Team
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Our People
Mohammed Garuba
Managing Director
Mohammed Garuba
Managing Director
Mohammed is the Managing Director at CardinalStone Real Assets (CRA) and brings to the role over two decades of experience from a background in asset management and securities trading.
Prior to CRA, Mohammed co-founded CardinalStone Partners and served as Managing Director, Asset Management Division.
Prior to this, he served as the pioneer Director of Equity Securities at Renaissance Capital where he was responsible for driving the company’s equities trading and sales business in Nigeria, and as Managing Director / Chief Operating Officer at Zenith Securities Limited.
Mohammed holds an MBA from London Business School. He also attended the Advanced Management Development Program of Harvard Graduate School of Design and is an alumnus of Yale University and Harvard Kennedy School. He holds a B.Sc. in Insurance from the University of Lagos.
Laolu Alabi
Executive Director
Laolu Alabi
Executive Director
Laolu is an Executive Director at CRA, and brings to the role nearly two decades of experience from a background in real estate and investing.
Prior to joining CRA, Laolu headed the real estate division at African Capital Alliance where he served as the Fund Manager for the USD165 million Capital Alliance Property Investment Company (“CAPIC”) opportunistic Fund, and was responsible for the funds’ investments across strategy, asset management, value creation, and exits.
He was also an Associate Investment Director with Silk Invest Limited, a frontier markets-focused multi-strategy investment manager in the UK and an Investment Analyst at Stanbic IBTC
Laolu holds an MSC from Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, and a B.Sc. in Banking and Finance from the University of Lagos.
Ndubuisi Okoye
Analyst
Ndubuisi Okoye
Analyst
Ndubuisi is an Analyst at CRA, where he focuses on all stages of the investment process and provides support for value addition in development projects.
Ndubuisi has a B.Sc. in Estate Management from University of Nigeria, Nsukka