Abiola Okubanjo

Experience

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  Arthur Andersen Business Consulting

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Corporate Finance: Mergers & Acquisitions
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  Deloitte

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  Fund Placement

  Secured fund capital for mid-market buyout firms in Europe. Wrote Fund Placement Memorandums and organised European Investor Roadshows.

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  Royal Bank of Scotland

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  Leveraged Finance

  Involved in debt structuring for Management buy-outs (MBOs), Leveraged acquisitions and Recapitalisations. Managed a portfolio of the banks leveraged finance investments.

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  New Amsterdam Capital

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2009

  Portfolio Manager

  Provided fundamental analysis to enable firm to invest in leveraged finance, secured bank loans, mezzanine finance, high yield bonds, credit derivatives, structured finance, and structured debt transactions. Managed the firms investments on a portfolio of investments.

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  Amonet Group: Healthcare

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2012

  Executive Director

  Managed the UK operations comprising Residential and Domiciliary Care. Managed employee base of 300+ full-time, part-time, zero-hour and casual workers across 5 locations. Project managed acquisition of US business.

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  Tiger Lily Group

  Jan 2012 - Jul 2017

  Founder & Managing Director

  Establish and run businesses in Nigeria and other Emerging Markets of Sub-Saharan Africa. Analyse the market potential, understand the landscape and deliver the particular implementation plan to get businesses beyond seed funding stage. Raise funds for next stage of business development.

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  LifeBlood Donor Foundation

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2016

  Director, Funding & Strategy
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  Adventures in Compassionate Commerce

  Mar 2017 - now

  Founder & Director

  I am a serial entrepreneur with the passion, skills and drive to start new ventures in various sectors and markets. I am also founder and director of Adventures in Compassionate Commerce, a UK-registered incubator that funds, sets up and capacity builds venture businesses committed to social development in Africa. My key focus is on:Action On Blood - A blood administration service that collects blood through its voluntary blood donor members, processes it to international quality standards and distributes it to registered hospitals across Nigeria. Our goal is to provide universal access to this life-saving, yet expensive, therapy in a country where 54% of the population lives on less than US$1.90 a day.Other businesses include: Black Goat Company - A body care manufacturer of artisan soaps, scrubs and balms using natural african ingredients such as black soap, goat’s milk and shea butter.Parklands - A domestic staff agency that sources and trains people with low-skills and finds them paid-employment as professional Nannies, Housekeepers, Stewards and Cooks. Our goal is to use training and employment to address the poverty in Nigeria that drives millions to risk their lives through illegal and unsafe migration to Europe.Previous businesses include:Tiger Lily Children’s Wear - An online and direct mail fashion retailer of trendy yet affordable clothes for tweens, teens and young people across Sub-Saharan Africa.ForeFront Training & Recruitment - A London-based recruitment company that sources quality candidates for corporate and management roles, particularly in finance and hospitality. Show less

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  Action On Blood

  Feb 2018 - now

  CEO & Founder

  Action On Blood is a global community of blood donors that commit to donate blood regularly and spread the voluntary donation message widely. We recruit, nurture and mobilise others to do the same, in their own communities, in their own ways.

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  Sahara BioMedix

  Oct 2018 - now

  CEO & Founder

  From Cambridge, the heart of the UK's biotech industry, Sahara BioMedix is a biopharmaceutical company that provides blood, blood components and biobanking services for global healthcare, pharmaceutical and clinical research companies.