Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Akin is the founder of Feleman Limited, an Africa-focused impact investment and advisory firm. Akin serves as a Non-Executive Director of Splash Mobile Money, a mobile payments company in West Africa.

He spent the first fifteen years of his career in management consulting and the corporate world. He engaged public sector clients at Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture in Washington, D.C., and held strategic positions with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae over the years.

Akin started his career at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C., in the Technology and General Services Group. He led analytical research projects in support of IMF member country strategies.

Akin holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics with a minor in Political Science from Union College, New York, and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Dartmouth College. He is also an alumnus of the World Bank Institute, and a member of the ASPEN Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE).