Johanna is a Co-founder at Enmasse, Founder and Managing Partner at Elevar Equity. Johanna has over twenty years experience investing in emerging markets, macroeconomics, microfinance and financial inclusion, corporate finance and economics. She brings with her a passion for a more sustainable and inclusive future for Entrepreneurial Households.

At Elevar, she has partnered with, and invested in, companies which are today some of the biggest providers of financial, MSME oriented and educational services to underserved  communities in India and Latin America. She leads Elevar’s investing strategy and priorities in Latin America, and the investing team based in Mexico City. Her role includes sourcing and underwriting of new investment opportunities, portfolio management, and partnering with entrepreneurs to achieve scale. She has played a global role in building the finance and compliance processes at Elevar and continues to actively work with the firm’s India investing team.

Prior to founding Elevar, she was at Unitus from 2004 to 2008, where she was responsible for sourcing a global pipeline of MFI partnerships and investments, working on different financing mechanisms and structures in India, Mexico and Kenya.

Johanna graduated from the ITAM (Mexico City) in Economics and started her career in 1997 as an Economist with the Central Bank of Mexico. After receiving her MBA from Stanford University in 2002, she worked as a Senior Financial Specialist at ExxonMobil’s Exploration Company.

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