Sector Experience

Financial Services
Energy
Technology
8
hours

Avg Response Time

19
years

Years of Experience

12/13

Member Since


Experience

 
Gluon Finance
Partner
01/2017 - Present
Gluon is a private investment holding company with investments and activity in Africa and North America

Source, diligence, invest, and manage investments across a wide spectrum of industries that will play key roles in the world’s next wave of development.

Engineers Without Borders - Canada Finance
Managing Director - EWB Ventures
07/2015 - 06/2017
• Set up and led impact investment vehicle aimed at innovative early-stage social ventures in Africa
• Managed portfolio of 8 investments, sourced, and diligenced new ventures for investment
o Invested in 6 startups - ag, fintech, edtech, and housing; in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia
o Catalyzed follow-on fundraising worth ~6x EWB’s invested capital (and growing)
• EWB Ventures recognized as 2016 Impact Investor of the Year by MaRS Centre for Impact Investing

Global Environment Fund Finance
Vice President
05/2013 - 07/2015
GEF is a global private equity firm investing in the energy, environmental, and natural resources sectors with ~$1bn in AUM

GEF's Africa Growth Fund invests in clean energy (generation, transmission and distribution, efficiency, natural gas, etc.) and resource efficiency (water, waste, efficient logistics, agri-processing, etc.) businesses in Africa.

Accion Finance
Director, East Africa
06/2012 - 01/2013
Headed SSA VC efforts for Accion
• Sourced over 60 investment opportunities, conducted due diligence, modeled financials, prepared prescreens
and investment memoranda for internal team and investment committee review
• Established Accion and Venture Lab presence in East Africa, including setting up office in Nairobi, attending
conferences and developing contacts in East Africa region and, more broadly, throughout Sub-Saharan Africa

Open Capital Advisors Management Consulting
Fellow
05/2011 - 08/2011
Open Capital Advisors is a financial intermediary focused on supporting high-growth SMEs and interested investors in East
Africa; OCA provides investment banking, strategic consulting, and portfolio management services

Lehman Brothers Finance
Investment Banking Associate
03/2006 - 03/2008
GFA was the analytical arm of the investment bank dedicated to developing solutions for complex strategic/financing issues

Telemetry Investments Finance
Trader
08/2003 - 02/2006
Oversaw execution of primary quantitative trading strategy for a ~$150MM long/short portfolio.

Salomon Smith Barney Finance
Investment Banking Analyst
07/2000 - 06/2002
Quantitative investment banking analyst