Partners

Thiaba Camara Sy

Thiaba is co-founder, chair of the board of directors and chair of the investment committee of WIC CAPITAL, the first impact fund dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs in West Africa. During a rich career spanning 33 years in auditing, accounting and management consulting,

Thiaba has served numerous public institutions and private companies in virtually every sector of the West African economy, which has enabled her to develop a strong international professional network over the years.

Njeri Wagacha

Njeri Wagacha is a Corporate & Commercial Partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital in that context, Employment Law and Competition Law. Njeri is the Co-Head of East Africa Industrials, Manufacturing & Trade sector.

Njeri started off as Trainee Solicitor at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (Europe) LLP. She later joined a firm in Nairobi as an Associate. She was a Secondee at Anjarwalla, Collins & Haidermota, Dubai. In 2018 she was appointed as a Senior Associate at the firm in Nairobi. In 2020, Njeri joined Kieti Advocates LLP as a Partner.

Paul Bleroff

Paul Breloff is the co-founder and CEO of Shortlist, a talent advisory firm offering executive search for leadership hiring at African startups and social enterprises scale their hiring, and driving workforce enablement programs to help young people access career on-ramps in climate, clean energy, and tech.

Prior to that, Paul worked with SKS Microfinance, India's largest microfinance institution, leading a team of 20 in Hyderabad on business development, product, and strategic partnerships. Paul has also advised CGAP, Root Capital, Shell Foundation, BRAC, and others on access-to-finance issues globally and practiced corporate law with Mayer Brown. He is also an active angel investor and one of the founding members of Nairobi Business Angels.

Hamdiya Ismaila

Hamdiya is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Savannah Impact Advisory who are managers of the Ci - Gaba Fund of Funds, the first private sector led fund of funds to be domiciled in Ghana and investing across the West African sub-region. She has over  23 years of experience in Finance and Investment with over 16 years’ experience in fund of  funds investing. She was the General Manager of Venture Capital Trust Fund (VCTF), a  Ghanaian based fund of funds vehicle established to support emerging managers investing across West Africa.

She has significant experience in Venture Capital/Private Equity (VC/PE) Fund  Structuring, fund investing, fund management and understands the entrepreneurial  ecosystem development issues firsthand.