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Mezuo Nwuneli

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Independent Director at MTN Nigeria
📍 United States

Mezuo Nwuneli is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sahel Capital, a private investment firm focused on agribusiness across sub-Saharan Africa. He has over two decades of experience in private equity and corporate finance and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mezuo has co-founded several ventures, including AACE Foods and Sahel Consulting.

A self-described "Faith Driven Investor, " Mezuo frequently collaborates with his wife, Ndidi Nwuneli, on entrepreneurial ventures. They co-founded AACE Foods and Sahel Consulting and were the first couple to deliver the keynote address at Harvard Business Schools Class Day. In 2021, he received the HBS Alumni Achievement Award, the schools highest honor.

He has a passion for lifelong learning, a value instilled by his parents who were university professors.

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Experience
12 Years
Current Role
Independent Director
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United States
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African Agribusiness
He is a co-founder of Sahel Capital, an investment firm dedicated to transforming Africa's food and agribusiness sector, and AACE Foods, a food processing company.
Impact Investing
His firm's portfolio companies have directly impacted over 208, 000 smallholder farmers, and he serves on Nigeria's National Advisory Board for Impact Investing.
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Career

Work history

1-2025
Independent Director
MTN Nigeria
3-2023
Independent Director
Hygeia HMO
9-2013
Managing Partner
Sahel Capital
Non-Executive Director / Co-Founder
Sahel Consulting
Non Executive Chairman / Co-Founder
AACE Foods
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Private Equity in Africa I Mezuo Nwuneli, Managing Partner, Sahel Capital. Featured in YouTube
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Education
2001 - 2003
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Harvard Business School
1991 - 1995
B.Sc.
Carnegie Mellon University
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