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THE DEAL MAKER WORKING TO AMPLIFY DEVELOPMENT IMPACT
How one Pioneering Deal Maker is Re-imagining Investing-By Drive Africa Writer Tokunbo Ishmael is the co-founder of Nigeria based Alitheia Capital, an investment and advisory company focused of mobilizing private equity capital into companies and SMEs serving base of the pyramid markets and consumers in Africa. A CFA charter holder, M&A specialist, and investment banker…
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MEET THE WOMAN BUILDING PAN AFRICAN TECH COMPANIES
How One Financier Seek to Build Up Africa’s Tech Startups into African Champions-By Drive Africa Writer A new generation of path breaking women in Africa’s finance and investing space is emerging. One it’s most prominent and emerging voices is Fatoumata Ba. The Senegalese born Ba is the founder and CEO of Janngo, an investment company…
A GLOBAL FINANCIER AND POLICY MAKER
IMF’s Antoinette Sayeh-A Global Thought Leader for Challenging Times-By Drive Africa Writer Antoinette Sayeh is Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where she is the first African to be appointed to the position since 1999. Sayeh, who also previously served as former Liberian Finance minister, was appointed early 2020. She had served…
Infrastructure Financier
Carole Wainaina: Mobilizing Finance to Build Africa’s Infrastructure In 2017 the African Development Bank announced the appointment of Kenyan Carole Wainaina as the Chief Operating Officer for the bank’s Africa 50 initiative. Africa50 is an infrastructure fund owned by African governments, institutional investors, and the African Development bank whose mission is to mobilise long term…
The Pan African Banker
Binta Toure Ndoye, A Banking Powerhouse with a Pan African Passion In 2016, Malian banking powerhouse Binta Toure Ndoye, took over the helm of one of Africa’s fastest growing banks-Oragroup. Binta joined Oragroup in 2015 as the deputy CEO following a stint with the Ecobank group where she had served as the CEO of the…
A Global Leader In Finance
Ethiopian born Mimi Alemayehou is a global leader in finance. In her work, she continues to lead initiatives which are driving African development and growth. Mimi has worked as Managing Director at Black Rhino and Chair of Blackstone Africa Infrastructure LP. The Blackstone group is one of the world’s largest private equity groups and is currently expanding its investment portfolio…