Diana is a frontier markets professional providing business and transaction advisory services to SMEs within Sub-Saharan Africa. This support entails deal origination, investor readiness, deal structuring, capital raising, investor relations and portfolio company support for SMEs.

Diana has over 16 years work experience in the capital markets and private equity/venture capital industries in Sub Saharan Africa. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Private Equity Support (PES) – an Enterprise Support Advisory organisation. PES works with Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) to provide investor readiness support to SGBs seeking to raise early stage financing or reposition for sustainable growth.

Diana has previously worked in asset management at Britam Asset Management where she focused on the private equity and real estate segments. She was also the Head of Investor Relations at Fusion Group Africa, a regional private equity firm domiciled out of Guernsey, raising over USD 40m for a first time team, on a first time fund, investing in East Africa.

Prior to that, Diana set up and led the Investor Relations department at the Nairobi Securities Exchange, including managing the public relations and communications aspects.

Wilfred started his career in enterprise software, working for several local and international software houses. With a keen interest in the transformative potential of entrepreneurship, he ventured out into tech enterprise for a number of years, after which he found he could have greater impact by enabling other entrepreneurs to thrive. He has since worked in various capacities providing business strategy and investment support to entrepreneurs.

Wilfred is PFAN’s Regional Coordinator in the Eastern Africa Region, where he works to grow investment towards clean energy ventures.