Romeo Manyika

Romeo is an Industrialist, a serial Entrepreneur, Angel investor and Dealmaker. Romeo is the current CEO at AFRICA L.E.O (Luxury, Entrepreneurship & Opportunities) PRIVATE MEMBERS BUSINESS ORGANIZATION.

He has broad experience and knowledge in Capital Markets, Private Placements, Debt Offerings + 144A Offerings, Private Equity; PPP’s in mining, Commodity trading, Energy, ICT, Agriculture, Fund raising, Surety Bonds core investment banking disciplines including Mergers & Acquisitions. Transaction advisory & management.

Acts as an Overseer Principal for investment houses which specializes in financing projects in the emerging markets and frontier economies. He has solid networks of other investors of global capital plus providers of investment advisory and government services which he can tap into on behalf of clients. Based on his career experience in frontier markets and academic expertise in Finance and Economics, he has the following core competencies:

> Geographic Knowledge of Frontier Markets: He has either lived, worked or visited extensively in frontier markets, especially sub-Saharan Africa, Middle-East, Europe, including c75 field research trips to these states for over a decade.
> An Extensive & High Profile Network of Contacts: This ensures ready and efficient access to key decision makers in frontier markets in the government, corporate, banking and Development Finance Institutions (DFI) sectors.
> Product Knowledge of Global Investment Banking: Origination, Structuring and Distribution of assets from frontier markets to global investors; Trading a frontier market FX, fixed finance income and credit derivative client and proprietary book; Fund Managing frontier market multi- asset portfolios including FX, fixed income and equities.
> Market Intelligence & International Investor Access: Either through personal network or via best- in-class distribution agents to ensure that assets are targeted to investors with a proven and repeatable risk appetite for frontier market exposure.