Rank #1673
Adebayo Ogunlesi
Net worth $2.5B
Private Equity · United States
- Born
- Dec 20, 1953
- Age
- 72
- Source
- Private Equity
- Residence
- New York, New York
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; JD, Harvard Law School; Bachelor of Arts, Oxford Univeristy
Net worth over time
Biography
- Adebayo Ogunlesi cofounded Global Infrastructure Partners, a New-York based private equity firm that was acquired by BlackRock in 2024.
- Prior to the deal, worth $12.5 billion, GIP had more than $100 billion in assets under management with interests in the energy, transport, digital infrastructure, and water and waste management sectors.
- He still remains chairman and CEO of GIP, and is now a senior managing director at BlackRock.
- Prior to starting GIP, Ogunlesi spent 23 years in the investment banking unit of Credit Suisse and earlier was an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a law firm in New York.
- Born in Nigeria, he attended Kings College Lagos, a prominent boarding school in the country.
- His father, Theophilus Oladipo Ogunlesi, was reportedly the first professor of medicine in Nigeria.
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