Friday, 10 JULY | 1PM | Zoom Webinar
Black Women in Asset Management (BWAM) is pleased to host a panel event featuring black women investors who have founded investment funds.
These inspiring women will discuss:
Skills and resources required to launch a fund
Opportunities and challenges for black women investors in fundraising, deal-sourcing, investment decision-making and portfolio management
Gender-lens investment strategies
Impact of COVID-19 on the emerging market investment landscape
Panellists:
Berhane Demissie, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Cepheus Growth Capital Partners
Ms. Berhane Demissie, is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cepheus Growth Capital Partners, a private equity firm primarily focused on investments in Ethiopia across all sectors. Ms. Demissie has over 10 years of Private Equity experience in Ethiopia and has previously worked as corporate finance and risk management professional both in the UK and Ethiopia.
Charmaine Hayden, Senior Partner of Good Soil VC
Charmaine Hayden is a Founding Partner at Good Soil VC. She describes their fund as being dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in startups with high growth potential whose founders are women, people of colour, LGBT or otherwise disenfranchised.
'Tokunboh Ishmael, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Alitheia Capital
'Tokunboh Ishmael is an experienced private equity investor with a proven track record. She is MD and co-founder of Alitheia. In 2015, she co-founded Alitheia Identity to scale investing across Sub-Saharan women-led SMEs. She is a CFA Charterholder, corporate financier and M&A banker historically having worked on over $5.6 billion transactions across the US, UK and Africa.
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes, Founding Partner of Aruwa Capital Management
Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes is the Founder and Managing Partner of Aruwa Capital Management, one of the few woman owned and led private equity funds in Africa. Aruwa invests into untapped investment opportunities in West Africa in the small to lower mid-market.
Moderated by:
Alexandra Ekpiken, Vice President and General Counsel at Verod Capital
Alexandra Ekpiken is Vice President & General Counsel of Verod Capital and has over 20+ years advising fund managers on structuring and raising successful emerging market impact funds. Prior to that she began her career in New York and London advising on private equity investments for global institutional investors such as Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Merrill Lynch Asset Management.