Nimit Shah

Mr Shah has 20 years of relevant investment and advisory experience. He joined Helios in 2008 and has been involved with a number of private equity and private credit investments including Vivo Energy, GB Foods Africa, Continental Outdoor, OVH Energy and Africell. Prior to joining Helios, Mr Shah was a Director within the Financial Sponsors Group at Lehman Brothers in London. His experience there spanned M&A advisory, leveraged finance and equity capital markets in Europe and the US. Mr Shah started his career as a strategy consultant at Arthur D Little where his focus areas were corporate finance and telecommunications. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, he completed his high school education at Eton College in the UK; he has an MA in Economics and Management from Oxford University and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr Shah, a Kenyan and British national, speaks Swahili, Gujarati and Hindi.