Yomi Jemibewon

Yomi Jemibewon is a co-founder and Managing Director at CardinalStone Capital Advisers (CCA), a West Africa-focused private equity fund manager. CCA is currently managing the CCA Growth Fund, a $64 million fund that invests in high-growth SMEs operating in key strategic sectors of the Nigerian and Ghanaian economies. Prior to CCA, Yomi co-founded CardinalStone Partners, a diversified investment management firm, and led the firm’s Principal Investments Division. Before this, he was a Vice President at Avante Capital in Lagos and a strategy consultant with Bain & Company in New York. Yomi holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He is also the author of Risk and Return, a book which chronicles his return to Nigeria and the entrepreneurial and life journey that ensued.