Diana is a frontier markets professional providing business and transaction advisory services to SMEs within Sub Saharan Africa. This support entails deal origination, investor readiness, deal structuring, capital raising, investor relations and portfolio company support for SMEs.

Diana has over 16 years work experience in the capital markets and private equity/venture capital industries in Sub Saharan Africa. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Private Equity Support (PES) – an Enterprise Support Advisory organisation. PES works with Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) to provide investor readiness support to SGBs seeking to raise early stage financing or reposition for sustainable growth. PES has raised over USD 5.34M in capital for SMEs over 4 years, and worked in providing pre and post investment support to 117 SMEs from across 17 African countries, 48% of whom were women owned or led entities.

Diana is an SME Growth Manager consultant for KIEP 250+, a USD 21m World Bank and Kenya Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and Enterprise Development (MOITED) initative, managed by a consortium of NIRAS and Intellecap.

Diana has previously worked in asset management at Britam Asset Management where she focused on Private Equity and Real estate segments. She was also the Head of Investor Relations at Fusion Group Africa, a regional Private Equity firm domiciled out of Guernsey, raising over USD 40m for a first time team, on a first time fund, investing in East Africa.    

Prior to that, Diana set up and led the Investor Relations department at the Nairobi Securities Exchange, including managing the public relations and communications aspects.  

Diana is an advocate of the high court in Kenya. She passed her CFA Level I exams, has a Bachelor of Laws degree. She is currently completing her Masters in Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge.