Wale Adeosun, CFA, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kuramo Capital Management (Kuramo). Kuramo is an independent private investment firm driving catalytic commercial capital to fast growing African businesses, to generate attractive returns and positively impact local communities. To date, Kuramo Capital has catalyzed over $3.5 billion to sub-Saharan African businesses. Kuramo, with offices in Lagos, Nairobi and New York, is the General Partner of the $500 million Kuramo Africa Opportunity Funds (KAOF) with commitments from leading US endowments, foundations and pension plans including the largest pension fund in Africa. Kuramo has direct and indirect investments in over 200 companies in 30 sub-Saharan Africa countries in various sectors. Wale serves on the Boards of several portfolio companies. He was the Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the $280 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund and in 2014, he was appointed to serve on President Obama’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA).