John Opubor

Managing Partner

John has enjoyed a 20-year career as a principal investor and investment banker in developed, emerging and frontier markets.
 
At Coronation Capital, he leads deal sourcing and deal execution across Financial Services, Technology and Consumer Goods & Services. He has acted as a principal or advisor on a broad array of transactions in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. As a principal investor he has deployed capital and exited deals in both early stage and growth stage businesses within the retail, media, consumer, manufacturing and financial services sectors in Africa and North America.
 
During his investment banking (M&A) career, he advised clients on announced transactions in excess of USD 50 billion within the industrials, telecom, retail & consumer and healthcare sectors, amongst others. John previously held senior positions at Actis in Lagos, Nigeria and Credit Suisse in New York. Earlier in his career he held roles of increasing responsibility at Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and Provender Capital Group.
 
He earned a BA in Economics from Columbia University and currently serves as the President of the Columbia University Club of Nigeria.
 

Tope Adegun

Director

Tope as an Investment Director at Coronation Capital is responsible for Private Equity investments in West Africa.  He has 17 years of Principal Investment and Corporate Finance experience, most recently at 8 Miles LLP where he executed private equity investments and drove value creation initiatives at portfolio companies across West and East Africa over a 7-year period. He also represented 8 Miles on the Boards of portfolio companies.

Prior to that, Tope worked in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch in New York, executing over US$ 30b in M&A, capital raise and restructuring transactions, as well as at Religare Capital Markets in London where he focused on Equity Capital Market transactions in Asia and Africa.  He previously covered European Telecoms as an Equity Research Analyst at Morgan Stanley in London and had started his career as an Auditor at KPMG in Lagos, Nigeria. 

He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management (USA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria) where he was a Shell National Merit Scholar.

 

Abeeb Adebayo

Associate

Abeeb is an investment professional with over 5 years of experience in investment banking and financial services. His role includes performing research, evaluating businesses, financial modelling, company valuation, deal structuring, driving due diligence and portfolio management.
 
Prior to joining Coronation Capital, Abeeb worked as a Senior Analyst within the investment banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, London where he advised clients in the Financial Services industry across Europe, Middle East and Africa. His work experience also includes off cycle internships at Consolidated Discounts Limited, Lagos and Kakawa Discount House Limited, Lagos.
 
He earned a BSc. in Accounting from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria and holds a Certificate in Securities and Derivatives from the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments (CISI) UK. He is also an alumnus of SEO London class of 2014.

Molade Elodimuor

Analyst

Molade is an investment professional with a diverse and complementary background that spans investment research, investment advisory, consulting and business strategy within emerging and frontier markets over the past 7 years.At Coronation Capital she is a member of the deal team responsible for investment analysis and due diligence, business valuation and reporting, as well as investor relations.
 
Before joining Coronation, she was responsible for capital raising and loan restructuring at Dangote Industries where she helped to develop a plan to restructure existing loan facilities and secure $2 billion in new financing.Prior to Dangote, she was the Country Representative (Nigeria) for Cape Town-headquartered RisCura, where she performed independent valuations of portfolio companies and fund managers, buy-side due diligence engagements, financial risk management consulting and pension advisory services.
 
She is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified accountants (ACCA) and holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. In addition, she is currently a Level II candidate of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.
 

Ukamaka Okoli

Legal and Compliance Manager

Amaka is a legal practitioner with about a decade of experience advising private equity funds, fund managers, global banks, multinational corporates, and parastatals. At Coronation Capital, she provides legal support to the investment team and oversees the compliance and regulatory function associated with transactions and the firm’s operations.

She has spent her career at law firms, most recently G. Elias & Co., one of Nigeria’s foremost business law firms, where she advised her clients on corporate, capital markets (debt and equity) and finance transactions across all sectors of the Nigerian economy. As a senior associate, her expertise was corporate law and finance including mergers and acquisition and private equity, financing, restructurings and insolvencies and legal “due diligence”. She has written articles in and contributed to legal journals and other publications.

An alumnus of International Lawyers for Africa (ILFA), she holds an LL.B from the Rivers State University of Science & Technology. She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), NBA Section on Business Law and the Capital Markets Solicitors Association.
 

Franklin Ajaegbu

Financial Controller

Franklin is a Chartered Accountant and finance professional with over 6 years of experience in consulting, audit and assurance services. Prior to joining Coronation Capital, he was a Senior Associate in the financial services unit (Audit division) of KPMG Professional Services Ltd. (Nigeria) where he worked as a team lead and senior team member on various audit engagements which covered commercial banking, investment banking, pension funds and fund managers, capital markets, insurance companies and property/real estate companies. His area of expertise includes financial reporting and analysis, audit and assurance, internal controls, corporate finance, financial management, International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and private equity accounting.
 
He is an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and has a BSc in Accounting from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). He is currently a Level III candidate of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) program.

Equi Nwabudike

HSE and Admin Executive

Equi is an Administrative, Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) professional with over 7 years of experience in safety & health management, industrial hygiene, safety inspections, accident investigation and compliance.

Prior to joining Coronation Capital, Equi served as the Health and Safety risk manager for Boyson Nigeria Ltd. where she had a track record of strong performance.

As the Admin Executive at Coronation Capital, she leverages on her experience in office management to ensure the efficient operations of the company’s facilities while assisting in the implementation of HSE and HR practices, policies and procedures.

Equi holds a BSc. in Biomedicine (Human Health) from the Brunel University, London and MSc. in Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management from the University of Lagos. She is certified in NEBOSH Occupational Health and Safety, HSE 123, Fire Safety & Risk Assessment and Environmental Awareness by the British International Safety Organization and Department of Petroleum Resources. In addition, she is an Associate Member of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Pollution Management, SETPOM.