Executive Profile
Industrial technology executive. Infrastructure architect for Africa's next decade.
Grounded in deploying IoT at enterprise scale across Europe, and driven by a conviction shaped through African diaspora networks — that the right structural interventions, applied at the right entry points, produce outsized and durable returns.
Thesis
Africa's infrastructure gap is not a development problem — it is a structural one. The continent's most persistent inefficiencies cluster around a handful of high-leverage entry points: post-harvest loss, cross-border payment friction, digital sovereignty, and preventable disease burden. Each represents a measurable drag on economic output and a corresponding opportunity for well-sequenced, commercially viable intervention.
The initiatives in this portfolio are designed to operate at precisely those entry points — structured from the outset around financial viability, methodical de-risking, and measurable impact. They are aligned with the AfDB's NAFAD Framework, which provides both the institutional architecture and the continental mandate for this class of investment.
The underlying conviction is straightforward: the right structural interventions, applied at the right entry points, produce outsized and durable returns — for investors, for communities, and for the continent.
Portfolio
Agriculture
Integrated cold chain logistics across the Lake Tanganyika and Lake Victoria basins — targeting the 40% post-harvest loss that erodes farmer incomes and regional food security before produce ever reaches a market.
↗ 40% post-harvest loss — addressable
Agriculture
Domestic green fertiliser manufacturing to reduce import dependency and chip away at the continent's $56bn annual fertiliser bill — keeping more value inside African supply chains.
↗ $56bn annual fertiliser import bill
ICT
A cross-border trade settlement infrastructure to bring down the 8.7% average transaction cost — unlocking an estimated $5bn in annual friction currently absorbed by intermediaries rather than producers and traders.
↗ 8.7% avg. transaction cost → structural reduction
ICT
Purpose-built data centre infrastructure to strengthen digital resilience and build the foundation for data-driven public services — keeping sovereign data on the continent.
↗ Digital sovereignty + public service infrastructure
Healthcare
Affordable, scalable healthcare solutions leveraging silver nanoparticle technology — with the added benefit of addressing water hyacinth proliferation in Lake Victoria. A dual-impact approach that improves both public health outcomes and lake ecosystem viability simultaneously.
↗ Dual impact: public health + lake ecosystem
Approach
01
Not aid-dependent. Every initiative is structured to generate measurable commercial returns — because lasting transformation requires honest economics.
02
Honest sequencing over speed. We move deliberately, validating each structural assumption before committing capital to the next phase.
03
Genuine common ground between the lived knowledge of diaspora networks and the continental mandate of institutions like the AfDB.
Outreach
Raphaël is reaching out to explore where diaspora initiative and the Bank's institutional reach might find genuine alignment. If you are working at the intersection of African development finance, infrastructure, and measurable impact — he would welcome the conversation.