Efe Shaire is the Group CEO of AVA Capital Group. He is an entrepreneurial executive with extensive C-suite exposure and a proven track record in helping clients achieve corporate and capital market objectives effectively. He has demonstrated success in leading international and multi-disciplinary teams, encompassing clients, advisors, regulators, and internal stakeholders, to deliver both financial and non-financial goals.
Efe has over 20 years of professional experience spanning investment banking and capital markets, and has led teams and executed transactions across Nigeria, East, and Southern Africa. He also has sectoral experience covering Financial Institutions, Industrials, Telecoms Media and Technology (TMT), and FMCG, with experience in the full spectrum of investment banking products – M&A, Equity Capital Markets, and Debt Solutions.
He was instrumental in building, growing, and positioning Absa’s East Africa Investment Banking (IB) franchise. He successfully closed six transactions across M&A, ECM, and Debt Solutions in the TMT, FI, FMCG, and industrials space for clients including Vodacom Group, Vodacom Tanzania, ARM Cement, and Etisalat (now 9mobile). He was a senior member of the Sub-Saharan Africa investment banking team responsible for driving origination and execution of transactions across core IBD products in West Africa.
Efe graduated from Ambrose Alli University, Edo State, in 2001 with a B.Sc. in Biochemistry. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder and also possesses a certificate in Strategic Management: Connected Strategy from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, which he obtained in August 2020. He has also completed the Oxford Advanced Management and Leadership program from the Saїd Business School, University of Oxford.
