Alban is a Director in Asset Management within the OGEF Team.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Alban spent 6 years at Goldman Sachs in London, where he focused on price verification and valuations for private credit and private equity investments.

Before that, he worked in sales at Amundi Asset Management, and in equity research at Natixis. He holds a Masters in Financial Techniques from ESSEC Business School and a Masters in Business Engineering from EPF Graduate School of Engineering. He is also a qualified chartered accountant in the UK.

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Alex joined Lion's Head in 2018 and is based in Nairobi, Kenya. He provides expertise in renewable energy, and is primarily focused on portfolio analysis for the Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (www.ogefafrica.com ).

Prior to joining Lion's Head, Alex was a senior supply chain manager at M-KOPA Solar, where he focused on demand and supply strategic planning for the Pay-As-You-Go premier company.

Before that, he was a petroleum engineer at Weatherford, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He also worked for KPMG as a risk associate.

Alex holds a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Nairobi, and is currently pursuing an MBA from Edinburgh Business School.

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Amol joined Lion’s Head in 2021 as an Executive Director in the firm's infrastructure and energy advisory team. He has more than 13 years of experience developing, investing in and managing infrastructure and renewable energy projects in South Asia and Africa.  

Prior to Lion's Head, he was Vice President at Zarou, a Blackstone portfolio company, where he was responsible for M&A, project development and project finance for energy projects in the MENA region. Preceding this, he was an Investment Manager in the infrastructure equity investments team at the CDC Group in London covering South Asia and Africa, where he co-led the set-up of CDC’s South Asia renewable power platform, Ayana.  

Prior to CDC, he was at J.P. Morgan’s Asia Infrastructure Fund in Mumbai, where he led and managed the investment in Leap Green Energy, now one of India’s largest wind power companies. He has also worked at Blackrock and J.P.Morgan’s natural resources investment banking team in New York and Mumbai.

Amol holds an MBA with Distinction from the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, a Masters in Engineering Management from Dartmouth College and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from V.J.T.I (Mumbai).  

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Brock joined Lion’s Head in 2015 and works primarily in African capital markets on behalf of the African Local Currency Bond Fund (www.alcbfund.com).

He provides expertise in financial institution assessment and regulation, microfinance and project finance. Before joining Lion’s Head, Brock was a consultant working closely with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and its national partners in Nigeria to strengthen the country’s microfinance and microinsurance sectors.

He has also worked for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and MEDA.

Brock has an MSc (Distinction) in Risk and Finance from the London School of Economics and Honours Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa.

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Carmen has over 15 years of experience in the development and financing of power projects.

Prior to joining FEI and Lion's Head, Carmen worked for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) financing renewable energy projects across Asia and North of Africa. She has extensive experience in the development, construction and commissioning of greenfield wind farms and solar power plants, and also leading M&A processes in Europe, Latin America and North of Africa as she worked for Iberdrola for more than ten years. Earlier in her career she worked for a wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa and supported Spanish companies to develop their business in the Mexican market working at the Spanish Economic and Trade Office at the Embassy of Spain in Mexico.

Carmen is an engineer and holds an MBA by Fundación CECO (ICEX), Madrid.

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Chris Canavan is a Partner at Lion’s Head Global Partners. He is based in New York.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Chris spent nine years as Director of Global Policy Development for George Soros, based at Soros Fund Management. Before that he worked for Goldman Sachs for thirteen years. His last position at Goldman was Chief Risk Officer of Goldman’s commercial bank. Before that he ran a credit trading desk in the commodities business, headed the Latin America Debt Capital Markets team, and was responsible for managing the firm’s Latin America sovereign and credit risk. Prior to joining Goldman, Chris taught economics at Boston College and Columbia University.

Chris has a Ph.D. (Economics) and an M.I.A. (International Affairs) from Columbia University and a B.A. from Oberlin College. He chairs the boards of Oberlin’s Board of Trustees, the Fund for Global Human Rights and the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He spent his childhood living in Latin America and Spain.

