Konyin Ajayi is the Managing Partner of the law firm, Olaniwun Ajayi, and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, with over twenty-nine years of legal practice experience. Konyin is a member of various domestic and international associations such as the International Bar Association, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, the English and the Nigerian Bar Association.

Konyin Ajayi holds an LLM from Harvard Law School, and a PhD in International markets from Cambridge. He was also an FGN scholar in the University of Ife.

Thomas Barry is the President and Chief Executive Offier of Zephyr Management, L.P., an investment management company, which he founded
in 1994.

Prior to founding Zephyr, Mr. Barry was President and CEO of Rockefeller & Co from 1983 to 1993.  Previously, Mr. Barry was employed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. from 1969 to 1982.

Mr. Barry received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1969 and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Pascal G. Dozie is the founder and former chairman of Diamond Bank PLC (LON: DBGA).   He is currently the chairman of MTN Nigeria, the Co- Chairman of the Commonwealth Business Council board, and a founding partner of Africa Capital Alliance.  Pascal Dozie is also the chairman and founder of Kunoch Limited.

Pascal Dozie holds an MSc in Econometrics from City University, London and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ike Osakwe, is a Chartered Accountant and practicing Management Consultant. Educated in England, Ike holds degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and has served Articles in the London offices of KPMG Audit. 

He serves as the Managing Director of GRID Consulting Ltd., a company that specialises in the planning and implementation of change processes and systems. He currently serves on the Boards of Oando Plc., Thomas Wyatt Nig. Plc and FedEx Red Star Nig Ltd.

Elsa L. Wentling, is a management consultant with Monitor Group. Her expertise ranges from developing growth/acquisition strategies at corporate, regional & business unit level to market segmentations and business valuations.

Ms. Wentling also advised a pan-African telecommunications company on new business development; prior to that, she was an investment officer for a
pan- African private equity firm. She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard Business School.