Extensive board and committee experience, significant relationships across industries, deep banking experience (30 years experience)

• Experienced financial professional with 30 years banking experience

• Former Executive Director, GTBank and Divisional Head, Digital Banking Group

• Extensive board and committee experience with GTBank

• Banking experience covering Credit Risk Management; Corporate Banking; Commercial Banking; Investment Banking and Corporate Finance

• Led several landmark debt syndications, capital market and project finance transactions both in Nigeria and abroad.

• Bachelor of Law degree from Obafemi Awolowo University; B.L from the Nigerian Law School and MBA from Oxford University

• Executive management and banking specific developmental programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD)

Experienced Risk Management professional, skilled at structuring infrastructural transactions (40 years experience)

• Former Chief Risk Officer at Africa Finance Corporation

• Non-Executive Director of FCMB Group Limited and FCMB Bank (UK).

• Experienced Risk Management professional with forty years experience in the financial services industry

• Skilled in structuring of complex infrastructural related transactions, risk management (design and implementation of policies within an Enterprise Risk Management Framework), remedial debt restructuring, structured trade finance, portfolio management, corporate governance, compliance, banking operations and board director functions, applied to a Pan African environment..

• Held senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank, BNP (now BNPP) and Bank of America

• Holds a BA (Hons) History & Politics from the University of Liverpool, England and MA in Latin American Government & Politics from the University of Essex, England

Experienced private equity executive, significant entrepreneurial experience, extensive board and committee experience (20 years experience)

• Experienced senior private equity executive with over 20 years of experience, of which over 10 years on the ground experience in Africa with expertise in origination, deal execution, portfolio management, exits and fundraising

• Served as a Director/Senior Investment Professional at (ECP), one of the largest Africa-focused private equity firms with more than $2.6 billion raised over 18 years investing across Africa where she executed and exited transactions with a total value of about $500 million in agribusiness, financial services (insurance and banks), oil & gas primarily in West Africa with some exposure to east Africa

• Significant entrepreneurial experience in the convenience food sector in Nigeria - Co-founder and Director, Amayi Foods Limited - 2015 to present

• Extensive board and committee experience with the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (appointed to the inaugural board in 2015), Continental Reinsurance Plc (publicly listed company), Amayi Foods Limited (an entrepreneurial venture)

• Founder, SEK Capital (SME Advisory) - 2019 to present

• Advisor, TheBoardroom Africa - 2019 to present

• EMBA – Trium (NYU, LSE, HEC), BA – Mathematics/Economics (minor) Mount Holyoke College, USA

Significant advisory, entrepreneurial, investment banking, advisory and principal investing experience (25 years experience)

• Founding principal partner at Iroko Capital, where he built an Investment Bank as well as set up an Issuing House, Brokerage Franchise and Fund Management business. He has primary responsibility for the overall strategic direction and business performance of the Group. He led the acquisition of all the assets of Evans Medical Plc, a WHO rated pharmaceutical manufacturing company. He led some notable infrastructure advisory and capital raise transactions including the N60b Lagos Blue Line Rail and N96b Lagos Red Line Rail infrastructure financing as well as managed Lagos State Metro Fiber Duct Infrastructure concession process.

• Experienced investment expert with over 23 years of finance, transaction structuring and advisory experience. He has executed over 50 transactions with aggregate value more than US$5bn in Nigeria and United States of America.

• Significant advisory, entrepreneurial, investment banking, advisory and principal investing experience

• Founding partner of Rembrandt Advisory where he led the advisory effort in the privatization sale of a major government asset (Nitel and Mtel) including the arrangement of $450million in financing from leading Nigerian Banks for the acquisition

• As a senior manager at Ernst & Young, his client portfolio included Amareda Hess Corporation, Koch Industries, British Petroleum, Halliburton and National Oilwell/Varco among others

• Ken is a US CPA, and he holds a B.Sc. Actuarial Science & Insurance, University of Lagos and M.Sc. University of Houston

Significant principal investing, entrepreneurial, fund raising, portfolio management, expertise (25 years experience)

• Demola is a partner at Iroko Capital. He has a successful track record of principal investing in Nigeria

• He structured the initial investment and follow-on acquisition to create a Promethean Resources – which is developing a local supply chain for battery metals – with a toal investment to date of $20 million

• Prior to this, Demola led the principal investing function at Ocean & Oil Holdings / Avante Capital, the core investor in Oando plc. In this role he was responsible for fund allocation, strategic investments, portfolio management, and performance monitoring. In this role, he:
  1. Structured a last-mile fibre optic network play leveraging on Gaslink’s right-of-way
  2. Led the evaluation of the oilfield services industry which led to an investment in the sector
  3. Led the evaluation of a potential acquisition of a refinery
  4. Led several other market pioneering transactions including the company’s public offer for $130 million

• Demola has also served as a Senior Adviser to Nigeria’s Ministers of Solid Minerals and Finance.

• He has previously held positions at Hewlett Packard, Sprint PCS, and Mellon Ventures

• Demola holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from Stanford University, and a B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from Howard University

• Chairman Board of Directors, Nestle Nigeria Plc – 2013 – present

• ED, Nestle Nigeria 2003–2006; ED Nestle Ghana 1999-2003

• Chairman Board of Directors, - Seaico Technologies 2018 - present

• CEO – Africa First Limited - 2010 - present

• Chairman, Board of Directors – Cutix Plc, 2012 - 2016

• Non-Exec. Dorector, Sun Trust Bank

• Pionner, Head of Surveillance Department - Pencom

• Former Director - Financial Reporting Council

• Senior Bank Examiner – CBN

• Financial Controller - Habib Nigeria Bank Ltd

• Chartered Accountant (ICAN)

• MBA - Ahmadu Bello University

• Founder /Principal Partner, Iroko Capital Partners – 2010 to present

• Partner/Cofounder Rembrandt Advisory (now Constant Capital) 2005 – 2010

• Senior Manager – EY Transaction Advisory, Houston, 1996 to 2004

• US CPA

• M.Sc - University of Houston

• Partner, Iroko Capital partners – 2020 to present

• Founder, Promethean Resources Limited – 2012 to present

• Co-Founder – E-Motion Advertising 2007 to 2019

• BS Howard University, MS Stanford University

• MBA – Harvard Business School

• Founder, SEK Capital (SME Advisory) – 2019 to present ; Co-founder and Director, Amayi Foods Limited - 2015 to present

• Director, Emerging Capital Partners – 2002 to 2018

• Director, Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund – 2015 to 2017

• Director, Oando Nigeria plc – 2010 to 2014

• EMBA – Trium (NYU, LSE, HEC)

• Founding Partner, Aelex – 2004 to present

• Founding Partner, Anga & Emuwa – 1990 to 2004

• Founding Partner, L.F. Anga & Co.

• Chairman, Capital Markets Solicitors Association

• Chairman, Board of Trustees of the Investors Protection Fund of the Nigerian Stock Exchange

• BL, Ghana Law School.

• BL, Nigerian Law School