Experience

Keste Damena
• Plastics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Chief Operating Officer

  • Jan 2023 - Present

KleosAfrica
• South Africa
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Business Development Consultant

  • Nov 2019 - Feb 2023


The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

• First Line Buyer

  • May 2015 - Oct 2020

  Head of Programme for Living Seed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Project: The Affordable Medicines for Malaria {AMFm} Partners: The Global Fund, the Nigerian Ministry of Health (National Malaria Elimination Programme Taskforce {NMEP}, Society for Family Health {SFH} Head of Programme for Living Seed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Project: The Affordable Medicines for Malaria {AMFm} Partners: The Global Fund, the Nigerian Ministry of Health (National Malaria Elimination Programme Taskforce {NMEP}, Society for Family Health {SFH}



Nigerian Breweries Plc

• Nigeria
• Food and Beverage Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Consultant

  • Apr 2014 - Aug 2017

  Project: Life Progress Booster Client: Life Beer Brand Member of a 4 man team tasked with managing a Micro-Business Progress Grant (N320,000,000, 3 year tenure) Project: Life Progress Booster Client: Life Beer Brand Member of a 4 man team tasked with managing a Micro-Business Progress Grant (N320,000,000, 3 year tenure)



Deutsche Bank

• Germany
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst - Business Engineering/Risk and Control

  • May 2011 - Sep 2013

  Business Engineering - Global Business Services Intern staff providing support to the Business Process Re-engineering Unit of the Change Management Dept. and the Trade and Embargo's Filtering and Investigations Group. Risk and Control (Infra GTO) Market and operational risk and control of derivatives portfolio Business Engineering - Global Business Services Intern staff providing support to the Business Process Re-engineering Unit of the Change Management Dept. and the Trade and Embargo's Filtering and Investigations Group. Risk and Control (Infra GTO) Market and operational risk and control of derivatives portfolio



CardinalStone

• Nigeria
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Private Equity Analyst

  • Oct 2008 - Mar 2011

  KEY skills developed: Financial Modelling, Valuation, Investment Thesis development, Reporting, Research, Data Analysis Project Team Member: $ 40 Million Part-Acquisition of Oil Exploration Company by Client Project Team Member: $ 25 Million Mining Sector Venture Opportunity by Company (Venture Company Incubation) KEY skills developed: Financial Modelling, Valuation, Investment Thesis development, Reporting, Research, Data Analysis Project Team Member: $ 40 Million Part-Acquisition of Oil Exploration Company by Client Project Team Member: $ 25 Million Mining Sector Venture Opportunity by Company (Venture Company Incubation)