Uche Ogboi CFA
About
Uche Ogboi CFA is from Nigeria. Uche is currently Co-Founder & CEO at Germinate. Uche also works as Fractional CFO / COO at Strategic Advisory & Fractional Executive Consulting, a job Uche has held since Jun 2023. Another title Uche currently holds is Board Member at Multiple Organizations. In Uche's previous role as a Chief Executive Officer at Lori, Uche worked in until Mar 2023. Prior to joining Lori, Uche was a Chief Operating Officer at Lori and held the position of Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that, Uche was a Principal at EchoVC Partners, based in Nigeria, SSA from Oct 2018 to Jun 2019. Uche started working as Associate Principal at EchoVC Partners in Feb 2017. From Aug 2009 to Feb 2017, Uche was Investment Banker at Citi, based in Lagos. Prior to that, Uche was a Accountant at Edirol Europe Ltd., based in London, United Kingdom from Aug 2007 to Jul 2009.
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Uche Ogboi CFA's current jobs
Leading high-impact projects across multiple regions and value chains at Germinate, an integrated agro-industrial company on a mission to build a sustainable, prosperous, and self-reliant Africa. We operate across the entire agriculture value chain—including Primary Production, Processing, Trading, Services, and Advisory—championing sustainable agribusiness models that generate shared value for farmers, investors, and communities.
Provide C-suite level support to high-growth companies across agriculture, financial services, infrastructure, and tech, with a focus on capital raising, operational transformation, and strategic expansion. - AFEX (Agriculture Commodities Exchange & Trading Company) - Mar 2025 - Present Leading corporate restructuring and supporting the company's equity and debt capital raise from local and international investors. Also responsible for streamlining financial operations to enhance scalability and investor readiness. - Evercorp (Multi-sector Investment Holding Company) - June 2023 - May 2024 Partnered with founder to design and launch operating model, systems, and governance structures. Built and scaled the leadership team across financial services, energy, food, and tech subsidiaries and led transaction diligence, structuring, and acquisition of four companies, assuming board representation post-close. - B2B Tech Scale-up (Top African SaaS Company) July 2023 - October 2023 Advised on European market entry strategy in collaboration with global consultants. Strategy contributed to margin expansion and geographic revenue diversification.
- Durandell (Agriculture) - Aquaculture ecosystem platform - Mar 2025 - Present - RexCredit (Fintech) - http://www.rexafrica.com - Dec 2021 - Mar 2025 - GO54 (formerly WhoGoHost) - http://www.whogohost.com - Jun 2023 - May 2024 - SystemOne (Healthtech) - http://www.systemone.id/ - Oct 2018 - Jun 2019 - LifeBank (Healthtech) - https://lifebank.ng/ - Jan 2018 - Jun 2019 - Riby (Fintech) - https://riby.me/ - Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Uche Ogboi CFA's past jobs
As COO at Lori, I oversee all internal and external operations to optimize moving billions of dollars worth of cargo through the logistics platform annually. I focus on driving execution and transformation as well as implementing processes, systems and structure to drive scale across the organization.
I grew the firm’s portfolio both across the African region and globally investing in companies across various sectors including logistics, healthcare, fintech, telecoms and agriculture and worked closely with founders to achieve growth whilst building a sustainable business.
I worked on deals that led to the deployment of over $8 billion of capital across various regions including Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe across structured, project financing, capital markets and advisory roles. I also managed the bank’s SME fund and was involved in structuring several inaugural initiatives of the bank such as its agriculture lending initiative.