In 2009, GIP acquired the majority in London Gatwick Airport in a deal worth £1.455 billion. He currently serves as Chairman and Managing Partner. In July 2006, Ogunlesi started the private equity firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a joint venture whose initial investors included Credit Suisse and General Electric. From 2004 to 2006, Ogunlesi was Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of CSFB. Also in 2002, he served as a member of Credit Suisse's Executive Board and Management Committee. In 2002, Ogunlesi was appointed Global Head of CSFB's Investment Banking Division. From 1997 to 2002, he was the Head of the Global Energy Group of the by then renamed Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). At First Boston, he worked in the Project Finance Group, advising clients on transactions and financings and has worked on transactions in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In 1983, Ogunlesi joined the investment bank First Boston as an advisor on a Nigerian gas project. Ogunlesi was an attorney in the corporate practice group of the New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, where he had been a summer associate while studying for his M.B.A. Career įrom 1980 to 1981, Ogunlesi served as a law clerk to associate justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. During his time at Harvard, he was on the Harvard Law Review. from the Harvard Business School, which he pursued at the same time. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. with first class honors in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University in England. Ogunlesi went to King's College, Lagos, a secondary school in Lagos, Nigeria. Ogunlesi, the first Nigerian professor of medicine at University of Ibadan. Ogunlesi hails from Makun, Sagamu, Ogun State in Nigeria. Ogunlesi was the former head of global investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston before being promoted to chief client officer and executive vice chairman. He is currently chairman and managing partner at the private equity firm Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Ogunlesi CON (born December 20, 1953) is a Nigerian lawyer and investment banker.
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