The Board

Adrian Ackeret is a Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of elea. He is responsible for overseeing elea’s philanthropic impact investing activities focused on building, managing, and strategically supporting a portfolio of impact ventures that create lasting social impact by giving people living in absolute poverty access to employment, markets, and value chains. He currently represents elea on the boards of BagoSphere, Essmart, Kwanza Tukule, Leap Skills, and Stahili.

Before joining elea in 2013, Adrian worked at the St. Gallen Symposium, an initiative that fosters global dialogue between business, politics, and society, and at RISE management research at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship. He graduated with an M.A. in Management from the University of St. Gallen (HSG).

Adrian also serves as the Deputy Managing Director of the Max Schmidheiny Foundation, a private Swiss foundation promoting a free economic and social order. It actively supports dialogue between business, politics, and society on key issues confronting Switzerland and open societies world-wide.