The Most Relevant and Efficient Investment Banking House
At Capstone, we don’t have "employees". We have strategic partners who appreciate the maxim that delivering value and satisfaction to our clients is key to our success and to their personal satisfaction
The team comprises uniquely qualified individuals with strong local insight and operational track-record coupled with extensive international experience.
We adopt a “hands-on” approach and with the required independence (“let people do what they can do best”) in executing rigorous due diligence process, pre-investment, coupled with strong post-investment project management capabilities.
Our team consist of diverse professionals with the right mix of skills necessary to harvest opportunities.
Opoku-Gyamfi Boateng ("Boat")
Boat is the Executive Chairman of Capstone Capital Limited. Boat is currently the Chairman of both uniBank Ghana Limited and StarLife Assurance Company Limited. He has served in a number of capacities including a member of the Steering Committee of the Municipal Finance and Management Initiative of the Government of Ghana, a Negotiating Consultant for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
Boat started his career at Databank as a Financial Analyst and by dint of hard-work and professionalism, rose through the ranks to become an Executive Director before resigning to set up Capstone.
Boat has acquired rich experience in both the capital and money markets locally and abroad, specialising in corporate finance and advisory services to the following sectors: construction finance, mortgage, manufacturing, mining, financial sector, telecommunication, broadcasting financing, He has also developed requisite expertise in varied and diverse projects including financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, valuations, financial re-engineering, project analysis and evaluation, initial public offerings (IPOs), privatisations and bond structuring.
Boat has also undertaken a number of transactions in some African countries including:
- Privatisation of Uganda Telecom in Uganda.
- Bond structuring assignment in Rwanda,
- Feasibility study for a financial institution in The Gambia
- Fund raising assignment in Kenya and Tanzania
- Information Memorandum to raise funds for an oil and gas project in Nigeria.
Boat holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Ghana. He worked as a Teaching and Research Assistant at the University of Ghana and also worked as a trainee accountant at Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), a firm of Chartered Accountants.
Oladimeji Adedara
Ola was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Capstone in December 2012. As CEO, he is responsible for the day-to-day operation of Capstone. Ola is a professional chartered accountant, investment banker and educationist.
Prior to joining Capstone, he has more than twenty (20) years professional working knowledge in Finance, Credit, Money market operations and capital market activities. Ola was an Executive Director of Finance and Administration (later Finance and Treasury) of Databank Group overseeing the Finance and Treasury functions of Databank operations both within and outside Ghana. He supervised the Accounts of twelve (12) companies within the group.
He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). He holds B. Sc degree in Banking and Finance from Ondo State University (now Ekiti State University), Ado Ekiti, Nigeria.
He is a Director of Landmark Micro-finance Limited and Christ Legacy International School, both in Ghana.
Lawrence Gyekye Birikorang – Senior Investment Executive
Lawrence is a senior investment executive at capstone capital limited with a focus on driving the sales and marketing team. He is also responsible for providing investment advice to asset management clients, portfolio structuring, monitoring and rebalancing, assist in product development, assist in fund management assignment as well as maintaining intelligent market information about competitors and competing product.
Prior to joining capstone, he worked with databank for more than eight years with an in-depth knowledge of the financial market and a good relationship management skills. Lawrence holds an MBA in finance from the Wisconsin international university college and a bachelors' degree in population and family life from the university of Cape Coast.
He is a Director of Awins Transport Company
Benedicta Tandoh - Senior Investment Executive
Benedicta is a senior investment executive at capstone capital limited responsible for providing investment advice to asset management client and prospects, assist in fund management assignments, client portfolio structuring, monitoring and rebalancing. She also helps in new product development, maintain intelligent market information about competitors and competing products. Prior to joining capstone she worked with databank asset management service limited as an investment advisor with the responsibility of providing investment advice signing up client and maintaining good client relationship. She was the unit head of the databank asset management operation (damsel) before joining the investment advisory team. She has over ten (10) years’ experience in the banking and finance industry
Benedicta has a degree in Bachelor of Management Studies (BMS) from the University of Cape Coast and an EMBA in Finance from the University of Ghana, Legon She worked with Standard Chartered Bank Cape Coast Branch before joining the Databank.