Managing Director & COOelea Foundation
Stefan Kappeler is Managing Director & COO at elea Foundation for Ethics in Globalization (www.elea.org), an active philanthropic impact investor fighting absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means supporting social enterprises and entrepreneurial organizations in creating sustainable and measurable impact. As a member of elea’s leadership team, Stefan is responsible for elea’s investment process and serves as a board member of some of elea’s portfolio companies in Kenya, the United States, and Zimbabwe. Prior to joining elea, he worked at Infosys, a business process outsourcing giant, in India, and Esri, the global market leader of geographic information systems (GIS), in Africa and Europe. For Esri, he established a business in Rwanda and significantly contributed to the adoption and countrywide roll-out of GIS. Stefan holds a Master of Science from the University of Zurich and a Master of Business Administration from the University of St.Gallen.