Taolo Modisi

Founding Partner at Alpha Reign

Speaker

Taolo is a purpose and impact driven individual that has significant of experience in financial services. She is currently a Founding Partner of Alpha Reign an impact, investment firm that focuses on private debt solutions for small and medium enterprises in Southern Africa. Ms. Modisi also serves as a Non-Executive Director to financial institutions, including Botswana Insurance Fund Managers (Bifm), a subsidiary of the SanlamAllianz Group (the largest non-banking financial group in Africa). Bifm is the oldest and largest asset management in Botswana with an excess of over USD 2,5 billion under management. Prior to this Taolo Headed up Debt Capital Markets for Southern and Central Africa at Standard Bank Group in Johannesburg, which included several different countries across sub-Saharan African. Ms. Modisi also worked for Investec Bank in Johannesburg, as a Senior Consultant in the Specialised Finance team covering lending opportunities across the African continent.

Taolo has served as a consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA), advising on Pension Fund Reforms in Africa. She has significant experience in Debt Capital Markets, Private Debt, Investment Banking, Lending, and Treasury. Ms. Modisi has placed over USD 12 billion of issues and advised various Sovereigns, Central Banks, Multinationals, State-Owned Entities, Banks and Corporates. Taolo is also the Founding Trustee for the Gaositwe Chiepe Trust; a Trust formed in the name of her grandmother, who was the first female Cabinet Minister in Botswana. The trust supports on children with learning disabilities.

Ms. Modisi has led Senior and Mezzanine Debt opportunities encompassing Corporate Lending, Leveraged Buyouts, Expansion Finance and Real Estate Finance. Her transactions have received awards from the likes of EMEA Finance Magazine, The Credit Magazine and The Banker. Taolo, was also part of a team that had been consistently ranked number one on the Bloomberg sub-Saharan Africa Bonds League Tables.

Ms. Modisi has led teams of professionals in her banking career and continues to do so in her roles as a Non-Executive Director, Committee Member, Trustee and including in her Advisory and Consultancy Roles. Taolo has originated several firsts in various countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including the first commodity-linked note in sub-Saharan Africa, the first issues for governments, corporates, commercial paper, including credit-linked programmes in a number of jurisdictions across the continent. Taolo’s successes in originating and placing issues in sub-Saharan Africa reign from her passion in creating impact through developing investment solutions in Private Capital and Capital Markets.

Taolo has lived in 6 different countries, 3 of which are in Southern Africa and the rest in Europe and North America. Taolo completed a 13 month-long Leadership Program with Stanford University Graduate School of Business, under Stanford Seed that enrolls the most promising Business Leaders in established businesses in African and South Asia. Taolo has a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. She has also taken courses at Columbia University, New York University and Franklin University in Lugano, Switzerland.