ARM Harith Infrastructure Fund Managers (Armhif) has recently appointed Tariye Gbadegesin as its Managing director and Chief Investment Officer,CIO.
ARM Harith Infrastructure Fund Managers (Armhif) is a Joint Venture between Asset & Resource Management Company Ltd (ARM), a Nigerian institutional investor with US$2.3 billion of assets under management and Harith General Partners (Pty) Ltd (Harith), a South African infrastructure fund manager with over US$1 billion under management . Armhith was the first equity infrastructure fund to be licensed by the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission under its recent Infrastructure Fund rules.
With over twenty years of experience, Gbadegesin is an investment professional who has led investments of over $3bn in large-scale energy, infrastructure and industrial projects.
She was on the founding team to establish the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a pan African DFI with US$6 billion under management where she led several of AFC’s investments in the sectors of power, transport, industrials and telecommunications infrastructure
Gbadegesin has served on boards of several large scale infrastructure projects in Africa; Amandi IPP a 200MW dual fuel combine cycle power plant in Ghana, 2016 IJG Deal of the Year, Main One Cable Company, a Pan-African sub-sea and ICT company and has served on the board of Cabeolica S.A, a Cabo Verdean wind power IPP and an IFC-ranked top 10 PPP project in sub-Saharan Africa.
An Economics graduate of Anherst College, Gbadegesin is also an alumnus of Harvard University Business school where she earned an MBA in 2006.At AFC where she worked for a little over five years, January 2015 to April,2020 before joining ARMHarith, Gbadegesin was Head of the Heavy Industry and Telecomms Department.
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