Damilola Thompson

Damilola Thompson is a co-lead for the SoGal Nigerian Chapter and is the Senior Counsel, Legal, Compliance and Corporate Development of EchoVC Partners, and has over 10 years of legal experience. Prior to this, she worked for a top-tier law firm in Lagos, Nigeria for 4 years, with core competencies in Corporate, Venture Capital and Private Equity transactions. During this period, she drove seed/early-stage financing transactions for startups, and represented African and international investors. In her years of legal practice, she has gained experience and acted as a legal adviser to a number of companies involved in Microfinance, Oil and Gas, Telecommunications, Mobile money sectors. Ms. Thompson is passionate about startups and venture financing, and providing early-stage companies with much needed mentorship required for scaling. She has a graduate degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria and is on track to obtaining an LL.M in Business Law from the University of California, Berkeley. She has also completed various post-graduate courses including the Kauffman Fellows Academy’s course on Venture Capital. She is a member of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom (CIArb UK), a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) and a part of the leadership team of the SingularityU Lagos Chapter. She provides mentorship to a number of startups and is a mentor with the Unreasonable Institute, Nigeria.