Professional History: Temi is an experienced senior private equity executive with over 10 years of experience across developed and growth markets. As an investment professional, Temi has committed over half a billion in private capital across strategic sectors including Healthcare, Manufacturing, Agribusiness, and Financial Services, in a bid to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Temi has extensive entrepreneurial experience and has been instrumental in building and cultivating disruptive, transformative institutions that will emerge initially as regional champions and go on to be tomorrow’s global challenges. As a co-founder of Kairos Angels, Temi invests in visionary entrepreneurs building scalable businesses and sustainable innovation ecosystems.

Temi started her career at Goldman Sachs International, where she was honored as a Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Scholar and received the Goldman Sachs and Institute of International Education’s Global Leaders Award. Temi has extensive board and committee experience with the Equality Fund Board of Directors, Evercare Hospital Lekki Founding Board Member, Save the Children UK Africa Advisory Board, and Alumni Ventures Group Spike Investment Fund.

Temi is an African Leadership Institute Tutu Fellow, and an alumnus of the World Economic Forum Global Shaper Community and Alumni Ambassador. She is the recipient of the Future Awards Africa Prize for Professional Service, M&A Advisor’s European Emerging Leaders Award and has been recognized as the Female Lead’s Top 20 Women under 20; and, Management Today and The Telegraph’s 35 Women Under 35 in the UK.

Academic and professional credentials: MA (Hons), First Class, University of Cambridge
MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Programs: Temi has been selected for the Milken Institute's Young Leaders Circle and is a Kauffman Venture Capital Fellow.