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Chris is based in Nairobi. He provides expertise in transaction advisory and structuring with a focus on public sector and infrastructure finance.

Chris has a wealth of experience from working in the financial consulting and banking sectors in East Africa. He joined LHGP from Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services team in Kenya providing infrastructure finance, PPP, M&A and transaction support services.

Chris holds a BSc. Actuarial Science from the University of Nairobi and is currently pursuing his MBA from the Edinburgh Business School.

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Christian is the Executive Assistant of the NY office. Heholds a Bachelor’s Degree in English: Creative Writing.

Prior to joining Lion's Head in Fall 2019, Christian spent six years with Soros Fund Management supporting the CIO and then later joined the George Soros Family Office supporting Chris Canavan and Melissa Bukuru for Global Policy Development.

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Christopher (Edge) is an expert in the structuring and execution of innovative financing solutions.

Prior to establishing LHGP, Edge spent 14 years at Goldman Sachs within the Debt Capital Markets group. In his last role he was Head of the Sovereign, Supranational and Agency team. He spent six years within the EEMEA emerging markets team, where he worked primarily in Greece, Hungary, Israel, Turkey and South Africa.

In 2002 Edge joined the European Sovereign Financing team, which he headed from 2006, providing vanilla and innovative financing solutions to Goldman Sachs’ leading franchise in this sector. During this time he worked on transactions in Belgium, Germany, and the UK.

He was the lead banker on a new multilateral development institution – The International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm), on behalf of the governments of France, Italy, Norway, Spain, South Africa, Sweden and the UK.

Edge received an MA in Biochemistry from Christ Church College at Oxford University.

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Clemens is the Co-Ceo and founding partner of Lion’s Head. He currently runs the Nairobi office which he set up in 2013.

He focuses his time on overseeing Lion’s Head Asset Management operations and is responsible for Risk Oversight as well as the firm’s overall strategic development. Over the past 10 years Clemens has been involved in advisory activities across a number of sectors, including financial services, renewable energy and agriculture.

Prior to setting up Lion’s Head, Clemens spend 13 years in investment banking, first at Morgan Stanley and then at Goldman Sachs. He worked in London, Singapore and New York and was responsible for executing a number of large structured and commodity backed financings.

Clemens holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau.

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Dan is the Chief Operating Officer at Lion's Head Global Partners

Prior to joining Lion’s Head Dan spent over 20 years with the British Army, working predominantly as a senior strategist and policy adviser in the UK Ministry of Defence. He has extensive experience in the Middle East and Africa and served operational tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He joined Lion's Head in 2017 as an Executive Director, providing strategic advice and technical expertise to a range of clients, including the Government of Jordan, USAID's INVEST initiative, and United for Global Mental Health. Dan is a graduate of the UK Joint Command and Staff Course and has an MA in International and Defence Relations from King’s College, London.

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Daniel joined Lion's Head in 2019 and brings experience in research, designing strategies and financial structures, and assessment of feasibility of investments and initiatives.

He was previously a Project Leader at Open Capital Group, a management consulting and financial advisory firm that drives growth, enables investment and builds markets across Africa, where he focussed on developing business and industry strategies and addressing difficult operational challenges for high-growth enterprises across Sub Saharan Africa to scale and attract investment.

Daniel holds a Bachelor of Business, IT degree from Strathmore University and is currently pursuing an MSc. Development Finance Degree at the Strathmore Business School.  

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Deogratius has over 8 years of experience in the infrastructure space. He previously worked at DMA Capital Group and Capital Infrastructure Partners - CIP where he was actively involved in the origination, structuring, and financing of projects across Sub-Saharan Africa. He also participated in public sector advisory with a focus on institutional preparedness for infrastructure development. He is a final year doctoral candidate in Université Côte d'Azur in France.

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Elena joined Lion’s Head as a Director in Asset Management in 2020. She is based in the New York office.  

