Meet the Team

Stefan Allesch-Taylor CBE FKC

• Investor, entrepreneur, and 35+ years UK-FCA regulated finance veteran

• Founded, scaled and exited businesses across multiple sectors

• Fellow and Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship (2016-2025), King’s College London

• Recognised start-up, scale-up, frontier and emerging markets specialist

• Co-founded, served as CEO and Chair of asset management and lending businesses with $14bn+ AUM

• 20 years’ experience in C-suite leadership in commercial banking, investment banking and asset management

EXECUTIVE CHAIR & DIRECTOR, FOUNDER

• Leads global gold sourcing and trading operations with over a decade of commodity experience

• Former CEO of award-winning FMCG business scaling turnover from £500k - £50m

• 10+ years’ experience managing global supply chains and volume procurement from both South America and Africa

• Served on the Boards of several African NGOs providing entrepreneurial interventions for millions of beneficiaries

• 20+ years’ international experience across tech, finance and advisory

• Track record scaling go-to-market and strategic partnerships for global listed companies

• 4+ years focused on Web3 and blockchain- based capital markets

• Leads business development, digital ecosystem and communications

• Structures and manages SigraFi’s loan note programme and leads strategic partnerships

• Chartered accountant with 20 years’ experience advising and running companies across multiple sectors and jurisdictions

• Specialisms include; audit, strategic, financial and operational risk mitigation, systems implementation, analysis and modelling; financial controls and financial reporting

• Led $650m+ international M&A transaction

• Led the due diligence team securing $100m financing for non-bank financial lender (CEE, South America, Africa) MFG

• Global Ambassador for the United Nations convened Global Tailings (Mining) Management Institute
  Expert in responsible investment and mining with 20+ years’ experience across ethical supply chains, climate risk and safety

• Special Advisor to the Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030

• Former Secretary-General at the Council on Ethics for the $200bn Swedish National Pension Funds

• Previously with Norges Bank Investment Management

• 30+ years in global capital markets, including 18 years at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), including Global Head of Sustainable Finance and Investment Strategy, Head of Emerging Markets Strategy, and Head of International Primary Markets. Established the LSEG Africa Advisory Group to support the development of African capital markets

• Led emerging market transactions raising over $100 billion for governments and corporates

• Pioneered offshore local-currency bond programmes, facilitating over $11 billion in capital raised

• Founded London Stock Exchange Group's Africa Advisory Group; drove sustainable finance initiatives across the continent

• Former foreign exchange trader at NatWest Markets and Citi, specialising in spot and cross-rate trading