ADEBAYO OGUNLESI:Meet the Nigerian who led Gatwick Airport Acquisition!

A Nigerian, Adebayo Ogunlesi, has acquired the London Gatwick Airport as the new owner. The Gatwick deal is a £1.455 billion agreement with BAA Airports Limited. Adebayo Ogunlesi, 56, is the chairman and managing partner, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), an independent investment fund based in New York City with worldwide stake in infrastructure assets,is the new owner of the London Gatwick Airport.

The Nigerian who led Gatwick Airport Acquisition attended prestigious King’s College, Lagos. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He was a lecturer at Harvard Law School and the Yale School. Ogunlesi, whose father was the first Nigerian-born medical professor, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and then earned law and business degrees from Harvard.

Ogunlesi has lived in New York for 20 years and is active in volunteer work. But he also cultivates his ties to Africa. He informally advises the Nigerian government on privatisation. The late Manute Bol, former NBA center, visited Ogunlesi in his Park Avenue office, seeking donations for a charitable foundation in former basketball star Manute Bol’s homeland, Sudan. Ogunlesi walked the late Bol around the hallways, introducing him to junior staff. It was just another day in the Bayosphere.

Prior to his current role, he was executive vice chairman and chief client officer of Credit Suisse, based in New York. He previously served as a member of Credit Suisse’s Executive Board and Management Council and chaired the Chairman’s Board. Previously, he was the Global Head of Investment Banking at Credit Suisse. Since joining Credit Suisse in 1983, Ogunlesi has advised clients on strategic transactions and financings in a broad range of industries and has worked on transactions in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

In the US, he is known as the Nigerian who clerked for late Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall, who they say was unable to pronounce his name and quickly dubbed him Obeedoogee. Colleagues and friends call him Bayo. http://africancelebs.com/adebayo-ogunlesi-owner-gatwick-airport/

Aareonakakanfo:
laudate this your Adebayo ogunlesi picture is laaaarge ooo.We don't even have space on the page

Aareonakakanfo:
laudate this your Adebayo ogunlesi picture is laaaarge ooo.We don't even have space on the page

Aareonakakanfo:
This is a bigger one

IlekeHD:

Aareonakakanfo:
Ilekehd what's the difference between you and the character who was trying to derail the thread yesterday.


What's all these for God sake?

modath:


See enzhoiment!

ProfShymex:


I hope he isn't the same one that went to visit an inconsequential emir up North?

Yorubas don't need charlatans as Kings, especially a throne like Ife's throne.

IlekeHD:

9jacrip:



Fork and Knife to eat a good looking pounded yam and a sexy plate of egusi?

Ate'le owo mi o kin tan mi je, ma fi se nkan rere sugbon ma tun fi je okele bi iru eeyi sikun mi.

Aareonakakanfo:
Ilekehd what's the difference between you and the character who was trying to derail the thread yesterday.
What's all these for God sake?

IlekeHD:







Se ibinu e ti lole?

Aareonakakanfo:

Mii binu tele ooo. mo ko fe gba yin ni imoran wipe ke gbe oro onje yi lo si abala onje nairaland.

IlekeHD:

Ko n seounje mi ni yen. Ori google ni mo ti ri.
Owo ni mo fi n je iyan mi abeg.
Se ibinu e ti lole?

Aareonakakanfo:

Mii binu tele ooo. mo ko fe gba yin ni imoran wipe ke gbe oro onje yi lo si abala onje nairaland.

laudate:

Uh?? You lost me.

ADEBAYO OGUNLESI cont'd:

Country of Origin: Ogun State, Nigeria

Entrepreneurship: Founder, Global Infrastructure Partners and Owner of Gatwick Airport

Adebayo Ogunlesi 56, is the chairman and managing partner, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), an independent investment fund based in New York City with worldwide stake in infrastructure assets,is the new owner of the London Gatwick Airport.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is currently Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners, a $15 billion joint venture whose initial investors included Credit Suisse and General Electric. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Goldman Sachs. Prior to his current role, he was Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of Credit Suisse, based in New York. He previously served as a member of Credit Suisse’s Executive Board and Management Council and chaired the Chairman’s Board.

Additional Services to the UK:

Adebayo often gives lectures at London Universities, Oxford and Cambridge students at Invest in Africa summits. He also has a 75% stake in London City Airport, and Biffa Limited, a UK based waste management company. https://www.migreat.co.uk/en/africans/london/news/uk-migrant-entrepreneur-adebayo-ogunlesi-n6232

IlekeHD:


It's nothing important. Grandpa here was lecturing me.

Aareonakakanfo:
Lol while i was thinking you guys will ignore ilekeh's foodie comment, 9jacrip tu gbe ti tie de.

IlekeHD:


Ko n seounje mi ni yen. Ori google ni mo ti ri.

Owo ni mo fi n je iyan mi abeg.

9jacrip:


LOL! Bro, e ma binu simi jare, it is just hard to ignore that sexy food.
I can't wait for the next festival to eat the egusi cooked with ori, omi igbin, no salt and some soft iyan.

9jacrip:


Oh o da.
E mo pe eyin alako'we yi, e si'un ti e le dan wo.

Aareonakakanfo:

Who is grandpa?

laudate:


Picture: Adebayo Ogunlesi and his wife, Adenike

IlekeHD:


rich men beautiful wife.....what does SHE do?

IlekeHD:


Mo ro pe ebi lo n pa

Oya back to the topic with ya...