Tosin Ojo

Position: Partner
Categories: Private Equity Team

Tosin heads the private equity team, at Sahel Capital. She has 18+ years, multi-sector experience in investment management, financial advisory, and impact investing across Africa. She has spent the last 5+ years focusing on the agribusiness sector at Sahel Capital, overseeing fund raising and launch of Sahel Capital’s successor $75m growth equity fund – Sahel Capital Agribusiness Fund II (SCAF II), deal origination and execution (with $50+ million in active deal pipeline) and has led the deployment of ~$20m in investments in the food and agribusiness sector in Nigeria. She’s also overseeing exits from the portfolio companies of Sahel Capital’s maiden private equity fund – Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria (FAFIN) and serves on the board of Dayntee Farms Limited. Tosin has also led the incubation, registration and launch of Sahel Agribusiness Private Debt Fund – a dedicated local currency debt fund investing in agribusiness SMEs in Nigeria. Prior to Sahel Capital she worked at CardinalStone, Chapel Hill Denham, Vetiva and Stanbic IBTC Bank.

Tosin is board director at Private Equity and Venture Capital Association of Nigeria (PEVCA), independent chair of the Mutual Funds Investment Commitee (MFIC) of ARM Investment managers overseeing ~$200m in publicly listed assets and the independent investment committee member of PV Capital – the investment arm of Piggytech Global, Nigeria’s leading savings and investment platform.

She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) charter-holder, holds a first-class bachelors’ degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria and an MBA from Said Business School – University of Oxford, UK.