Our Team

 

Olumide Ajayi, Principal PartnerAbout-Us

Olumide Ajayi – Olumide founded Amadeus Capital. Prior to Amadeus, Olumide worked as the CFO of one of the biggest Pension Schemes in Europe (£45 billion) leading the investment function on behalf of the Trustees and was also responsible for the fiscal management aspects of the operations. He began his career with MetLife and later Canada Life; in both cases within the asset management arm. He later moved on Solomon Brothers/Smith Barney in London in its Alternative Investment Group, and to Bank of New York Mellon and F&C Management in London in charge of the fund management division. Olumide has over 20 years of investment banking, asset management, advisory services and transaction experience. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting & Finance and an MBA from the Manchester Business School. He is also a Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants in UK.

Matthias Thomas, Partner

Matthias Thomas – Thomas has over 20 years of financial advisory, he was the Former Lead Credit Officer at the US Export-Import Bank and through his experience with US Ex-Im Bank he has a lot of contacts and relationships with US Oil and Gas companies that are interested in doing business in Africa. He has worked as the Vice President for the following banks – Sovereign, SunTrust & Regions specializing in Global trade finance solutions.

He is also the President & CEO IMEX Financing where he specializes in arranging international trade finance, administering Exim Bank programs, and providing other credit and financial services for international trade finance participants.

Matthias holds a first degree in Business Finance with a MBA from George Washington University.

Fred Liu, Partner

Fred Liu – over 10 years of experience in finance, 2 years for banking, 8 years for PE; Strong quantitative analysis skills; Good at structure design, evaluation assessment and business negotiation; Good command of project finance knowledge; Extensive experience on the green filed project and M&A opportunity in the sector of mineral, energy and infrastructure; Team worker with international vision and strong ability to deliver

Fred holds a first degree in Finance with a MBA from China.

Bankole Ige, Business Executive Director

Olaoluwa Fatoyinbo, Business Executive Director