Adebolanle Badejo

Mr. Adebolanle (Debola) Badejo is a results-oriented investment professional experienced in advising companies on strategy, corporate finance, and capital allocation. He currently serves as an Investment Executive at UAC of Nigeria Plc (UAC) where he is responsible for managing the Group’s interests in the Food and Beverage sectors. He currently serves as a Non-Executive Director at UAC Foods Limited and UAC Restaurants Limited.

Debola is also a Principal at Themis Capital Management (Themis), an active investment company focused on concentrating capital, talent, and expertise on a select number of long-term investments in companies that will benefit from Africa’s demographic trends.

Prior to joining Themis in 2018, Debola spent over 10 years as a Corporate Finance Executive in various leading investment banks, including Standard Bank in Lagos, London, and Johannesburg, where he executed Mergers & acquisition, restructuring and capital raising transactions across Sub-Saharan Africa; and Morgan Stanley in New York, where he worked on multi-billion dollar transactions for large corporates across North America.

Debola graduated with a B.Sc in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia in May 2008 and holds MBA degrees from both Columbia Business School and London Business School through the schools’ Joint Global Executive MBA program.