Dara Owoyemi

Chief Operating Officer, AVCA

Dara Owoyemi, a Nigerian native brings several years of corporate finance M&A experience gained at Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Renaissance Capital and Ondra Partners. Dara has a MEng in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London and has attended the Investment Management executive course at London Business School. She has worked in the UK and Africa, covering clients in UK, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo and Cape Verde. She currently sits as the deputy-chair of the Nigerian Private Equity & Venture Capital Development Committee.