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Temi Marcella Awogboro is a Co-Founder of Kairos Angels. Temi has more than a decade of experience in finance across developed and growth markets. As an investment professional, Temi has committed nearly one billion in private capital across strategic sectors in a bid to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Temi has extensive
experience in building and cultivating disruptive, transformative institutions that will emerge initially as regional champions and go on to be tomorrow’s global challengers. She looks for investments with visionary entrepreneurs to build scalable businesses and sustainable innovation ecosystems.
Temi started her career at Goldman Sachs International, where she was honoured as a Goldman Sachs Global Leaders Scholar and received the Goldman Sachs and Institute of International Education’s Global Leaders Award. Temi holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Master of Arts (MA) degree with First Class Honors in Economics from Christ’s College, the University of Cambridge, where she was a matriculation scholar.
Temi is a Kauffman Venture Capital Fellow, an African Leadership Institute Tutu Fellow, a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and Alumni Ambassador. She is the recipient of the Future Awards Africa Prize for Professional Service, M&A Advisor’s European Emerging Leaders Award and has been recognized as the Female Lead’s Top 20 Women under 20; and, Management Today and The Telegraph’s 35 Women Under 35 in the UK.