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Elena worked for IFC Asset Management Company, a subsidiary of the World Bank Group that mobilizes commercial capital into emerging markets across 13 regional and sectoral funds. As a member of the Client Relations team, Elena actively managed relationships with the existing investors, while cultivating potential investors through the structuring, launch and raise of new products.

Prior to IFC AMC, Elena worked at the Carlyle Group. She worked across all asset classes and deal teams to close and on-board new investors as well as BD Feeder and Finder platforms.  

Elena holds a dual-MPA in International Finance from Columbia University and Economic Policy from LSE, as well as a BA from Smith College.

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Faith joined Lion’s Head’s Nairobi office in 2019 as part of the Asset Management team, with a focus on preparing and executing investments by the FEI Off-Grid Energy Access Fund.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Faith was a business analyst at Energy 4 Impact where she managed 3 solar off-grid projects in rural Rwanda, co-managed the Off-Grid Cold Chain Challenge prize competition, and provided financial and business advice to renewable energy SMEs and mini-grid project developers in East Africa.

Faith holds a BSc degree in Actuarial Science from Strathmore University and certifications from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) UK in Finance and Financial Reporting; Business Economics; Financial Mathematics; Probability & Mathematical Statistics; and Life Contingencies.

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Felix focuses on renewable energy, infrastructure, and fund structuring. His work involves both project finance and corporate transactions.

Felix joined having completed his MSc with Distinction in Carbon Finance at the University of Edinburgh Business School, focusing his thesis work on off-grid solar energy financing structures in East Africa.

Felix has also worked in renewables at developers and manufacturers based in Switzerland and Denmark, where he focused on energy policy and its effect on both domestic solar as well as utility-scale wind power.

Felix also holds an MA with Honours from the University of Edinburgh in International Relations.

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Fola is a director at Lion’s Head, focusing on debt and vehicle structuring and equity finance in Africa, with over sixyears of corporate finance, accounting and banking.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Fola worked in the finance and strategy division of one of the largest commercial banks in Africa,Guaranty Trust Bank plc (GTBank) where she was responsible for devising strategic initiatives to achieve the Bank’s aspirations, one of which was to be the most profitable bank in Africa

Gaia specialises in Climate and WASH finance.

She has advised both private and public sector clients on various projects across the climate finance spectrum, from Green Bonds to Carbon Tax Policy, and brings expertise in innovative financing structures to development projects.

Gaia joined Lion’s Head from Vivid Economics where she focused on climate finance and policy, advising a range of clients, from large industry corporates to DFIs and governments, on the economic impact of policy, climate risk and the structuring of funds. Prior to this she worked at Goldman Sachs as a Credit Risk Analyst.

Gaia has a Masters (First Class Hons) in Physics with Theoretical Physics from Imperial College London and a Graduate Diploma (Merit) in Economics from the London School of Economics.

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Geoffrey is the Head of Fund Operations and oversees portfolio management across the firm’s Asset Management business. In this role, Geoffrey is responsible for the smooth operations of all the middle and back office activities.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Geoffrey worked at Old Mutual Securities, an affiliate company of UAP Old Mutual Group, as a Regional Equities Trader covering East Africa, having transitioned from a previous role as an investment analyst. He also worked with the wider Group (Old Mutual Kenya) in the financial management and reporting unit.

Geoffrey graduated from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Finance) and is currently pursuing his MBA studies at the United States International University – Africa. He is also a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya.

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Githiora joined Lion’s Head as a Director in Investment Banking in 2020. He is based in the London office.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Githiora worked across East and Southern Africa at Allan Gray - Africa’s largest privately-owned investment manager with assets under management and administration of $50 billion. At Allan Gray, Githiora conducted investment analysis covering Kenya’s banking sector and supported the firm with its expansion strategy in Nigeria and in the Kingdom of eSwatini. Most recently, as a team of three, Githiora helped set up Allan Gray’s office in Kenya where he led the firm’s business development activities targeting pension funds, insurance companies and commercial banks.

Githiora earned a Master of Finance degree from the University of Cambridge and a B.S. in applied mathematics from Brown University where he was a Shoman Scholar. Githiora is a 2010 graduate of the African Leadership Academy.

