Sandeep Farias leads Elevar globally and is responsible for the firm’s strategy and organizational development, while engaging with entrepreneurs in India and Latin America to think through inflection points in their entrepreneurial journeys. Sandeep has close to 25 years of work experience in diverse areas such as emerging markets investing, governance and regulation, organizational design, transactions and structuring, and corporate law. He founded Elevar in 2008, being passionately driven by working with early stage companies that foster economic development for low income communities; particularly in financial services including MSME finance and microfinance (where he played a leadership role in the sector’s transformation over a decade from the non-profit space to formal banking), affordable education, healthcare and agricultural services.

Johanna co-founded Elevar in 2008 with the view that “The efficient allocation of capital into the hands of productive communities in developing countries creates wealth and a foundation for prosperity. We accomplish this by maintaining an investment discipline and backing entrepreneurs who know best how to serve and empower their clients. We can positively impact people’s lives by promoting scalable, market based solutions that address their needs.” Johanna has over 17 years of emerging markets investing experience, corporate finance, microfinance and economics. She has partnered with and invested in companies which are today some of the biggest providers of services to disconnected communities in India and Latin America.

Jyotsna is Managing Partner at Elevar and a founding team member at Enmasse. She leads the firm’s investing strategy and priorities in India, along with driving the overall fund performance globally. While building Elevar’s investing practice in India, she has closely partnered with entrepreneurs building transformational business models in sectors such as agriculture, MSME services, affordable education and quality healthcare.