Laureen Kouassi-Olsson Email & Phone Number

Abidjan, Ci

Mauritius

Abidjan, Côte D'Ivoire

Bridgebank Bank Group Côte d’Ivoire is a financial institution with operations in Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal active in commercial banking, trade financing, asset management, private banking and mobile money. With total assets exceeding 1bnEUR, BBG-CI is the 10th largest bank in Côte d’Ivoire.

Morocco

Bank of Africa is one of the leading banking and financial services groups in Africa with a presence in 19 countries.

Orange Abidjan Participations is the Holding Company in charge of Banking and financial services activities in western francophone Africa for the Orange Group.

Luxembourg

IC Member of IPDEV2, investment vehicle of I&P dedicated to fostering and promoting local private equity funds and GPs on the continent

Ghana

Ghana

Mauritius

Mauritius

CFL is a platform holding majority shareholdings in financial assets in eastern and Southern Africa (banking, asset management, fiduciary services, Private Equity)

Mauritius

Abidjan

Groupe NSIA is the leading banking and insurance group in western and central Africa

Paris Area, France

- Responsible for the origination, appraisal and structuring of investment opportunities in the Sub-Saharan Africa Financial Services industry- Responsible for the fund raising and structuring of Amethis Finance’s investment vehicle dedicated to Francophone Africa with a total investment capacity of 40MEUR ("Amethis West Africa")- Represent Amethis Finance at Conferences, panel discussions and workshopsSelected Transaction Experience:- Sourcing, appraisal and structuring of Amethis and National Bank of Canada's equity investment in NSIA Participations, holding of the NSIA Group, a leading pan african banking insurance group (Western and Central Africa, March 2015)- Structuring and execution of Amethis' equity investment in Ciel Finance Limited, financial platform operating an asset management company( IPRO), a financial services provider (MITCO), private equity funds (Kibo funds) and commercial banks (Bank one in Mauritius, BNI in Madagascar), Mauritius December 2014- Appraisal, structuring and execution of a USD 35M equity investment in Fidelity Bank, in a combination of ordinary and non-redeemable preference shares (Ghana-April 2014), in co-investment with the Edmond de Rothschild Group- Sourcing, appraisal and structuring of a USD 10M Tier 2 financing to UTB Bank (Ghana-July 2013)

Abidjan

Regional Head in charge of Amethis West Africa, a regional fund dedicated to Amethis’ investments in Western and Central Africa. Responsibilities include investor relations, fund raising and origination.Responsible for Amethis' Investment strategy in the Financial Sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Responsibilities include monitoring of current investments as well as sourcing and execution of Investment opportunities

- Responsible for the appraisal and structuring of investment opportunities in the Sub-Saharan Africa Financial Services industry- In charge of the coverage of Proparco’s activities in East Africa - Represented Proparco’s interests at the Board and Annual General Meetings of various banking and insurance groups (included but not limited to AFRICA RE, I&M Bank Kenya, I&M Tanzania)Selected Transaction Experience: In charge of the appraisal, structuring and negotiation processes of the following transactions:- Restructuring of the I&M Group’s participations in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania through a reverse merger with an Holding Companie and its subsequent listing on the Nairobi Stock Exchange (Nairobi-March2013)- Buyout of Actis’ majority stake in Banque Commerciale du Rwanda (“BCR”) along I&M Bank and DEG (Rwanda-June 2013)- EUR 20M acquisition financing for NSIA Group (Côte d’Ivoire-May 2012)- Proparco’s acquisition of a minority stake in CAL BANK along DPI (Ghana-May 2012)- Proparco’s acquisition of a minority stake in AFRICA Re along DEG, IFC and the African Development Bank (Nigeria-April 2011)-Proparco’s acquisition of a minority stake in CFUB (subsequently renamed I&M Tanzania) along I&M Bank (Tanzania-January 2010)Publications: “Supporting the Emergence of a sustainable financial sector in Africa”, Private Sector and Development, Issue 16, Proparco Magazine. (http://www.proparco.fr/webdav/site/proparco/shared/PORTAILS/Secteur_prive_developpement/PDF/SPD16/SPD16_lefilleur_Kouassi_Olsson_UK.pdf)

Selected Transaction experience:- Advisor to Wendel, a leading French Family Office, for its €5.5bn acquisition of a 21.5% stake in Saint-Gobain, a leading French Building Material company , and for the negotiations on its representation to Saint-Gobain’s Board of Directors (France & UK-2008)

Gmp, Organizational Leadership, Strategy & Advanced Management

GMP is a Harvard Business School Senior Executive program designed for seasoned executives with at least 15-20 years of experience.

Msc, Corporate Finance, Capital Markets

Activities and Societies: Declic (EM Lyon Photography Association) Rotary International

Education record

Education record

Education record