Bio

Babacar joined DPI 9 years ago. Babacar has over 10 years of African private equity experience and he leads on investments, sourcing, structuring, executing, and exiting transactions across the continent, sitting on numerous portfolio company boards including Atlantique Business International (ABI – Banque Atlantique Group), KMR Group (Université Privée de Marrakech – UPM), Touax Africa and Food Concepts Plc. Prior to DPI, Babacar worked as a Summer Associate at Standard Bank Group in London where he assessed and structured mezzanine and debt investments in the mining, infrastructure and telecommunication sectors across Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to this, Babacar was an Investment Analyst in the Global Transaction Team at the IFC in Washington DC, where he evaluated, negotiated and executed direct investments in Latin America, Eastern Europe and Middle East across multiple industries including manufacturing services, paper and packaging, retail and FMCG. Babacar holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration – Finance from the University of California, Riverside; and an MBA from the University of Oxford.