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Gizem joined Lion's Head in 2019 and is based in London. At Lion’s Head Gizem is focused on Francophone Africa and primarily supports the Advisory Team.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Gizem was a management consultant for Chappuis Halder & Co, a consultancy specialising in financial services in London. Her projects included working on the merger of two brokerage firms, where she, among others, led financial statement analysis to identify synergies between the two companies. This work was accompanied by an operational due diligence, which required a deep understanding of the firms’ businesses, processes and tools. Gizem also supported operational transformation projects such as the implementation of regulatory frameworks (e.g MIFID2 and PRIIPs) and the digitalisation of a trading desk.

Gizem holds a MSc in Development Economics from SOAS and a BSc in Management from HEC Lausanne.

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Harry joined Lion’s Head in 2012. He provides investment expertise and strategic advice looking to develop innovative financing strategies, with a focus on renewable energy and financial inclusion.

Harry is the lead investment manager for the Off-Grid Energy Access Fund (OGEF), which is deploying local currency debt to support household energy access companies across Africa.

Harry was an International Fellow at Columbia University in New York where he completed a Masters degree focused on international energy finance and policy.

Through that programme, Harry advised UNEP on clean energy access and enterprise development in Haiti and a range of energy access, and financial inclusion impact investors.

Previously, Harry worked in microfinance investment with Developing World Markets and spent two years structuring municipal sustainable energy projects in the Clinton Climate Initiative’s London team Harry has a BA in Linguistics from Yale University.

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Harsha joined Lion's Head in 2019 to support the African Local Currency Bond Fund, based in Nairobi.

Harsha's primary responsibilities include originating and executing transactions in East Africa. His work spans the infrastructure, financial services, housing, agriculture, and energy sectors.

Previously, Harsha worked for the Development Credit Authority at USAID, where he structured credit guarantees across East Africa. Harsha began his career at a San Francisco-based hedge fund, focused on US public equity, and has also consulted for impact investors, microfinance institutions, and agricultural cooperatives in both India and Latin America. He holds a Master's in International Business from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a dual Bachelor’s degree in Economics and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College.  

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Ighosime joined Lion’s Head in 2018. He is based in the Lagos office, where he is focused on helping to grow the West Africa advisory business.

He has worked predominantly in Africa across several sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, agriculture, consumer goods, industrials and education. Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Ighosime worked on capital raising, strategy, and investor relations at African Leadership University (Mauritius), a disruptive educational start-up.

Before this, he was in the advisory business of Chapel Hill Denham, a leading Nigerian investment bank, where he advised large Nigerian corporates, state governments, and international investors across capital markets and M&A. He has led projects in Anglophone and Francophone West Africa and has been commended by the Nigerian SEC for his contributions to capital markets development in the country.

Ighosime holds a Bachelors in Business Administration from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.

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Jacquiline provides back-office support to and conducts portfolio analysis for the African Local Currency Bond Fund (www.alcbfund.com).

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Jacquiline worked at Horizon Africa Capital, a boutique financial advisory firm as an Accountant. She also worked with one of Horizon’s affiliates (Mawji Sennik LLP), an audit firm, as a Consulting Accountant.

Jacquiline holds a Master of Science degree in Finance from the University of Nairobi and a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Finance from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. She is also a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya.

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Jakub joined Lion’s Head in January 2020 and has over 13 years of experience in structured finance and capital markets in Central & Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Jakub spent 9 years at Goldman Sachs in London advising corporates, governments and financial institutions on bespoke financing solutions in private and public markets. More recently, Jakub was a Senior Vice President and head of structuring for a private financial institution in Abu Dhabi.

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James Doree joined Lion’s Head in 2011, and has worked with the founding Partners to build investment banking and asset management activities across Africa and Frontier Markets. He now leads Corporate and Investment Banking, covering sectors such as power, infrastructure, affordable housing, industry and financial inclusion. As part of Lion’s Head’s work in African capital markets, James has responsibility for managing the African Local Currency Bond Fund (www.alcbfund.com).  

