Raya Papp

Founding Partner, SAGANA

Raya Papp is Founding Partner at SAGANA, a global impact investing and advisory firm where she focuses on Healthcare and Gender-Smart Investments. Raya also advises PE/VC funds in integrating a gender lens across their firm, investment processes and portfolio companies. She co-authored several reports in the sector including "Gender Lens Investing in Waste Management and Recycling" and “Gender Lens Investing Landscape - Asia”. And she's passionate about her work with Cartier Women’s Initiative to support their program for women impact entrepreneurs.

She was formerly Co-Head of Asia Pacific at LGT Impact managing the region's investment portfolio. She ran the Social Enterprise Team at Impact Investment Exchange Asia, and served as interim Director of Water for Cambodia, a clean water NGO.

Raya began her career on Wall Street holding various positions in corporate finance and M&A at Morgan Stanley, Thomson Reuters and Deutsche Bank. She worked at tech start-up Priceline.com, closing two rounds of private equity and the IPO.

She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia.