Experience across investment, private sector development, and impact
Selected assignments from our senior team's work with investors, financial institutions, businesses, and implementing agencies across Africa. They illustrate how we approach investment preparation, program delivery, business performance, research, and capacity building.
Preparing a food and agriculture investment program for institutional capital
Supported the preparation of a program involving several sponsors, developing investment cases, the financing plan, and sponsor engagement. The program attracted $2.2 billion in announced commitments.
Enterprise and supplier development around major investments
Designed and managed technical assistance linked to major investments, covering local supplier development, enterprise support, value chains, and institutional capacity. The work helped connect investment activity with opportunities for local businesses.
Rebuilding distribution and commercial performance
Worked with an agri-commodity group to redesign its route to market, improve channel structure, and strengthen distributor coverage. Channel coverage increased by 40 percent while costs remained broadly unchanged, reversing several quarters of declining market share.
Defining priorities for regional digital investment
Mapped digital investment needs across four markets to inform priorities for a regional program, covering infrastructure and skills.
Developing the foundations for interoperable payments
Assessed payments interoperability and merchant acceptance, examining the institutions, infrastructure, and commercial conditions needed to expand digital payments. The work informed a $485 million operation and helped bring seven banks together in a national interbank payments group.
Understanding the outcomes of intermediated SME finance
Co-led an assessment of SME lending delivered through participating financial institutions, combining portfolio monitoring, beneficiary surveys, and qualitative research. The work examined business outcomes, including employment and revenue growth, alongside the program's reach across regions and borrower groups.
Connecting local skills and enterprises to infrastructure investment
Assessed skills needs with construction companies and vocational institutions, then designed a program covering training, trainer certification, and SME participation. Developed delivery partnerships to help local contractors and workers participate in the opportunities created by a major highway investment.
Advancing a stalled fiber network toward operation
Supported project management of a priority fiber link within a sovereign-financed network, helping move a stalled program toward commercial operation.
Post-acquisition value creation for a payments business
Developed a value creation plan covering market expansion, product diversification, commercial partnerships, pricing, and the organizational changes needed for execution. The plan became the company's post-acquisition strategy.
Launching a digital banking unit and open banking marketplace
Led the growth strategy for a large African banking group, anchored on the launch of a digital banking unit and an open banking marketplace, and defined the value proposition, monetization model, and fintech partnership approach for the bank's new digital business.
Building credit and project finance capability
Delivered annual training cohorts over four years for development bank staff, from junior officers to managers. The program covered accounting, credit analysis, project appraisal, and the construction and interpretation of a complete project finance model.
Mobilizing private capital and climate finance in Central Africa
Led the private sector strategy of a national climate and development assessment, setting out how banks, investors, and public institutions could finance adaptation and green growth in a forest-rich, oil-dependent economy.
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