In addition to his work in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, James has advised European utilities, governments and regulators on corporate and regulatory finance issues, covering energy, rail and postal sectors. James was previously a Senior Consultant at Cambridge Economic Policy Associates and, prior to that, worked for Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Nairobi.He has a Masters in Development Economics and a first class MA in History and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford.

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Jasper joined Lion’s Head in 2018 after having worked in public sector management consultancy in the Nordics, central Europe and the Middle East as well as in international development consultancy focusing on impact investment and climate finance.

Prior to this, he gained experience in managing bilateral aid programmes focussing on market system development and job creation in Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Jasper holds a MPhil in International Development from the University of Cambridge as well as an MSc and BSc in International Business and Politics from Copenhagen Business School.

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Josh is a Director at Lion’s Head, focusing on impact investment for healthcare in Africa, with previous experience of working with global health international organisations and the private sector.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Josh worked in monitoring and evaluation at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva, Switzerland. He focused on improving the use and quality of immunisation data for achieving public health targets across a broad portfolio of countries. Previously, Josh worked at GSK, where he contributed to the company’s enterprise-wide access to medicine strategy.

Josh holds a BSc in Politics and International Relations from the University of Bath.

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Kelvin is a  Director at Lion’s Head based in the Nairobi office.  

Kelvin has experience in external audits, internal controls review and financial  reporting. Prior to Lion’s Head, Kelvin was a Senior Auditor with KPMG Kenya in the Audit and Risk department, where he was responsible for training and leading audit teams in the planning, execution and reporting on financial statements audits and agreed upon procedures review, where he gained significant experience in providing assurance & non-assurance services to diverse portfolio of clients ranging from the Financial services sector,Oil & Gas and Consumer & Industrial Markets industry.

Leann Tchaikovsky joined Lion’s Head in 2019. She acts as Senior Investment Officer to the Facility for Energy Inclusion (www.feiafrica.com).

In this capacity, Leann designs and executes debt financing solutions for mid-size (<25MW) African renewable energy projects, companies, and asset portfolios.

Prior to joining the FEI team, Leann spent over a decade funding power and other infrastructure projects in Africa and other emerging markets. Most notably, she spent 8 years as part of Standard Chartered’s Project and Export Finance team and 2 years as part of Africa Finance Corporation’s Investments team. In other parts of her career, Leann advised governments on PPPs and other infrastructure related matters. She also briefly worked with Merrill Lynch’s investment banking team.

Leann holds an M.B.A from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, an M.P.P from the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy, and a B.S. / B.A. from Stanford University.

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Leon joined Lion’s Head in 2015. He focuses on capital markets, and financing for utilities and infrastructure.

Prior to Lion’s Head, Leon was an economist at the Institute of Economic Affairs-Kenya, where he carried out research on international trade issues like the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), the EAC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement, and the Tri-Partite Free Trade Agreement.

Leon has also previously worked at a Swiss NGO focusing on trade, and at a Pan-African online news company based in Washington, DC.

Leon holds a BA degree in Economics and International Relations from Colgate University.

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Leonard has valuable experience in sourcing, structuring and financing of transactions across Sub-Saharan Africa.

He was previously Investment Manager and Executive Assistant to the Chairman of an investment company in Kenya where he was involved in various projects including; power projects in Tanzania and Nigeria, agribusiness across multiple countries in Sub Saharan Africa, oil & gas services in Nigeria, telecoms in Nigeria, real estate and financial services in Kenya.

In 2007, Leonard joined Cable & Wireless in the Cayman Islands. Prior to that, he was an associate with a boutique Venture Capital firm in Minneapolis where he was involved in the commercialization of a renewable energy project as well as building a business plan for a medical device and diagnostic start-up.

Leonard graduated from United States International University, Nairobi with a BSc. in International Business and holds an MBA from Carlson School of Management in Minnesota, USA. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

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Makhtar joined Lion’s Head in 2017 and focuses primarily on francophone Africa, including supporting the African Local Currency Bond Fund.

