Yemi Ajao

Mr. Ajao is an experienced Investment Executive with over 20 years of work experience spanning Oil & Gas, Financial Services, Technology and Commercial Real Estate.

Previously, he worked as the Business Development and New Ventures Director at CAMAC International, a Texas based Family Office with a focus on Africa. Prior to that, he led the commercial workstream for Afren/FHN’s acquisition of OML 26 from Shell/NNPC JV and the first locally arranged Reserved Based Lending (RBL) in Nigeria, for the acquisition and re-development of OML 26.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Ajao worked as a Drilling Engineer and in the early days of shale, planned and designed wells for E&P clients in the Barnette Shale, Texas. Altogether, Mr. Ajao spent over a decade in the oil industry, in Engineering, Corporate Finance and Commercial Strategy roles. Since 2013, he has also been an avid supporter of the early-stage technology ecosystem in Nigeria and an adviser to quite a number of early-stage ventures in Nigeria and Kenya.

Yemi holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, a Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Houston and a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Jones Graduate School of Business, at Rice University, Houston TX.