Full Name
BOLAJI BALOGUN
Job Title
Chief Executive Officer
Company
Chapel Hill Denham
Speaker Bio
Bolaji is Chief Executive Officer of Chapel Hill Denham. Bolaji’s has over 35 years of experience in
investment banking, investing and mobile telecommunications. Chapel Hill Denham is Nigeria’s leading
investment bank and sustainable finance leader and the leading alternatives asset manager focused on
areas accretive to Nigeria and Africa’s development, namely Infrastructure, Renewables, Real Estate,
Venture, Gender & Youth.
Bolaji spent over ten years within FCMB Group, until January 2001, when he left to be a co-founder and
Director of Nigeria’s first Mobile Network, Econet Wireless Nigeria, now Airtel Nigeria. Bolaji led the
capital raising and license bid auction for Econet Wireless Nigeria’s mobile license. The US1.67 billion sale of Econet Wireless to Celtel in 2005, remains Nigeria’s single largest successfully exited private
investment. Bolaji left mobile telecommunications and founded Chapel Hill, in 2005.
Bolaji is a Board Member of the United Nations Global Compact. He is the Chairman of Unilever Nigeria
Plc and is Co-Chair of the Private Sector Advisory Group (“PSAG Nigeria”). He is the Chairman of Endeavor Nigeria and a Director of Trustfund Pensions, one of Nigeria’s largest pension fund managers. He was immediate past Chairman of Lafarge Africa Plc, Nahco FTZ Limited and a former Director of Nahco Aviance Plc and NASD Plc. He was appointed to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Africa Advisory Board in September 2009.
Bolaji is an Economics (Honours) graduate of the London School of Economics and is President of the LSE Nigeria Alumni Association.
investment banking, investing and mobile telecommunications. Chapel Hill Denham is Nigeria’s leading
investment bank and sustainable finance leader and the leading alternatives asset manager focused on
areas accretive to Nigeria and Africa’s development, namely Infrastructure, Renewables, Real Estate,
Venture, Gender & Youth.
Bolaji spent over ten years within FCMB Group, until January 2001, when he left to be a co-founder and
Director of Nigeria’s first Mobile Network, Econet Wireless Nigeria, now Airtel Nigeria. Bolaji led the
capital raising and license bid auction for Econet Wireless Nigeria’s mobile license. The US1.67 billion sale of Econet Wireless to Celtel in 2005, remains Nigeria’s single largest successfully exited private
investment. Bolaji left mobile telecommunications and founded Chapel Hill, in 2005.
Bolaji is a Board Member of the United Nations Global Compact. He is the Chairman of Unilever Nigeria
Plc and is Co-Chair of the Private Sector Advisory Group (“PSAG Nigeria”). He is the Chairman of Endeavor Nigeria and a Director of Trustfund Pensions, one of Nigeria’s largest pension fund managers. He was immediate past Chairman of Lafarge Africa Plc, Nahco FTZ Limited and a former Director of Nahco Aviance Plc and NASD Plc. He was appointed to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Africa Advisory Board in September 2009.
Bolaji is an Economics (Honours) graduate of the London School of Economics and is President of the LSE Nigeria Alumni Association.
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