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Jane Kaggwa Snow

Managing Partner, Impala Investment Holdings
Jane Kaggwa Snow

Jane Kaggwa Snow is the Founder of Impala Investment Holdings – the first Africa-based search fund. She is the Founder and CEO of Aquavita Holdings – the leading provider of water as service across East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania). Prior to raising her search Fund, Ms. Kaggwa executed private equity investments in Africa at Emerging Capital Partners and has advised clients on leveraged buyouts, equity and debt capital raising activities and mergers and acquisitions in the leveraged finance division of Citi Global Markets in New York. Ms. Kaggwa also worked for Bank of America’s middle market corporate banking division, working with middle market businesses to facilitate business transformations through implementation of restructuring initiatives. She holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management and a Bachelor’s degree from Northeastern University.

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Breakout 3
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3:45 pm
Aldrich 108

Entrepreneurship through Acquisition

Unlocking Value and Powering African SMEs through Acquisition Entrepreneurship
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Entrepreneurship through Acquisition

Although Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (ETA)— where entrepreneurs search for and acquire small, stable, cash-flow positive businesses with the intention to grow them over time—is becoming more popular, few “search funds” have been established in Africa. Indeed, there has been limited data to support the case for investing in African search funds and the benefits of this novel asset class. Still, ETA remains uniquely positioned to unlock value, find new talent, and accelerate the growth and development of SMEs—particularly family businesses—across the continent. This panel will focus on three key questions: (1) What makes Africa ripe for the growth of search funds? (2) How can the North American search fund model function on the continent? (3) What are the dynamics of operating and growing businesses under this model?

America/New_York
Mar 25, 2023 3:45 PM
Aldrich 108
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