from FIPECAFI/USP, and a Master's in Strategic Management from Insper. She also volunteers as a board member at Emperifa and supports Litro de Luz.

Raj Kumar is Head of Investment at Navaka Social Business Fund, where he works with early-stage founders on product-market fit and scaling. His experience spans impact investing, business development, fundraising, corporate banking, credit assessment, and portfolio management across sectors including agriculture, healthcare, education, sustainability, and clean energy. He previously worked as a Scientist/Engineer at ISRO (2011–2014), including on the Mars mission team, and at TCS in 2010, and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Lucknow and a degree in Computer Science Engineering from SLIET, Punjab.

Operations Manager and Regional Chapter Director who has consulted with business owners for over 25 years across marketing, sales, HR, production, and finance, focusing on strategy, team development, and negotiations.

Gayana Lakshmipathy is an Investment Manager at Yunus Social Business, where she works on identifying, evaluating, and supporting social enterprises in emerging markets, including due diligence, deal structuring, and portfolio management. She has over six years of experience in finance and investment, with prior roles in investor relations and fundraising at Chiratae Ventures, investment banking at Dexter Capital Advisors, and auditing at JCSS. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Mount Carmel College and is fluent in English, Kannada, and Hindi.

Sai Kumar is Principal – Investments at Navaka Social Business Fund (formerly Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru), where he leads deal lifecycle processes for early and growth-stage social enterprises. He has more than 14 years of experience across impact investing, private equity, and cross-border M&A advisory, including a prior role at o3 Capital advising on mid-size M&A and PE transactions in the technology sector across the US and India. He also serves as Visiting Faculty at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, teaching finance.

Venugopal Gupta is a Senior Advisor at Yunus Social Business and ASE Infra Partners, focusing on investment strategy, sustainable infrastructure, and impact investment ecosystems. As former Managing Director of the Toilet Board Coalition, he led a global platform supporting sanitation economy innovation across 87 enterprises in 15 countries, which mobilized more than $40 million in private sector investment. His career spans over 25 years in impact investing, venture acceleration, and infrastructure private equity, and he holds an MBA from INSEAD.