Francis Komla Nyoagbe
Executive Director
Yaw Saifah
Vice President, Corporate Finance & Research
Yaw has over 10 years’ experience spanning private equity, corporate development and investment banking. He is currently Vice President, Pensions & Institutional Fund Management at UMB Investment Holdings.
Yaw previously held the role of Vice President, Treasury Operations where he was responsible for the provision of fixed income solutions to private and institutional investors to enable them achieve their investment objectives. He also held the role of Vice President, Corporate Finance & Advisory at UMB Investment Holdings with his responsibilities spanning advisory, capital raising and M&A, just to mention a few.
Prior to this, he was a Private Equity Analyst at The First Group (Ghana), an investment management firm, where he executed investments and managed a portfolio covering the financial services, media and real estate sectors. Yaw was previously an Investment Analyst at Black Star Advisors, where he provided growth capital to Ghanaian SMEs and managed a portfolio of companies covering the manufacturing, agribusiness and services sectors. In addition to his fund management and operations responsibilities for the Christian Community Mutual Fund – an ethical mutual fund managed by Black Star Advisors, he played instrumental roles in the advisory and consulting team of Black Star Advisors which provided services to local and foreign clients.
Yaw holds an MBA (Finance) from the University of Edinburgh Business School and a BSc. in Business Administration from Ashesi University. He also holds a Ghana Securities Industry Certificate issued by the Ghana Stock Exchange.
Eric Adjei-Yeboah
Eric Adjei-Yeboah is an Investment Banker with over fifteen (15) years of professional experience. Eric started his career with Merban Investment Holdings Limited – the Investment Banking Unit of Merchant Bank Ghana Limited (now known as Universal Merchant Bank), which was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank. He moved on to Standard Securities Limited, a Fund Management firm as Head of Asset Management, and later became the Chief Executive Director.
Eric rejoined UMB Investment Holdings Limited in 2017 as Assistant Manager responsible for Investments, and is currently the Manager in charge of Wealth Management Portfolio. He also worked with Cocoa Processing Company as an Account Trainee at the Finished Products Stores at Tema Industrial Area.
Eric holds an MSc. In Finance from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), a Master of Arts in Ministry (MAM – Trinity Theological Seminary), a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from the Methodist University College (Banking & Finance Option), a Ghana Securities Industry Certificate (Licensed as Fund Management Representative) and a Level 3 of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. Eric is also currently pursuing an LLB program.