Founder · Board Director · Speaker

Mayowa Adeosun

Founder and CEO of Assetrica, governance infrastructure for African real asset capital markets. Board director at Sycamore and Bedrock Residencies. Speaker and writer on capital, governance and technology in African markets.
Founder & CEO, Assetrica
Fifteen years across Central Bank of Nigeria, Leadway Assurance, Accenture and Sycamore
Non-executive director on two boards.
SPEAKING

Ideas for building trusted African markets.

Governance as the Unlock for Institutional Capital in African Real Assets
The Capital Stack and Ecosystem Behind African Real Assets
Technology, Data, and AI as Capital Markets Infrastructure
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Who I am

Building institutions for the next chapter of African growth

I’ve sat in three seats. At Leadway Assurance I priced the risk, underwriting whether contractors and counterparties would deliver before a guarantee was issued. At Sycamore, which I co-founded, I took the risk, building a regulated financial services group and running its operations and finance for seven years. At Assetrica I record it: an independent, verifiable record of every mandate, so that institutional capital can move into African real assets on evidence rather than on trust alone. Each seat taught me what the next one needed. I also sit on the boards of Sycamore and Bedrock Residencies, and I speak and write for the institutions, builders and diaspora professionals deciding whether Africa is worth their capital and their careers.

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Keynotes, panels and executive briefings on governance, real asset capital markets and the technology beneath them.

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Board and advisory

I serve as a non-executive director at Sycamore, the financial services group I co-founded, and at Bedrock Residencies, where I chair the Finance and Budget Committee. I'm open to further board and advisory roles, in Nigeria or internationally, where my experience in finance, operations and governance is useful, and particularly to companies crossing borders in either direction: African businesses expanding into the UK or US, or international businesses entering Nigeria and the continent. I hold British and Nigerian citizenship and have operated in both systems. All roles are subject to a conflict-of-interest review against my existing board and executive commitments.

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If you're building, investing, advising or mentoring in this space, or you're in the diaspora and thinking about Africa, I'd like to hear from you.

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Outlook

Where I think this is going

Nigeria has leapfrogged before. It happened in telecommunications and in banking, and it’s beginning in energy as new refining capacity comes online. I remember when most Nigerians wouldn’t type their card details into anything online. Today nobody thinks twice, because trust was built into the system, and whole industries grew on top of it. I think the next one is happening in real assets: the housing, power, roads and farms the continent is physically made of, and the capital markets that will finance them. The money exists, at home and in the diaspora. What has been missing is a record that lets it move on evidence, and that is what is being built now.

The frontier market story has been told for twenty years. What’s different is that the infrastructure is finally being built, and it’s being built here. I don’t want Nigerians, Africans or the diaspora to watch it happen from the outside. If you’re working in the West, work hard, learn everything you can, and stay open to the moment when your experience is needed here. That moment is closer than it looks.

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