Catalyst Strategy

Our Leadership

Partners with decades of execution experience at the intersection of public policy, private capital, and industrial strategy.

Dr. Olayeni Makinde

Managing Partner

Over 20 years structuring sovereign debt and executing public-private partnerships across Sub-Saharan Africa. Former Lead Strategist at a Tier 1 Development Bank.

Samuel Otiwe

Head, Industrial Policy

Specializes in spatial industrial logic and value chain optimization. Has authored over a dozen accepted policy frameworks for federal-scale manufacturing zones.

Chukwudi Nwachukwu

Director, MSME Growth

Expert in enterprise aggregation modeling. Former private equity principal focused on scaling agribusiness micro-entities into export-ready SMEs.