He also offers expertise in advisory areas concerning especially to financial and capital markets, or economics related. Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Makhtar was a Financial Analyst at UMOA-Titres, the West African regional agency, in the issuance and management of sovereign bonds in the West African Monetary Union.

He has also worked as an Assistant Economist at the African Development Bank. Makhtar holds a Bachelor in Economics and Management and a Masters in Economics and Financial Engineering from the University of Rennes 1.

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Martin joined Lion’s Head in January 2020 to build the firm’s presence in the Middle East.

Prior to Lion’s Head, Martin spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs, initially in London and more recently in Dubai, running the firm’s financing business in the Middle East as well as the Sovereign and Supranational business in the EMEA region. Martin has developed a wide-ranging experience across high grade and emerging markets as well as in multiple product areas from plain vanilla debt instruments to structured financing, derivatives, commodity financing and ratings advisory.

Martin holds a BA (Hons) & MA (Cantab) in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

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Mary is a part of Lion’s Head Finance team, focused on internal controls.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Mary was an external auditor at KPMG Kenya where she carried out financial statement audits and assurance engagements across a variety of clients within different industries.

Mary holds a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of Cape Town and a BSc degree in Actuarial Science from the University of Nairobi. She is also holds an accounting qualification.

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Maxime joined Lion’s Head as an Executive Director in 2019 bringing more than 12 years of experience in originating, designing and executing financing solutions for the infrastructure and energy sectors in emerging markets.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Maxime was a Senior Vice President at Fieldstone Private Capital Group where he advised on transactions in the energy sector in Africa. Prior to Fieldstone Maxime was an Investment Manager at John Laing Investments. Throughout his experience Maxime developed effective relationships with leading firms and investors within the energy sector.

At Lion’s Head, Maxime is advising on a wide range of infrastructure and energy projects and with a focus that remains on renewable energies and Francophone Africa.

Maxime holds a Master in Financial Engineering from the Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University and a Bachelor in Business Administration from the Neoma Business School.

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Meghana is an Investment Officer at the Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI). Meghana has over 8 years' experience in developing, executing, structuring, and managing power and infrastructure projects, particularly in Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the FEI team, she was an Assistant Vice President at Zarou, a Blackstone portfolio company, set up to develop, own, and operate power and renewable energy, water and mid stream projects in the Middle East and North Africa.

Previously, Meghana was an Investment Executive at the CDC Group where she notably helped set up Ayana, the South Asian renewables platform, worked on the power JV with AKFED/IPS, and was seconded to AKFED/IPS in Kenya.

Earlier in her career, Meghana worked in the Royal Bank of Canada’s utilities and infrastructure investment banking team. She has an MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi’s Shri Ram College of Commerce.

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Melissa joined Lion’s Head as a director in 2019. She is based in the New York office.  

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Melissa worked for Soros Fund Management, the family office of George Soros for six years. While there, she worked in the Global Policy Development team, where she advised the principals of the Fund on policy projects and mission-related investments.

Prior to working at Soros Fund Management, Melissa worked in the Africa Regional Office of the Open Society Foundations, where she supported grantees working on business and human rights, good governance and government transparency. Melissa also did research at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Melissa serves on the board of Emerging Public Leaders, a fellowship program that places young professionals in the civil service in Liberia and Ghana. Melissa has a BA in Global Studies from The New School. She was born in Burundi and grew up in New York and Quebec. She speaks French and Kirundi fluently.

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‍Merveille joined Lion’s Head in 2020 as an Executive Director working primarily on the African Local Currency Bond Fund (www.alcbfund.com).

She provides expertise in Portfolio Management and Research in African markets. Before joining Lion’s Head, Merveille was a Fixed Income investment analyst at JPMorgan Asset Management. She covered the Developed Markets and the Emerging Markets strategies there. Merveille also worked at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Fixed Income portfolio analyst.

Merveille has an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and an MSc in Quantitative Finance from Institut Superieur de Commerce de  Paris.

Nick joined Lion's Head in April 2018. At Lion’s Head Nick is focused on Lusophone Africa and primarily supports Advisory work in Energy & Power.

Prior to this, he spent time working at Edgebold Capital, a private investment group based in London, with a focus on Southern Africa where he worked on a number of investments in the mining, transport & logistics and real estate sectors.

Nick worked to develop a group wide strategy building a vertically integrated value chain across the group's portfolio companies, including the development of a trade finance strategy suited to the local economies and entry into the physical trading of certain key commodities. Other work included advising a number of client's on various stages of their investments into the region.

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Olamide joined Lion’s Head in 2017 and is a member of the African Local Currency Bond Fund team, focussed on transaction origination and execution in West Africa.

Before joining Lion’s Head, Olamide worked in the investment team at Synergy Capital, a private equity fund providing growth capital to SME companies operating in Nigeria and Ghana. Olamide’s experience in Nigeria also includes consulting projects for State Governments and Government sponsored institutions.

Prior to this, he worked at Moelis & Company, advising UK and European funds and corporates on debt restructuring and recapitalisation transactions.

Olamide is based in Lagos, Nigeria, is a CFA charterholder and holds a BA in Classics from Balliol College, Oxford.

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Olamipo joined Lion’s Head in 2019 . She is based in Lagos, where she is responsible for executing investments by the FEI Off-Grid Energy Access Fund, and the African Local Currency Bond Fund.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Olamipo worked at Renaissance Capital, a Frontier and Emerging Market focused investment bank. While there, she was the Lead Financial Institutions Equity Research Analyst, responsible for covering 17 banks spanning Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Rwanda. Olamipo developed a thorough understanding of the financial services sector, and facilitated investments in capital markets across Africa.

Prior to Renaissance Capital, she worked at Vetiva Capital Management. Olamipo holds a BSc Economics from the University of Warwick.

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Orli joined Lion’s Head in January 2020, as the Managing Director of the Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI). Orli has 25 years of experience in various roles, mainly in development finance, project and structured finance and impact investing within funds, financial institutions, and advisory firms.

Orli has been advising a number of leading institutions (WBG, UN ECA, DFID) on private sector investments in infrastructure, mainly energy, in Africa. Over the past 15 years Orli has led and/or was involved in funding more than 70 assets in Emerging Markets, over USD 1.2 billion of principal investments across 26 countries and 7 sectors; of which over 50 were in Africa (circa USD 1 billion). Her previous roles, among others, were Director of Investments of the Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) and the MD of the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund (EAIF).

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Pablo joined Lion's Head in 2019 and is based in London. At Lion’s Head Pablo is focused on Lusophone Africa and primarily supports Advisory work.

Prior to this, he spent time working as a Financial Analyst at the investment banking department at Banco Economico, a bank based in Luanda, where he worked on a number of investments in agriculture, mining and construction sectors. Other work included advising client's on numerous phases of their investments into the country. He subsequently worked as a Debt Capital Markets Analyst for the same institution.

Pablo holds a BSc. in Economics from the University of Nottingham and two MSc., one in Finance and another in International Business from HULT International Business School.

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Before joining Lion’s Head, Philgonah was a finance assistant at Davis & Shirtliff  where she was in the accounts department and responsible for providing financial information to management by researching and analysing accounting data and preparing reports for decision making.

Philgonah holds a BSc. degree in Actuarial Science from Moi University and certifications from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) UK in Financial Mathematics and Life Contingencies. She is currently pursuing an MSc. Mathematical Finance at the Strathmore Institute of Mathematics. Philgonah is a Certified Public Accountant.

Rebecca is an Executive Assistant based in the London Office.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head Rebecca worked for fifteen years for a Partner both privately and within a London Private Equity firm.  She also worked for a London Hedge Fund as Office Manager. Previously, Rebecca worked as Assistant to the CFO of a London Private Equity firm and as Assistant to the CEO of a global hotel company.

