Ricardo Bayon

Encourage Capital, Founder and Partner

Ricardo Bayon is a Founder and Partner of Encourage Capital, a new asset management firm focused on profitable and strategic investments to solve critical social and environmental problems. Encourage Capital seeks to build a community of investors, foundations, market leading companies, governments and nonprofits who are working together to address some of the world’s most challenging issues while generating financial returns for its investors. Prior to Encourage Capital, he founded the Ecosystem Marketplace and is a co-author of various books on ecosystem services. He was born in Bogota, Colombia, and is currently based in San Francisco.