Olivier Kayser

Olivier Kayser is the Managing Director of Hystra, a global consulting firm specialised in inclusive business that support corporations, social businesses and social investors in designing sustainable and scalable strategies for the Base of the Pyramid.

From 2003 to 2008, he was a VP of Ashoka, launching its France and UK operations, creating the global Ashoka Support Network and advising its Full Economic Citizenship Initiative. He was a senior partner at McKinsey for 18 years in Europe, the US and Asia. At age 23, he founded TER a consulting firm serving French public sector. Olivier is a board member of two multi-billion Euros companies and non-profits, including GAIN until April 2013. Olivier graduated from HEC in 1979.