Nnena Nkongho

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Biography

Ms. Nnena Nkongho Founded and served as Managing Partner at Otundi Ventures. She serves as Board Member at Rhino Africa. Ms. Nkongho served as Principal at DiGAME Investment Company. Ms. Nkongho has 16 years of experience in identifying, building, and capturing value for (and on behalf of) corporates and funds. Immediately before DiGAME, She was an early employee and Global Head of Business Development at SOLO Phone Nigeria, a venture-funded, Nigerian mobile device and content ecosystem. Before that, she was a consultant, working with African enterprises on mandates that included: corporate strategy, new market entry, and funding growth investments-including serving as the Interim Head of Strategy & Business Development for Etisalat Nigeria (now 9mobile). She has extensive experience with public and private market investment opportunities and has focused on the Sub-Saharan African region for almost 10 years. She was an Analyst and member of the founding team at Nubuke Investments and was responsible for sourcing, structuring, and executing investments in the telecom, media, and technology sectors. Before joining the Nubuke team, she spent four years at Merrill Lynch on the equity arbitrage desk. She began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department in Hong Kong and the Financial Institutions Group (Insurance) in New York. She has an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BA from Princeton University.