Henshaw Capital Partners | HENSHAW FACULTY

Martin Poulsen
Former Head of Private Equity, African Development Bank. Co- Head Moringa Fund (Compaigne Benjamin De Rothschild) a $100 million Agro-Forestry Fund for Africa and Latin America.

Ngozi Bell
Office of Advocacy US Small Business Administration. Former Vice President, Birchmere Ventures Pittsburgh Pa. an early stage Venture Capital firm with emphasis on Cleantech, Medical / Life sciences and Technology with $160M under management with responsibility for fundraising, deal sourcing and analysis, portfolio management.

Titi Lawani
GM, ProgressTrust Closed Pension Fund Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria as well as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators England. She trained with Deloitte Haskins and Sells before joining Nigerian Breweries in 1985 as a manager. She commenced managing the company’s Pension and Gratuity Funds in December 1999 and is currently the General Manager of the Closed Pension Fund Administrator (PTL CPFA Ltd).

Danladi Verheijen
Managing Director of Verod Capital. Former Vice President at Citibank Nigeria where he led corporate finance and investment banking transactions and also had responsibility over Citibank’s equity investment portfolio. Prior to that, he held roles at Ocean and Oil Holdings and at McKinsey & Company. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.Sc. in Engineering Economic Systems & Operations Research from Stanford University and a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Calvin College. He is a Director of GZ Industries, Spinlet, Rotoprint, Howard Roark, Eko Rail and Royal Exchange Finance & Investments Company.

Obasola Dele-Oni
Grofin SME Fund, Venture Capital Fund Managers

Barbara James
Founder and CEO, Henshaw Capital Partners. Former MD, African Venture Capital Association.