Folorunso (Funsho) Allu is a Founding Partner of TIA Capital. He is based in Nairobi and oversees the East-African and Francophone business. Most recently Mr Allu was a founding partner of 46 Parallels 1 LLP a joint venture between TIA Capital and the JMH Group. Over a three year period Mr Allu along with his fellow TIA Capital partners built 46 Parallels, specialists in Private Debt in SSA-ex SA.

Before co-founding TIA Capital, Mr Allu headed the EMEA Hedge Fund business for AIG and PineBridge’s MultiStrategy Hedge Fund allocation business. His earlier career was at Goldman Sachs and Petercam Capital. Mr Allu has a First Class Honours Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol.