Mr Bolaji Balogun

Bolaji Balogun is one of the leading deal makers by volume and value of successfully completed transactions in Nigeria, over the last decade. Bolaji has over 30 years of experience in investment banking, investment management and mobile telecommunications. He spent over ten years with the FCMB Group, in investment banking and securities trading, leaving in January 2001 to be a co-founder and Director of Econet Wireless Nigeria, now Airtel Nigeria. Bolaji led the capital raising and license bid auction for Econet Wireless Nigeria’s USD285 million GSM license. He was Chief Business Development & Strategy Officer and was appointed Chief Marketing Officer in October 2001. The USD1.67 billion sale of Econet Wireless to Celtel in 2005, remains Nigeria’s single largest successfully exited private investment. Bolaji left mobile telecommunications and returned to investment banking when he founded Chapel Hill in 2005.

Bolaji is Co-Chair of the Private Sector Advisory Group on the SDGs, Chairman of Endeavor Nigeria, Chairman of Unilever Nigeria, and a Director of Trustfund Pensions, one of Nigeria’s largest pension Fund Managers. He was the former 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 and was recently appointed as the Co-Chair of the Abia Global Economic Advisory Council (AGEAC) in January 2024.

Bolaji is an Economics (Honours) graduate of the London School of Economics, University of London.