Paul Okunaiya

An Investment Professional, with vast entrepreneurial mindset, extensive leadership experience and engagements spanning corporate & structured finance, banking & private credit, and private equity investment.
I have raised and invested over $800Million. I was a Senior Investment Professional with AfricInvest, a PE Firm with AUM > $2Billion. I looked after investments and investee companies across Anglophone SSA and a apart of the founding team of AfricInvest’s Venture Capital / Innovation Fund and helped deliver the firms’ VC strategy.

Also, I was the Chief Investment Officer at Platform Capital, a principal and fund of funds investment firm where I led the firm’s Investments across Africa, Mexico, and in the United States investing and managing a portfolio of over $100Million.

I was appointed as the Group Investment Officer of NGX Group Plc (the Nigeria Stock Exchange – Africa’s premier and leading integrated financial market infrastructure) where I delivered the NGX Group Investment Strategy and Policy Document and established a robust Investor Relation programme of the NGX Group. In addition, I established funding lines from international funding institutions and maximized the value of the Group’s asset portfolio including investing in vertically integrated and as well unrelated entities.
I am a Mentor and Judge at Jack Ma Foundation’s flagship philanthropic program in Africa, the Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH), the Google for Startup and Top Tier Impact (TTI) Group.

It is always a delight helping entrepreneurs grow and scale. I have done this for almost a decade.

I raise expansion and growth capital (debt and Equity) for Growth and Mature companies. As an Experience Investor and Board member, I do advise on Corporate Governance and function as Board Adviser. Happy to support more companies as Mentor.