Raya Papp

Investment Advisory Circle

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’s the Gender Advisor to fund manager Circulate Capital and she's passionate about her work with Cartier Women’s Initiative to support their program for women impact entrepreneurs. Raya was formerly Co-Head of Asia Pacific at LGT Impact managing the region's investment portfolio.

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.