Executive Director, Entrepreneurial Capital · Alberta Innovates
Twenty years designing the machinery by which capital reaches its destination: investment processes, governance frameworks, credit guarantee architecture, and wrap-around ecosystems, built across the corridor between Nigerian capital markets and Canadian multilateral practice. An institutional operator for a moment that demands institutional operators.
Most senior finance executives can point to one. Some can point to two. A handful can point to three. What makes the work I do useful at institutional scale is the overlap: the four together.
Designs end-to-end investment machinery: origination, IC governance, credit appraisal, guarantee structures, portfolio monitoring, impact reporting. The system that lets capital deploy at scale and hold up under audit.
Nigerian institutional roots (NGX, Stanbic IBTC, Kedari, Santrust) paired with Canadian and multilateral fluency (Alberta Innovates, Canada Revenue Agency). A permanent optionality engine for LPs, deals, and partnerships that others must build from scratch.
Founder of three institutions, board chair of one of Canada's fastest-growing accelerators for underserved tech founders, committee-level board governance across multiple organizations. Understands the view from both sides of the term sheet.
Investment portfolio in clean resources, energy, and emerging technology. McGill-trained design thinker, Lean Stack-certified innovation mentor, co-founder of an award-winning AI platform. Innovation-native, on the capital side of the table.
From structuring cross-border M&A in Lagos to designing a $100M+ annual innovation-capital platform in Alberta. A single, deliberate arc of building the institutional infrastructure that capital moves through.
The work doesn't end at the deal desk. Founding institutions, chairing boards, and building the talent pipelines that future capital will move through.
Currently active across Canadian and African capital, innovation, and executive circles. Open to DFI and multilateral leadership, fund partnerships, senior C-suite mandates, and Pan-African innovation ecosystem roles where the mandate meets the scope of the capability.
Active across Canada, Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa