Yomi Jemibewon

Yomi Jemibewon is a co-founder and Managing Director at CardinalStone Capital Advisers (“CCA”) a West Africa focused private equity fund manager. CCA is currently managing the CCA Growth Fund, a $64 million Fund that invests in high-growth SMEs operating in key strategic sectors of the Nigerian and Ghanaian economies.

Prior to CCA, Yomi co-founded CardinalStone Partners, a diversified investment management firm, and led the firm’s Principal Investments Division. Before this, he was a Vice President at Avante Capital in Lagos, and a strategy consultant with Bain & Company in New York.

Yomi holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. Yomi is also the author of the book, “Risk and
Return”; a book which chronicles his return to Nigeria and the entrepreneurial and life journey that ensued thereafter.