Kodwo (Kojo) Mills: Managing Partner

Kojo is the founder and CEO of Invictus Africa Group, an investment company that partners financial and strategic investors seeking opportunities in SubSaharan Africa.

Kojo is the former acting CEO and a co-founder of Shanduka Group, a South African investment company that has a multi-industry portfolio of 30+ investments valued in excess of $1 billion. He was also previously the Managing Director of Shanduka’s R300 million private equity fund, Shanduka Value Partners Fund I. He joined the investment banking division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Inc. (“DLJ”, now Credit Suisse First Boston) and was seconded to African Merchant Bank Limited as DLJ’s representative. Kojo has been extensively involved in sourcing, structuring, implementing and monitoring various private equity investments in African markets and has over fifteen years of investment banking experience. Prior to joining DLJ, he was employed as a financial analyst at Salomon Brothers Inc. He is currently a director of numerous companies including Invictus Africa Group, Shanduka Group and Stanbic Bank Ghana, the Ghanaian subsidiary of the Standard Bank Group of South Africa.

Kojo has an economics degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kojo is half Ghanaian and half American. He is married with two children.

Boikai Cummings: Partner

Being a serial entrepreneur, Boikai started a web design company, as well as an events management company during his matriculation at Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia. Upon graduation with a degree in Business Administration, Mr.Cummings worked as a management consultant with Monitor Group throughout the South African Development Countries. During his tenure at Monitor Group Mr.Cummings worked with governments, distribution companies, and major retailers. In 2009 Mr.Cummings relocated to the United States to become the Director of International Affairs for Navigators Global in Washington D.C. In his capacity as Director Mr.Cummings helped the firm acquire new clients and relationships in Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania.

In 2010 Mr.Cummings moved back to South Africa to begin his tenure at Shanduka Group, a diversified investment holding company, where he met Managing Partner Kojo Mills. He played an integral role in the group’s overall strategy. Mr.Cummings was also apart of the team that completed the purchase of the Master Franchise Agreement of McDonalds in South Africa; and was an integral part of the team that secured reserve power capacity for ESKOM through the Shanduka-Aggreko partnership in Mozambique.