Kayode Akinola

Head Private Equity at Blue Earth Capital AG

Kayode Akinola heads the global private equity direct investments practice at Blue Earth Capital. He has more than 20 years of private equity investment experience across developed and emerging markets, and before Blue Earth Capital was a Director in the Private Equity team at investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) in London. Prior to KKR, he was a Partner with Helios Investment Partners an emerging and frontier market focused private equity firm. Before Helios, Kayode was with investment firm Investcorp in London focused on private equity transactions in Europe. Kayode started his career in 1999 with Deutsche Bank as a member of the Leveraged Finance team in London and holds an LLB (Laws) from University College London.