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www.ceotodaymagazine.com 78 CEO Today United Kingdom Awards 2018 INVESTMENT AFSANE JETHA Managing Partner & CEO Alta Semper Capital LLP ABOUT AFSANE JETHA Afsane Jetha is the Managing Partner & CEO of Alta Semper Capital, which she co-founded in 2015. Alta Semper Capital invests flexible and strategic capital in healthcare and consumer opportunities across select growth markets. Alta Semper has invested in the market-leading medicated cosmetics company in Egypt, the largest pharmacy retail in Nigeria, and the largest group of oncology and radiology clinics in Morocco, making the firm one of the most active private equity investors in the healthcare space in Africa, in terms of deals closed in the last 18 months. Prior to founding Alta Semper, Afsane spent nearly five years with the Duet Group as the Managing Director of the firm’s African Private Equity platform, investing nearly US$200m across Sub-Saharan Africa. While at Duet, Afsane led the largest private equity transaction into Ethiopia, Dashen Brewery, as well as, sourced and executed on several consumer-facing transactions in Ghana, Uganda and Cote D’Ivoire. Prior to Duet, she was at GI Partners where she executed several transactions in the healthcare, consumer and real-estate sectors. Earlier in her career, she was part of the Consumer Team at Permira in London which followed her time at Wasserstein Private Equity and Merrill Lynch in New York. Afsane holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Economics, from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Afsane has strong personal and professional ties to East Africa. FIRM PROFILE Alta Semper is a dedicated growth-markets private equity firm founded in 2015 by Ronald Lauder, Richard Parsons and Afsane Jetha. The founders share a vision to leverage multinational corporation talent, together with their global networks, to create a prime sector- focused investment platform in Africa. This thesis is predicated upon investing in leading healthcare and consumer businesses across the continent as well as selected enabling and disruptive technologies applicable to the healthcare and consumer sectors. It is intended that the enterprises in which the firm invests will benefit from operational change as well as result in positive social impact in the geographies in which they operate. Since its inception, the Alta Semper team has invested on behalf of its founding shareholders and a variety of European financial and government institutions. www.altasemper.com CONTACT Sofia Efstathiou, Investor Relations E: sefstathiou@altasemper.com T: +44 (0) 20 71 000 670