Investment One Global Advisors

Your pathway to the world

Building trusted partnerships

Helping you to make the right move

About Us

Investment One Global Advisors Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Investment One Financial Services Limited in Nigeria. We were set up as an international subsidiary to develop products for pan-African impact investors and support the growth of Investment One’s financial services across the value chain.

We were incorporated in 2021 (the first international subsidiary of the Investment One Group) as part of a strategic shift to enhance local market access for international investors and build a go-to provider of impact investment finance and financing. We aim to provide sources of growth capital for small to medium-sized entrepreneurial businesses in the impact and development space alongside a wider service offering that supports investment in West Africa and other sub-Saharan markets.

We have a team of experienced professionals who have charted the path of emerging market focused Investment Banking in the UK, on both the buy-side and the sell-side, providing portfolio services, structured finance, corporate finance advice and secondary market trading across multiple assets classes.

Our mission is to assist Africans, business owners and the investment community to optimise investment opportunities, manage investment risks, make informed financial decisions and enhance wealth creation across the board. In so doing, we intend to create close and sustainable partnerships with our clients within international and local markets.

Services

Following authorisation, our initial product offering will span:

VENTURE CAPITAL

PRIVATE debt and funding solutions

STRUCTURED FINANCE and INNOVATION

Introductory and advisory service

Executive team

Nicholas Nyamali is the Group Managing Director of Investment One Financial Services Limited. Nicholas started his career as a Barrister & Solicitor with Haruna & Co. He then worked with Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) before joining GTBank Plc, working at various times in the legal, corporate banking and corporate finance teams. He thereafter worked with Barclays Capital, London and Mckinsey & Co, London before returning to Nigeria to set up Investment One Financial Services Limited (then GTB Asset Management Limited, a former subsidiary of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.). He holds two Masters’ Degrees in Law and Economics as well as an MBA from the London Business School. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, UK and a member of the Institute of Securities & Investment, UK.

David is the Chief Operating Officer of Investment One Global Advisors. He is a Chartered Accountant with experience in assurance and latterly corporate finance before leaving practice to work in the financial services sector in the early 1990s. He was the European Finance Director for Garban Plc and, following the merger, ICAP Plc with subsequent responsibility for the back-office functions and prudential regulation (including extensive negotiation with the FSA). He later joined Exotix in 2007 as the Chief Operating Officer, managing the group’s expansion and regulatory relation including the establishment of regulated business in the US and the UAE, as well as the development of the UK businesses (broking and asset management).
Following his departure as managing partner of Exotix, he became as a consultant to asset managers and capital raisers on compliance matters, regulatory applications and business practices before joining Investment One Global Advisors in 2021.
David holds a Bsc in Chemistry from Newcastle University.

Ike is the Head of Special Opportunities and Distressed Debt of Investment One Global Advisors. Ike started his career at Calyon before moving to Pantheon Ventures and then ending up at Exotix Partners. At Exotix, he began in the equities division starting as a sales trader and then subsequently working closely on different transactions with Private Equity before moving to the Fixed Income desk and it was at this point that he was made Partner – the youngest at the firm. In his later years at Exotix, he became more of a hybrid, involved in transactions across all the different desks – Fixed Income, Equities and Structured Finance.
Following his departure from Exotix Partners, he moved to Nigeria to oversee the running of an energy business (Petrochin Ltd) and more importantly to build a healthy soft drinks brand (Alibi Health drinks) primarily for the African continent but also for the emerging markets in general.
Ike holds a BA Hons in Economics from Newcastle University.

Leading Nigerian financial services firm, Investment One Financial Services Limited announces investment in fintech innovator Paycode.

2 December 2021