Head Of Consumer Businesses
London, Gb
CDC is a mission-driven investment firm aiming to make money and drive impact in some of the world's poorest countries, principally Africa and South Asia.One of the founding team who re-built CDC's equity team from 2012 onwards - team grew from 5 to 50+ investors and no portfolio to over $2b in just 7 years. Led the Consumer team overseeing all of our growth equity investments in health, education, technology and retail, investing over $500m in companies such as:- Narayana Healthcare - India's leading affordable hospital chain with 5,000+ beds, invested $33m and was on the board until we took the business public- Jumia - Africa's leading ecommerce company with GMV of >$1b. Invested $50m and was on the board until it became the first African tech company to IPO on the NYSE- UNICAF - Africa's leading online university - led the Series A and followed alongside Goldman Sachs in the Series B- Rainbow Healthcare - India's leading pediatric healthcare provider and one of Asia's fastest growing healthcare businesses. Sole investor and helped the company grow from $15m to $100m in revenues- BigBasket - India's leading online grocery business, using technology to transform the food supply chain benefiting both farmers and suppliers. Invested $40m alongside Alibaba- Daraz - Pakistan and Bangladesh's leading ecommerce company. Led the Series B and business grew very rapidly to become dominant player before exiting to Alibaba.- Bridge Academies - world's leading tech-driven provider of education to the world's poorest children, grew from serving 40,000 to over 400,000 children and raised capital from leading investors like NEA, CZI and Bill Gates- Liquid Telecom - $180m into Africa's largest provider of fibre and data centres for pan-continental expansion- Myanmar Net - the leading ISP in Myanmar and one of the fastest-growing ISPs in Asia leveraging proprietary technology to radically reduce the cost to serve millions of customers across the developing world