Titi Odunfa Adeoye
Titi Odunfa Adeoye is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Sankore Investment, a Wealth Management firm that deploys capital across a range of asset classes, on behalf of individuals and institutions. Sankore also has an innovation division that focuses on building new ventures and enabling early-stage enterprises.
Titi Adeoye’s interest in financial markets began at the age of 13 and grew into a passion when she began investing on her own for the first time at 17. Experiencing the tech bubble at that age made her passionate about understanding the rules and strategies that guide investments. Titi’s skills in investment strategy were honed at firms like Goldman Sachs in New York, where she was able to learn extensively on asset allocation and portfolio optimization.
Titi completed a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, graduating summa cum laude from Howard University, and a Master of Business Administration in General Management from Harvard Business School. She is also a Certified Public Accountant who received the Gold Award for Highest Score in Washington DC.
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Titi’s strengths are creating strategies for wealth building, investment growth and preservation of wealth. She focuses on “alternative” asset classes like Venture Capital, Real Estate and Agriculture due to the higher potential for financial and social returns. She is an active venture and angel investor across various sectors. Titi’s Sankore was the first institutional investor in most of its investee companies and continues to play an active role as a provider of very early-stage capital to selected companies.
Before Sankore Investments, Titi was Head of Investment Strategy at Zenith Capital, the investment banking subsidiary of Zenith Bank Nigeria. In her role, she led teams responsible for investment management, research, and new product development within the asset management business.
At Goldman Sachs in New York, Titi served as a member of a team responsible for investment strategy, tactical asset allocation and portfolio advisory services for private funds. In this capacity, she developed research and investment expertise across a range of geographies and asset classes. Titi’s experience also includes restructuring, consulting, accounting and auditing with KPMG Consulting and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Washington DC.
Titi has spent the last few years investing in the future of wealth management, through the creation of a technology company called WealthTech. WealthTech is focused on enabling the wealth creation value chain in Nigeria using cutting-edge technology. Within the past two years, WealthTech has built a range of products for Sankore and the use of other institutions, including Automated Trading Algorithms, RoboAdvisors, Asset Allocators and AI-powered Banking Bots. To democratize access to Wealth Management, WealthTech launched Wealth.ng, Nigeria’s 1st Investment Marketplace in 2019, to provide investments and financial guidance to Nigerians.
Titi serves on the Boards of several companies and non-profits including Centurion Registrars, Verifi.ng, One Fi, Saunders Development Co, and the Nigerian Higher Education Foundation.
Connect with Titi Adeoye on LinkedIn and visit sankoreglobal.com to learn more about her company.