Mr. Michael Alalade is a seasoned board member and c-suite investment management executive with a demonstrated track record of successfully founding, acquiring, optimising and scaling purpose-driven businesses within emerging markets and frontier industries. Mr. Alalade is a detail-oriented economist who employs a visionary leadership style aimed at inspiring empowerment and entrepreneurship in everyone he interacts with. He graduated from the University of West London and received an MSc from the London School of Economics & Political Science. He is the co-founder and managing partner of AqaebA Capital Management, the founder and chief executive of the Pantheon Commodities Group, founder and president of the Manumission Foundation, and serves on the executive committee of numerous companies across multiple sectors. Mr. Alalade does not currently serve on the board of trustees of any publicly traded companies.