Ije Okeke
Managing Partner
Ije Ikoku brings over 18 years of leadership experience in the fields of Investments and
Infrastructure Finance. She previously served as a founding team member and Chief Financial Officer of CEC Africa Investments, a multi-‐country infrastructure investment platform (with
approximately $1bn in assets under management) established to develop, finance and
operate power projects across Sub Saharan Africa
Prior to this she was a Senior Investment Officer and Infra Team Lead at the World
Bank/International Finance Corporation where she spent 7 years. In this role she was
responsible for all facets of deal sourcing, structuring, negotiating, and financing of
infrastructure transactions and Public Private Partnerships. Before joining IFC, she was the Finance Director at Geometric Power and previously spent
her professional career supporting entrepreneurial ventures in the US,
Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, and South Africa, and has worked at Charles Schwab, Emerging
Capital Partners, to name a few
Ije holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University (1997), and an MBA in Finance
& Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of Business, University of
Pennsylvania (2005)