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Sajan is an investment associate at Lion's Head.

Sajan is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder and is supporting the Facility for Energy Inclusion, focusing on investments into renewable energy projects and companies providing alternative energy solutions below 25 MW across Africa. Prior to this, Sajan was employed at Grant Thornton Consulting Limited, Kenya within the Corporate and Project Finance Advisory department focusing on mergers and acquisitions across various economic sectors as well as several renewable energy and infrastructure projects.

Teresa joined Lion’s Head in 2019 as Senior Legal Counsel and works across the asset management and advisory practices.

Before joining Lion’s Head, Teresa worked in-house for the Econet Global group, a pan-Africa telco, as group legal advisor for corporate finance.

Prior to this, she has worked as Legal Director at Clyde & Co Tanzania, at CA Legal/MDY and White & Case LLP in London, specialising in finance and development finance mechanisms.

Teresa is based in Nairobi, Kenya and is a Solicitor of England & Wales and an Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania.  She holds a BA in Classics from Merton College, Oxford and a PgDL/LPC from City University/Inns of Court School of Law.

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Thibault is an Investment Officer at the Facility for Energy Inclusion (FEI). Thibault has over 8 years of experience in the origination, development and structuring of transactions in the energy and infrastructure industry. Prior to joining FEI, Thibault worked for a family office investing in Oil & Gas opportunities, and previously was involved in the development of LNG-to-power projects.

Earlier in his career, Thibault worked within the Bolloré Group, to structure infrastructure development under PPP scheme in Africa and emerging countries. Thibault is a graduate in Corporate Finance from Rennes School of Business and holds a Master’s degree in Management.

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Victoria joined as an Managing Director at Lion’s Head in 2018, bringing extensive experience in the design and execution of financing solutions in emerging markets, with a focus on the sustainable development of low income countries.

Prior to working with LHGP, Victoria was a Senior Technical Advisor for Health Insurance at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, where she was responsible for overseeing CHAI’s support to the Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency, introducing major reforms to the health financing landscape in Ethiopia.

Prior to that, she served as Health Economist within the UK government focusing on the financing of the hospital sector within the NHS, and in academia at LSE Health, where she co-authored a major WHO-published report into diagnostics for infectious disease.

Before specialising in the health sector, Victoria spent a decade in investment banking at Barclays, Citigroup and UBS, in senior positions providing advisory and execution services to institutional investors in emerging and frontier equity markets, with particular expertise in South Africa, Russia, and the Middle East.

Victoria holds an MSc in Health Policy from the LSE, and a BEconSc in Economics from the University of Manchester.

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Will joined Lion’s Head as an Associate in December 2019. At Lion’s Head, Will is focused on supporting Advisory work in health and agriculture.

Prior to joining, Will worked with Ipsos Mori Healthcare Custom, a market research company that collects data on the perceptions of novel and existing disease treatments. During this, Will assessed new HIV treatments to be implemented in Sub-Saharan Africa and studied the perceptions of Pneumonia in Europe. Will also spent a short time as a Medical Reporter for Cogora Healthcare.

Will holds a BSc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Bristol and an MRes. in Molecular Plant and Microbial Sciences from Imperial College London.

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Winnie manages the ALCB fund Technical Assistance Facility. Her core expertise is in impact investment and innovative financing transaction facilitation, and corporate finance transaction structuring.

Prior to joining Lion’s Head, Winnie worked as a financial analyst at Dalberg Capital (D.Capital Partners), an impact investing advisory firm that facilitates investments that catalyse economic and social change. At Dalberg Capital (D.Capital Partners), she was involved in facilitating investments and structuring innovative financing solutions in various sectors including agriculture, health care and education.

She also has previous work experience as a corporate finance analyst with I&M Burbidge Capital, a corporate finance advisory firm based in East Africa that specializes in advising businesses in the region on capital raising transactions.

Winnie holds a Bachelor of commerce degree in Finance from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, and is a Certified Investments and Financial Analyst (CIFA – K).

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