Mr. Ogunbiyi is a founder and Executive Director of Afren, and has also served as an Associate Director and Special Assistant to the previous Chairman, as well as having held roles previously as General Counsel for the Group and Director of all of Afren’s subsidiaries.  He is responsible for business development, strategy and growth at Afren and has led Afren’s negotiating team in Nigerian acquisitions and debt financings. He has extensive experience of private equity, acquisition, structured, trade and project finance, and public and private partnerships in the African energy and infrastructure sectors in particular.

Prior to joining Afren, he was the Deputy Head of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP’s Africa Practice.  Before this, Mr. Ogunbiyi spent over four years with Herbert Smith’s International Finance and Banking Department.  He holds Legal Qualifications from the universities of London (King’s College), Passau (Germany) and Oxford.