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Kojo Parris

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kojo@theirazugroup.com
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http://www.socialprivateentrepreneur.com/team.html
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Kojo Parris conceptualised and founded Social Private Equity South Africa (SPESA). He is the chairman of Homeless Talk, a newspaper for indigent persons in Johannesburg and mentors young adults through formations such as Youth Alliance for Leadership & Development in Africa (YALDA). He won a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust’s scholarship and read for an MA in Engineering (Manufacturing), then joined Booker-Tate Engineering Management in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Kenya and Canada.

Kojo then joined Deloitte & Touche’s London management consultancy where he completed his accounting training, and focused on the reform and commercialisation of state and parastatal entities – specifically health, telcoms and local government. He was recruited to NM Rothschilds’ London telecoms corporate finance team then transferred to NMR’s Zimbabwean associate, Merchant Bank of Central Africa. After originating and executing Zimbabwe’s first LBO of a listed company, TA Holdings, he joined their management team to guide the strategy.

He next moved to Takura Ventures Fund, CDC’s (Actis’ predecessor) as part of their private equity team. Kojo was then invited to lead the investment banking business of African Banking Corporation Holdings (ABCH). There he built a 7-country 32 person team spanning the corporate finance, asset management, unit trusts and private equity disciplines, across south, east and central Africa. He then relocated to Johannesburg to establish ABCH’s regional HQ.