Cyrille Nkontchou

Founder and Private Equity CIO at Enko Capital

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Cyrille is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Enko Capital, a leading Africa-focused asset management firm with offices across London, Johannesburg, Mauritius and West Africa. He manages the Enko Africa Private Equity Fund, a $65 million pan African private equity fund established in April 2014 for the purpose of investing in growth companies in Africa across a broad range of economic sectors. The fund made 7 successful investments over its 10-years life, spanning commercial and mortgage banking, microfinance, insurance, logistics, SaaS and telecommunications services. The successor fund EAPEF II of $150 million in size, will be focused on four themes i) financial services leveraging disruptive technologies, ii) food security and logistics, iii) energy access and telecommunications services iiii) higher education and human capital.

He also oversees Enko Capital Garanti, an innovative ECOWAS-focused fund that offers returns linked to stock market performance while protecting capital.

Cyrille is the Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Enko Education, a pan-African K-12 school network, and chairs strategic investments including RMG Concept, a €115 million agribusiness in West Africa. He serves on the boards of the International Baccalaureate Organisation and Atlantic Financial Group.

Previously, he founded LiquidAfrica Holdings Limited, a pan-African investment bank advising on over $750 million in debt and equity transactions, and was Head of Sub-Saharan Research at Merrill Lynch, recognized as one of the top analysts covering the region. He began his career at Andersen Consulting in Paris.

Cyrille holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Sciences Po Paris and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2006.