Joel shares his time between London and Abuja and joined Konexa as part of the founding management team and serves as a director of the Konexa development platform and its portfolio development assets. Joel has over 10 years of experience in the energy sector in Africa. Joel serves as a Principal at Industry Capital, one of Konexa’s investors, supporting the Africa portfolio. In this capacity, Joel also serves as the Managing Director of Nigeria Solar Capital Partners a 100MW AC solar development together with Globeleq and ARM-Harith in Bauchi State, Nigeria.

Previously, Joel headed the fixed income research team for Sub-Saharan Africa at Bloomberg and then went on to work at Western Asset Management.

Joel holds a BA in History from University College London.

Joel is a panellist at the Africa Investment Exchange: Power & Renewables meeting on 17 November 2020.