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Chairman
Dr Adiele Onyeze
Dr Adiele Onyeze is Chairman of Ephesus Investments and Assets Ltd. He founded the firm to connect sovereign, institutional and private capital with infrastructure, urban-development and energy projects in Africa, and he leads every mandate personally.
In 2018 he was lead adviser on the US$1 billion investment partnership between Hondius Capital Management of New York and the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe, working with the Office of the President and Cabinet, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development and the One-Stop Investment Services Centre, and organising the investor’s due-diligence visit.
Before founding Ephesus, he spent about three decades in global public-health leadership at the United Nations/World Health Organization, working with government leaders, investment partners, multilateral funders and national programmes across Africa and around the world. With his deep experience and wide networks of high-level networks & high-net-worth investors, he now leads the firm’s work on a proposed US$1 billion infrastructure and housing fund in Kenya and on transport and airport-precinct concessions in Tanzania.
Based in Nairobi · Languages English · Contact via info@ephesusinvestments.biz
Advisory board
We are appointing an advisory board of three to five senior figures with careers in East African government and development finance, Gulf sovereign and institutional investment, and European infrastructure finance. Each appointment is published here, with a full biography, as it is confirmed.
Status as of October 2026: appointments in progress.
Team
Each mandate is staffed by the Ephesus Investments team, with transaction and research support, and by the licensed partners the mandate requires: counsel in the host country and the investor’s jurisdiction, technical and environmental advisers, and, where a pooled vehicle is used, a CMA-licensed fund manager.
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