Senior Strategic Advisor

Tony Wainaina

Investment & corporate development

A business and financial advisor with 39 years of experience across East, South and Central Africa.

Tony’s client work spans agribusiness, agritech, manufacturing and private equity, with a focus on strategy, investment, corporate development and value creation. He was Managing Partner at Fanisi Capital for over seven years (to January 2020), managing two private equity funds with a combined size of US$78.7 million, investing in agribusiness, retail/consumer, healthcare and education in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda. As the founding CEO of Centum Investment Company (then ICDC) and Trans-Century Limited, he built and led management teams, structures and systems from inception, and has led the structuring, negotiation, acquisition and exit of several private equity investments across East, Central and Southern Africa. Earlier in his career he served as Resident Vice President, Corporate Finance at Citibank NA and as a management consultant at Price Waterhouse. Tony holds a BSc in Agricultural Economics from Wye College, University of London (later Imperial College) and an MBA from Georgetown University, USA. He has served on and chaired multiple boards across agribusiness, banking, insurance, manufacturing, logistics, technology and healthcare, and is the author of “The Investment Group Handbook: Chama to Conglomerate” (2nd edition, 2020).

How he can help

• Investment strategy & private equity
• Mergers, acquisitions & corporate development
• Agribusiness & agri-processing investment
• Industrial & manufacturing growth
• Board advisory & governance
• Business strategy & value creation