Fabrice Nze-Bekale

Fabrice Nze-Bekale joined the Board in January 2022. Mr. Nze-Bekale has over 25 years of experience in mining, banking, telecoms, M&A and international finance. Mr. Nze-Bekale has served on numerous boards and as a senior executive across his career. He currently serves as an independent director on the Board of Orabank Gabon, where he is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee and serves on the Risk Committee. From 2012 to 2020, he was a member of the Board of the Fonds Gabonais D’Investissements Strategiques, Gabon’s sovereign wealth fund.

Since 2017 Mr. Nze-Bekale has served as Chief Executive Officer of ACT Afrique based in Dakar, Senegal, providing strategic advisory and investment banking expertise to governments as well as to public and private entities in West Africa. Prior to joining ACT Afrique, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Societe Equatoriale Des Mines, and prior to that, he was Director of Investment Banking for Standard Bank PLC based in London from 2008 to 2011.

Mr. Nze-Bekale is a Gabonese national and holds a Master’s Degree in Finance and Financial Engineering from the University of Paris-Dauphine (France) with an MBA from the London Business School (UK).