43 min
EP 13 What exactly is Private Equity? A Conversation With Fope Adelowo on the misconceptions in private equity Saka's Is That So
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- Entrepreneurship
In this episode Saka and Fope explore the misconceptions in private equity including if their business model is fundamentally flawed,how the tensions between founders and equity investors actually plays out and a host of other interesting topics.
Fope Adelowo is a Senior Vice President at Helios investment
Ms Adelowo has 13 years of relevant professional experience. Prior to joining Helios in April 2014, she was a Fellow in the Principal Investment Group at Cardinal Stone Partners in Lagos and served in several roles in the Emerging Markets Structured Products team and Fixed Income team at Goldman Sachs in New York. Ms Adelowo serves on the Board of Directors of TPAY Mobile FZ-LLC. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and MEng from Imperial College London. She is a Nigerian national.
Follow Fope: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fope-adelowo-889a1745/
ABOUT THE HOST: Saka is a global citizen with African origins. As part of Saka's work, he regularly mentors startups and underrepresented founders. Saka is also a public speaker, writer, and host of the podcast "Saka's is that so?"
Saka graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Master's in Engineering & Business as the youngest valedictorian in the engineering graduate school's history at 21 years and 190 days old. His career spans 3 continents in multiple functions from Marketing, Sales, Strategy, and Finance.
Saka is passionate about Technology, Culture, and Conversation with a focus on innovation, representation and conversation.
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In this episode Saka and Fope explore the misconceptions in private equity including if their business model is fundamentally flawed,how the tensions between founders and equity investors actually plays out and a host of other interesting topics.
Fope Adelowo is a Senior Vice President at Helios investment
Ms Adelowo has 13 years of relevant professional experience. Prior to joining Helios in April 2014, she was a Fellow in the Principal Investment Group at Cardinal Stone Partners in Lagos and served in several roles in the Emerging Markets Structured Products team and Fixed Income team at Goldman Sachs in New York. Ms Adelowo serves on the Board of Directors of TPAY Mobile FZ-LLC. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and MEng from Imperial College London. She is a Nigerian national.
Follow Fope: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fope-adelowo-889a1745/
ABOUT THE HOST: Saka is a global citizen with African origins. As part of Saka's work, he regularly mentors startups and underrepresented founders. Saka is also a public speaker, writer, and host of the podcast "Saka's is that so?"
Saka graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a Master's in Engineering & Business as the youngest valedictorian in the engineering graduate school's history at 21 years and 190 days old. His career spans 3 continents in multiple functions from Marketing, Sales, Strategy, and Finance.
Saka is passionate about Technology, Culture, and Conversation with a focus on innovation, representation and conversation.
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sakasisthatso/
YouTube: Sakaisthatso https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEGAZ9hNdez14zT77WUrXXA?
Website: https://www.sakasisthatso.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sakasisthatso
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saka-saddiq-nuru-6184b037
Twitter: https://twitter.com/saka_nuru
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sakasisthatso
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43 min