Marlon Chigwende

Marlon has 30 years' business experience, almost 20 of which has been focused on Africa. He was founding co-managing director and head of The Carlyle Group's maiden Sub-Saharan Africa Fund and the founding managing director for Standard Chartered Private Equity Africa. In both instances, he started and developed pan-African private equity businesses from scratch. Prior to establishing Standard Chartered’s African Private Equity business, Marlon was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs in London and before that at JPMorgan Chase & Co for many years. Marlon trained as an Actuary and holds a BSc (Hons) Degree in Mathematics and Actuarial Studies