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No. 182: 3 Thoughts: Shellye Archambeau | Africa’s 2018 VC Activity | Pollution Inequities

Mar 26, 2019

Africa, Business, Race & Society

Africa, inequity, pollution, private equity, race, silicon valley, vc

Take Bigger Risks: Shellye Archambeau, Former CEO, MetricStream I’ve seen Shellye Archambeau’s name around and have been intrigued to learn more about her story. Her appearance on Masters of Scale gives a great peak into how she’s navigated her way through Silicon Valley. What stood out in particular was her telling about a Bible her…
No. 140: Three AM Reads: Egypt Reaps from Devaluation | Private Equity Gets it Done in Uganda | Africans in the MLB

Apr 27, 2017

Africa, Notes, Race & Society

Actis, Africa, African MLB player, baseball, Charles Robertson, Currency Risk, Devaluation, MLB, private equity

No Pain. No Gain: Egypt Edition Yesterday, I bristled at the scenario of a group of hedge fund managers pushing for the devaluation of the Naira. A country going through a devaluation situation experiences lots of pain, but good can come from it. Egypt seems to be seeing early fruit from the devaluation it initiated…
No. 132: Bill Janeway Knows a Lot about Technology and Economics

Jan 9, 2016

Economics, Technology

Barry Ritholtz, BEA, Bill Janeway, Cambridge, Efficient Markets, Ferdinand Eberstadt, Keynes, Oxford, Princeton, private equity, Warburg Pincus

Barry Ritholtz did a fascinating interview with Bill Janeway, Managing Director at Warburb Pincus, a private equity shop whose name you may have seen when Timothy Geithner joined as President a few years ago. Side note: Warburg Pincus is the largest shareholder in Kosmos Energy, the exploration company that was part of the discovery of…
No. 61: Bridging “Trade not Aid”

May 2, 2015

Economics, Technology

Africa, infrastructure, investment, private equity

I gave a presentation earlier this week on how investment was key to moving the needle on transforming economic engagement with African countries from development aid to infrastructure. Here is my brainstorm in preparation for that talk, with some edits. During the IMF Spring Meetings a couple weeks ago, I heard a theme of working…
No. 59: President Obama’s Business in Africa Advisory Council Held First Meeting This Week

Apr 11, 2015

Africa

Africa, black & veatch, carlyle group, China, coordination, diapers, dominic barton, elizabeth littlefield, exim bank, finance, infrastructure, jay ireland, karen daniel, kevon makell, McKinsey, opic, penny pritzker, private equity, shea yeleen, teresa clarke, Trade, walmart

Last year, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker stood up the President’s Doing Business in Africa Advisory Council, a group of small, medium and large US businesses currently engaged in business on the continent and tasked with helping shape U.S. policy for business engagement with the continent. The makeup of the council is very interesting. You’ve got…
No. 51: Private Equity in Africa Made One Big Little Step

Jan 12, 2015

Africa, Race & Society

billion, comedy, healthcare, Helios, power, private equity, transportation

I may have done a fist pump when I saw that Helios Investment Partners raised $1.1 billion for its latest Africa-focused fund – a new record besting the $908 million the firm raised about three years ago. The notion of investing on the African continent is not such a novelty any longer. Sixty percent of…
No. 40: Three Things in African Markets You Need to Know This Week – October 14

Oct 14, 2014

Africa, Business, Economics

Africa, anti-corruption, assets, corruption, equatorial guinea, fast moving consumer goods, fmcg, kleptocracy, nguema, obiang, oil, oil exploration, president, private equity, scotland, second vice president, senegal, South Africa, vice president

Oil Discovered Off Senegal’s Coast – link The wave of West African countries discovering oil continues with Cairn Energy, a Scottish Oil Company, striking oil about 100km off the coast of Senegal. The company is not yet sure about the size of the discovery – a first for Senegal. When Ghana discovered oil in 2010,…

private equity

No. 182: 3 Thoughts: Shellye Archambeau | Africa’s 2018 VC Activity | Pollution Inequities

No. 140: Three AM Reads: Egypt Reaps from Devaluation | Private Equity Gets it Done in Uganda | Africans in the MLB

No. 132: Bill Janeway Knows a Lot about Technology and Economics

No. 61: Bridging “Trade not Aid”

No. 59: President Obama’s Business in Africa Advisory Council Held First Meeting This Week

No. 51: Private Equity in Africa Made One Big Little Step

No. 40: Three Things in African Markets You Need to Know This Week – October 14