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Tayo Femi-Fowode
Partner
Tayo is a founding partner and Chief Investment Officer of Vinawel Capital Management LLC. Prior to joining, he was a Business Integration Leader for a Fortune 500 company participating in post-merger integration of multi-billion dollar acquisitions. Prior to that, Tayo worked as Project Manager in the asset management division of Rolls-Royce Energy, and Managing Partner at TFO Investments LLC, a boutique private equity firm. Tayo has been investing in emerging market government securities for over a decade with average annual returns in the low teens. Tayo is a second-generation Nigerian-American, mostly growing up in Texas.
Tayo holds an MBA with a concentration in Strategy and Finance from Columbia Business School. He also holds a master’s of science in chemical engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York, and a bachelor’s degree (magna cum laude) in chemical engineering from Prairie View A&M University outside of Houston, Texas.
Education
M.B.A., Columbia Business School
M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New York
B.Sc., Chemical Engineering (magna cum laude), Prairie View A&M University