Irede Ajala

Irede Ajala is the Managing Partner at DMCB Global- A Financial Advisory and Principal Investment Company that works as a trusted partner and advisor to global investors and philanthropists looking to build high growth businesses in Africa. He has overseen DMCB GLOBAL’s nascence and growth since 2014 with his vast experience in debt capital markets, public sector advisory, and financial advisory built over twelve years in Nigeria, Netherlands and the United Kingdom. In the last five years, Irede has actively been responsible for attracting close to $300 Million dollars of impact investment in Africa. Some of his experience includes shareholder representation on FAFIN- a $75 Million Dollar Private Equity Fund for Agricultural Finance in Nigeria. He has consulted for International Organisations such as DFID, DAI, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and to Synergos in A role that saw him serve as the Senior Technical Adviser (Investments, Agribusiness and Donor Funding) to the Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nigeria. Irede has attended Harvard Kennedy School, Oxford Said’s Business School, and Erasmus University Rotterdam with a brilliant academic record.