Adebayo “Bayo” O. Ogunlesi is a Nigerian lawyer and investment banker. Ogunlesi is currently Chairman and Managing Partner at the private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Ogunlesi was the former head of Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston before being promoted to Chief Client Officer and Executive Vice Chairman.

Early life

Ogunlesi went to King’s College, Lagos, a secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria. He received a B.A. with first class honors in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in England. In 1979, he received a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, which he pursued at the same time. During his time at Harvard, he was on the Harvard Law Review.

Career

From 1980 to 1981, Ogunlesi served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Ogunlesi was an attorney in the corporate practice group of the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he had been a summer associate while studying for his M.B.A.

In 1983, Ogunlesi joined the investment bank First Boston as an advisor on a Nigerian gas project. At First Boston, he worked in the Project Finance Group, advising clients on transactions and financings and has worked on transactions in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. From 1997 to 2002, he was the Head of the Global Energy Group of the by then renamed Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). In 2002, Ogunlesi was appointed Global Head of CSFB’s Investment Banking Division. Also in 2002, he served as a member of Credit Suisse’s Executive Board and Management Committee. From 2004 to 2006, Ogunlesi was Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of CSFB.

In July 2006, Ogunlesi started the private equity firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a joint venture whose initial investors included Credit Suisse and General Electric. He currently serves as Chairman and Managing Partner.

In 2006, GIP bought London City Airport. In 2009, GIP acquired the majority in London Gatwick Airport in a deal worth £1.455 billion. The Nigerian press has given him the nickname, “The Man Who Bought Gatwick Airport.” GIP also owns Edinburgh Airport, which they bought in 2012, and Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, which they bought in February 2018.

Age

67 years

Personal life

Ogunlesi has been married to British-born optometrist, Dr. Amelia Quist-Ogunlesi since 1985. They have two children.

Awards and honors

Recipient of The International Center in New York’s Award of Excellence.

Memberships

• Harvard Business School: Member, Board of Dean’s Advisors
• Harvard Law School: Member, Leadership Council of New York
• Harvard University: Member, Global Advisory Council
• NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: Member, National Board of Directors
• NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital: Member, Board of Trustees
• Partnership for New York City Fund: Member, Board of Directors
• King’s College Old Boys Association: Member

Works and publications

• Ogunlesi, Adebayo (1979). The Basic Human Needs Approach to Development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Law School. OCLC 81062298. Submitted to: Professor C. Clyde Ferguson, Jr. [for the] Seminar: Legal Problems of the New International Economics Order (Harvard third year paper)

Net Worth Of Adebayo Ogunlesi

Looking at the portfolio of the investments of GIP of which Adebayo Ogunlesi is a shareholder in, you will agree that he is worth a fortune. as of 2020 his net worth is estimated to be $14.1 million dollars

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Quotes Of Adebayo Ogunlesi

“Professional success is about ability, hard work, and relationships. Who you know, and how you connect to them is an incredible determinant of how you would succeed.”

“Poor infrastructure not only inhibits economic growth but quite frankly, it stands in the way and affects the quality of the lives of the people in the continent.”

“Africa needs to recognize that it is in competition for investment capital.”

“Each generation of Africans faces a unique set of challenges that defines it.”

“…Use your entrepreneurial drive, uncompromising integrity, and a passion for excellence in everything you do, and apply all of those skills, talents and capabilities to address the challenges the continent faces.” Quote source

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It has been a very good year for Russia’s richest, despite the threat of heightened sanctions against the country.

Currencies, stocks and bonds rallied in 2019 as the Federal Reserve led global central banks in lowering rates to support flagging growth.

Vagit Alekperov added $6.2 billion since the start of the year. The 69-year-old is the chairman of Lukoil PJSC, Russia’s largest independent oil producer. He has a $22.3 billion fortune.

He’s followed by energy moguls Leonid Mikhelson and Gennady Timchenko, who hold Novatek PJSC, Russia’s biggest liquefied natural gas producer.

Sorce: Bloomberg

Alice Walton Forbes Net Worth

• Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
• She has focused on curating art, rather than working for Walmart like her siblings, Rob and Jim.
• In 2011, she opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.
• Crystal Bridges features works from the likes of Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell and Mark Rothko.
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• Alice Louise Walton is an American heiress to the fortune of Walmart. In September 2016, she owned over US$11 billion in Walmart shares.
• As of September 2020, Walton has a net worth of $68.8 billion, making her the 12th-richest person and the richest woman in the world.
• Alice Walton was born in Newport, Arkansas on the 7th of October, 1949. Walton was raised along with her three brothers in Bentonville. 
• She graduated from Bentonville HS in 1966, and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas with a B-A. in economics and finance.

Alice Walton Forbes Net Worth And Biography

Alice Walton was an equity analyst and money manager in her early career. She was also a broker for EF Hutton. In 1988, she founded Llama Company, where she was president, chairwoman, and CEO. 

Walton is one of the first people to chair the Northwest Arkansas Council and she also played a major role in the development of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority recognized Walton’s contributions to the creation of the airport and named the terminal the Alice L.

Personal life

Walton married a prominent Louisiana investment banker in 1974 at age 24, but they were divorced 2½ years later. According to Forbes, she married “the contractor who built her swimming pool” soon after, “but they, too, divorced quickly”.