Portrait of Adebayo Ogunlesi

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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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