Our people

We combine expertise and competencies, embedding social and environmental issues into business strategies and operations, and conceiving and implementing customized investment and financing schemes generating financial return as well as ESG impact.

Ksapa operates with networks and experts primarily located across the following locations: Berlin, Brussels, Geneva, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, London, Mexico DF, Nairobi, New Delhi, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo

Social and Environmental expertise

We have deep expertise in social and environmental issues across industries and regions. We understand the connections between these issues as well as the diverse perspectives of business and stakeholders

Innovative finance expertise

We have deep expertise in innovative finance to combine interests and objectives of financial institutions, companies and their strategic supply chain partners. We know how to develop sustainability-themed investing programs, active ownership and impact investing solutions accelerating deployment of scalable solutions generating financial return, resilience and inclusiveness

Digital transformation

We embrace digital transformations as a cost effective vehicle able to shift capital, reach large scales and manage complexity to accelerate fulfilment of SDG 2030 agenda

Practical

We are practical. Connecting the dots between Board of Directors and operations on the ground, we translate ideas into real outcomes that deliver value for business and society

Positive impact

We strive for positive social and environmental impact in all the work that we do and in the way we manage our company

Founders

Ksapa draws on the complementarity of competencies and convergence of views of its cofounders.

Farid Baddache is the main author of this blog about resilience, impact and inclusion subject

Farid Baddache
CEO

Farid Baddache knows how to leverage Environmental, Social and Ethical performance, to innovate and improve competitiveness of assets and business operations. Farid has been working with top decision makers pursuing transformational changes for their organizations, leaders and industries. Working with executives improving resilience and competitiveness of their company and products given their climate and human right business agendas.

Global profile with +20 year experience in sustainability combining corporate experience (consumer sectors, industries), NGO, academic, development, and consulting. Former Managing Director at BSR for 10+ years. BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) is a global nonprofit organization that works in consultancy, research and collaborative programs with a network of more than 250 member companies. Farid has designed and implemented programs for 150+ clients across 100+ countries. Farid Baddache is member of several stakeholder panels, think tanks, impact investment funds, and is board member of impact investment funds.

Author of several books and resources on business, sustainability and responsibility, he won a business book award in 2006.

Farid speaks French, English, Spanish, German, and Portuguese. He holds an M.B.A. from the ESSEC Business School in Paris, an M.B.A. from the National University of Singapore in Clean Technology, and a Ph.D in Organizational Sociology from EHESS, the Paris School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences. Connect with Farid Baddache on Twitter at @Fbaddache

Raphael Hara
Managing Director

Raphaël Hara is specialized in conceiving and implementing complex investment schemes, acting internationally to organize secure and performing investments, through legal structuring, financial modelization and analysis and operations management.

Raphaël Hara has 20+ years of experience as a manager in finance and investment management.

Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Managing Director and Partner at Europrestim Management, a real-estate oriented development company, fund management and multiclass asset management company acting throughout Europe on behalf of European and Middle-Eastern investors (family office, private equity) and managing up to 750 M€ of assets. He has been in charge for over 18 years of finance, fund management, structuring, investment modelization and analysis, IT management and bank relationships management, as well as management of acquisitions processes of several real estate assets and companies.

Raphaël has been Member of the Board and Manager of several regulated and unregulated companies in different European countries, as owner and/or as shareholders’ representative.

He also has experience in the internet, physical distribution and music industries.

Raphaël speaks French, English, German and Portuguese. He holds an M.B.A. from the ESSEC Business School in Paris. He also completed a composition programme at Arpej jazz school and remains involved in music production. He recently completed a forward looking course on ”Futures, Innovation and Sustainable Development” at “Institut des Futurs Souhaitables”.