Partner & Chief Growth Officer / Capital & Transactions
Ime
Mike-Akpan
“Ime leads Crimson Oak's Capital and Transactions practice, pairing over a decade in investment and merchant banking with a relentless focus on relationship management to help African businesses raise the right capital on the right terms.”
Ime is a strategic wealth and asset management specialist with a passion for driving growth and transformation through exceptional relationship management. With more than eleven years across investment and merchant banking, she has a track record of building enduring wealth for private clients and delivering measurable outcomes for the businesses she works with, leveraging deep expertise in networking, negotiation, and client engagement.
Her formative years were spent advising private clients and institutions on portfolio construction, structured products, and multi asset allocation. That vantage point shapes how she reads a business today, through the eyes of the investor who ultimately writes the cheque.
At Crimson Oak she partners with founders and executive teams preparing for institutional capital. She refines the equity story, tightens financial architecture, and runs disciplined processes from investor readiness through term sheet to close, drawing on a network that spans development finance institutions, family offices, and growth capital funds active across West Africa.
Notable Engagements
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Over eleven years across investment and merchant banking, advising private clients and institutions on portfolio construction, structured products, and multi asset allocation.
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Leads capital raise engagements for growth stage African businesses across equity and structured debt.
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Runs investor readiness programmes for founders approaching Series A to C and institutional strategic rounds.
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Manages cross border transactions involving development finance institutions, family offices, and growth capital funds.
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