Neal is a versatile business leader who champions innovation and consistently sets course and strategy while delivering rapid, sustained and profitable growth. His reputation is one of reimagining companies on the brink of innovation thus allowing for rapid growth. He provides leadership and direction that disrupts and penetrates markets transforming expanding companies into market leaders.
Neal is an insightful cross-functional team builder and mentor capable of delivering goal-driven business strategies and business transformation while driving financial success. Neal is a possessor of strong business principals, acumen and leadership skills which enable him to identify resources and processes necessary to face day to day business customary and uncustomary business challenges head-on.
Neal is a seasoned and multi-faceted executive with both public and private company experience at both the chairman and CEO level. He is experienced in law, executive board participation and management, business development and continuous process improvement. He has consistently created and implemented goal-driven business strategies. As an astute C-suite Executive, he transforms operational chaos into emblems of synergistic efficiency effectuating strategic breakthroughs allowing for the penetration into new markets thus leading companies to the next level of efficiency.
Neal is uber comfortable working within high pressure, deadline-intensive environments, while adhering to sound business principles. He relies on continual process improvement to ensure program optimization and execution which leads to cost savings and revenue growth.
As a successful entrepreneur Neal has owned and operated many businesses to include: a Nissan car dealership, a waste management company and several health-care companies. His public sector tenure was in the energy sector having been the past Chairman/CEO of a publicly traded energy company. He has formally represented and performed as an agent for numerous American professional athletes negotiating contracts totaling in excess of $350,000,000 over a 20-year period.
Neal is an inventor who holds two gaming related patents and via these patents is a principal and majority shareholder in a going concern global gaming company. He serves currently as legal liaison between the Company’s patent, gaming, and regulatory attorneys. As a principal of Ishango Capital Partners, Neal uses his experience, knowledge and skill as a force-multiplier as necessary and required to support and enhance Ishango Capital Partner’s corporate mandates.
Neal is a proud father of four, as well as proud University of Southern California Trojan. Fight On!
Olivier is a talented serial entrepreneur with over 2 decades of experience in information technologies. He has honed his skills primarily in the investment banking sector while working in concert with portfolio managers and traders in order to platform and support advanced trading systems. His passion as a technologist allows Olivier to inject his expertise and knowledge into the various ventures that garner his curiosity and attention. Consistently, Olivier demonstrates his ability to improve efficiency, relevance and ROI by using and designing cutting-edged products and methodologies.
Olivier is no stranger to the “C-Suite” of both public and private companies. He has served as COO of a public company that provided global energy solutions, CTO of a startup offering real estate solutions, Managing Partner in a company involved in commodity trading and currently is the CTO and co-founding partner of a global gaming company.
Olivier’s prowess as a certified and renowned Azure Cloud expert, along with being a specialist in IT and IOT consulting and application development is invaluable to Ishango Capital Partners remaining “cutting edge” and relevant in today’s everchanging and dynamic technology environment. He leverages this intellectual capital in order to best assess and lead Ishango Capital Partners technology initiatives as Ishango Capital Partners actively pursues and engages new ventures within the African continent and beyond.
Olivier earned his Bachelor of Applied Physics at the University of Paris Jussieu and his Master’s in Computer Science at ESIG Paris. Born in France in 1977, Olivier is a “global citizen” who currently operates from the United States.
Adv. Dikina C. Wedi, is a bilingual (French/English), dual-qualified, multi-jurisdictional business lawyer, with more than 15 years in-house experience in international corporate, commercial and business law. Her almost two decades of professional counsel has produced exceptional results evidenced by having represented businesses to the highest levels of legal compliance enabling their optimal performance. She is a dynamic integer that has been consistently instrumental in the overall growth and success of her clients.
With an LLB (Law) degree and an LLM Master’s degree in international business law, Dikina commenced her legal journey as an in-house corporate lawyer in Paris, France. Across a diverse geographic landscape and fast evolving global market, Dikina initially developed her deep knowledge of commercial law and its practical application and operation in the pharmaceutical industry. She then transitioned into the sectors of construction, integrated logistics, bulk food distribution, facilities management, mining, oil & gas sectors across the African continent.
Throughout her career as corporate in-house counsel, Dikina has led and coordinated legal support teams in various multi-million US Dollar cross border African investment and development projects and ventures. A Pan-African at heart, Dikina is passionate about participating in the rise of Africa, and she continues to be an advocate and a driving force in the legal industry with regards to top level policy changes by championing, advising on and facilitating the success of Africa-focused investment and development projects and ventures.
As in house counsel and as a Partner in Ishango Capital Partners, when presented with any challenge Dikina applies her legal expertise along with her acute understanding of effective international business law to said challenge. In providing Ishango Capital Partners with focused and actionable, strategic legal strategies that can be executed within critical timelines concomitant with essential mandates, Dikina insures that Ishango Capital Partners is legally compliant and adheres to all applicable jurisdictional governance directives, regulations and mandates.
Noemi Muya is a lawyer and executive with extensive experience in strategic leadership, cross-border investments, and market expansion. She has a proven track record of building high-impact partnerships with stakeholders across the private sectors.
Holding a BA Law degree, LLB degree and pursuing an LLM in Banking Law, Noemi began her career in the immovable property sector, specialising in conveyancing at a leading law firm in Sandton, South Africa. She later served as legal counsel at an investment-focused legal consultancy, providing multi-jurisdictional legal and corporate advisory services to business development and investment clients across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
As a senior leader with a passion for women’s empowerment, she has led an organisation dedicated to advancing the inclusion and education of women across Africa. Her leadership and business experience also includes steering a company within the construction supply industry, overseeing operational growth, market expansion, and stakeholder engagement in complex, fast-moving environments.
Her career spans key sectors such as construction, mining, logistics, legal and private investment, with a focus on building commercially viable business ecosystems.
Noemi brings a dynamic blend of legal expertise and business leadership to support the firm’s investment strategy and regional growth objectives. With a keen eye for opportunity and risk, she plays a pivotal role in structuring impactful partnerships and advancing the mission of Ishango Capital Partners.
