Meet Okechukwu Enelamah of Abia state, The New Minster Of Trade, Investment and Industry.

Dr Enelamah  is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of African Capital Alliance (ACA), an investment and advisory company. Having garnered experience in the world’s renowned financial centres of London and New York as well as Johannesburg, he co-founded ACA to promote private sector-led investments in Nigeria and West Africa. African Capital Alliance manages a family of private equity funds with over USD160 million in capital commitments. President Muhammadu Buhari encouraged him as the head of the Nigeria’s biggest private equity firm to join his cabinet.

A qualified chartered accountant and chartered financial analyst, he was elected George F. Baker Scholar and designated Loeb Fellow for academic excellence in the area of finance at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where he earned a Master in Business Administration [MBA] with distinction in 1994.

Dr Enelamah first graduated as a medical doctor before qualifying as a chartered accountant. He has an MBA from the prestigious Harvard Business School, Massachusetts, USA and is also a chartered financial analyst. Enelamah’s journey into the world of finance began in 1988 at Arthur Andersen & Co. [Now KPMG Professional Services WA] where he led project teams as senior consultant and audit senior. He went on to work in the New York and London offices of Goldman Sachs & Co. in the summer of 1993, before moving on to Zephyr Management LP in New York as an investment manager. He became a principal at Capital Zephyr, Johannesburg, South Africa between 1995 and 1997, where he worked with the chief executive to launch a $150 million fund for direct equity investments in post-apartheid South Africa.

Enelamah, who was President and Chief Tournament Director of the Nigerian National Scrabble Club, was awarded national prizes in ICAN examinations and the Dean’s List of the 1985 graduating class of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

He is the Chief Executive Officer of African Capital Alliance Limited (ACA), a leading private equity firm – a terrain he was adequately prepared for after working with Zephyr Management L.P in New York and South Africa Capital Growth Fund in Johannesburg.

Dr Enelamah, who also worked for leading outfits – Arthur Andersen and Goldman Sachs. He currently, serves on the Board of several Companies and not-for-profit organizations including Cornerstone Insurance Plc, e-Tranzact Global Limited, TechnoServe, Africa Leadership Initiative West Africa and Africa Venture Capital Association. He is also the Chairman of the Boards of Flavours Food Limited and Landmark Property Development Company (LPDC) among others. He joined the Board in 2010.