Jonah George

Chief Finance Officer (CFO) with 18+years of global financial leadership experience driving growth, go-to-market planning and execution, fundraising, operations, profitability and delivering measurable KPI's across Health Tech, Healthcare financing, Real estate, Manufacturing, and Consulting. I have excelled in fast growing start-ups, scale-ups, listed companies, large multinationals, VC/PE-backed businesses and founder-led organizations. I am at my best in fast moving organizations that face professional challenges, and offer a mix of Executive Leadership, Board of Directors, Investors and Investment Bankers interactions. Skillful in analyzing business operations, trends and commitments to support its strategic direction. Some of my key strengths are on high-growth, high impact business across multiple industries in sub-Saharan Africa. An early stage investor and an advisor to several startups/scaleups using Grants, Venture Capital and Private Equity financing. Some of my key accomplishments include: - Fundraising over $200M in investments across early-stage, growth-stage, M&A, project finance, structured finance, equity and debt capital. - Bringing innovative access-to-capital structures to market through asset securitization and other forms of off-balance sheet funding, thereby strengthening the BL and increasing capital efficiency by diversifying sources of funding. - Unlocking multi-million dollar grant and concessionary funding for ESG and Impact initiatives. - Achieving consistent margin improvement through predictive budget and cash flow management. - Increasing ARPU by implementing tech-enabled, data-driven risk management strategies that minimized financial risk exposure.