Ademola AdesinaFounder

Nigeria - Lagos

Working with entrepreneurial management teams in challenging operating environments, I've focused on building or turning around early and growth stage enterprises for much of my career.

I'm co-founder and lead corporate development for Sabi, a technology provider of commerce infrastructure to enable and empower the most underserved merchants in the world. I founded Rensource, a pioneering West African provider of commercial & industrial solar energy. Rensource was the 2019 winner of the Financial Times / IFC Transformational Business Award for Climate and Urban Infrastructure Solutions.

Prior to Rensource, I was an Entrepreneur in Residence for Capricorn Investment Group, the Palo Alto based investment arm of Jeff Skoll and the Skoll Foundation. I previously led business development and corporate strategy for Aquifer, a London based and Africa focused investment holding company affiliated with Lord Sainsbury and the Gatsby Trust. I joined Aquifer from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York, where I was a founding member of an initiative that led to the creation of the Global Impact Investing Network.

I began my career in the Global Markets division of JPMorgan’s investment bank in New York, where I was responsible for the structuring and distribution of credit derivatives.

I have lived and worked in Africa, the USA, and Europe.