Funke Okubadejo is the Managing Partner at Grene Capital and brings over two decades of private equity experience, including 15 years specializing in African real estate. She has led investments in landmark commercial, retail, and hospitality assets valued at more than $700 million, including Heritage Place—the first LEED-certified commercial green building in Lagos—Jabi Lake Mall in Abuja, and a pan-African business hotel platform.

Before establishing Grene Capital following a successful spinout from Actis, Funke oversaw Actis’s West Africa real estate strategy. In 2023, she led the development and close of the Nigeria Real Estate Income Fund (NREIF), attracting significant Nigerian pension capital and advancing the firm’s Africa strategy for core real estate. She now leads Grene Capital in providing institutional investors access to high-quality, stabilised African real assets with predictable cash flows and attractive risk-adjusted returns.

Earlier in her career, Funke held investment roles at African Capital Alliance and began her professional journey at Arthur Andersen (now KPMG). She is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos, as well as a Master’s in Finance from London Business School.

With prior her experience in assurance and business advisory, she has rounded skills to add value at both strategic and operational levels to management and project teams in attaining set business objectives. She is also an experienced board director having served on various boards over the past two decades. She is currently a director in ENEO, the Cameroon based electricity utility and sits on the Advisory Board of the Nova Westmont Institute of Tourism and Hospitality. Funke contributed to Actis’s Macro Forum which is a global grouping that reviews macro trends and served on the firm’s Inclusion and Diversity Committee.