Michael Martins Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, MA, US

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

- Dean’s fellowship recipient; BASE Scholar; Finance concentration with electives in strategy, supplemented by additional coursework in leadership, communications, and data-driven decision making- Activities and societies: Member of Investment banking Club, Venture Capital/Private Equity Club, and Investment management clubs- Pursuing Finance Certificate.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

• AFEX is Africa's fastest-growing alternative investment firm, with more than $400 million in annual revenue and operations in Africa, North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Prepared valuation using comps, precedent transactions, and DCF model which led to the close of $40 million in equity to support group's expansion across Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.
• Coordinated due diligence, confidential information memorandum and management presentations leading to the raise of $26.5 million in long-term debt to finance infrastructure investments across Nigeria, Kenya & Uganda.
• Developed the Leveraged Buyout (LBO) model to facilitate the $10 million acquisition of 58% majority stake in AFEX Group by the management team.
• Designed the product structure, negotiated deal terms, including listing and financial arrangements for the group's bond initiatives, includes a $250 million Asset Backed Commercial Paper program and a $100 million.

Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

• Developed the growth strategy for AFEX Group to unbundle the original marketplace business to different business entities (commodities marketplace, fulfilment and financing) increasing revenue by 206% year-on-year to.
• Developed the digitalisation strategy for the commodities exchange by leveraging technology to provide a broad range of strategic services to multiple stakeholders, improve business performance (increase GMV by 25%).
• Developed the ASP (franchise) model for AFEX Group and executed the pilot phase ($1 million in Debt; 95% repayment) which helped to reduce customer acquisition cost by 90%, increase farmer reach by 2.5% in its first.

Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

• Drafted an $100 million agreement with the Central Bank of Nigeria for the Strategic Grain Reserve to provide large-scale processors with access to subsidised commodity inventory saving more $40 million cash.
• Managed a $10 million portfolio for domestic trading of commodity assets across OTC-forwards, spot contracts, fixed-income, and exchange-traded contracts.
• Designed the first-ever exchange-traded commodity contracts in Africa (an alternative to spot & fixed income contracts) which generated a 90.67% annualised return for retail and institutional investors on the exchange.
• Developed the operational framework for the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative to help distribute subsidised fertiliser to more than 5 million smallholder farmers across Nigeria.

Abuja, Nigeria

• Computed weekly reports on the commodities market detailing price-volume trends, logistics framework, and seasonal tendencies of the commodities market and also provided weekly commodities market update on CNBC Africa.
• Constructed an improved price data reporting schematic which improved operational efficiency, reducing turnaround time in the computation of the commodities index and weekly commodities report.
• Analysed and forecast key economic and market data and provided periodic insights into the local and global commodities market.

Lagos, Nigeria

• Created a strategic business plan for a start-up company in the e-services sector; conducted research and in-depth analysis on the services industry; highlighting its trend, growth drivers and barriers to growth.
• Built a complete DCF model and valuation including funding requirements and financial ratios.
• Created pitch decks & investment teasers for presentation to investors for possible equity funding.

Nigeria

• M & M is a 20-year old wholesale and retail FMCG Firm with over $250,000 in Assets and $30,000 in yearly Gross Profit.
• Advised a $100,000 investment divestiture into real estate in Cote d'Ivoire to provide periodic liquidity to accentuate poor business cash flow with low correlation to the FMCG industry.
• Employed the use of Desktop Publishing Software like excel to manage and interpret large data spreadsheets containing various data entries for profit, sales, expenditure and inventory ensuring ease of analysis.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Activities and Societies: Member of Investment banking Club, Venture Capital/Private Equity Club, and Investment management clubs-Dean’s.

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, First Class Honours (4.9/5); Dean'S List For Best Graduating Students

Activities and Societies: - Co-founder & President, Bowen Finance Society; - President, Economics Students Association; - Student Brand.

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Completed 70 course credits on subjects ranging from Advanced Calculus & Differential Equations, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry.