Diana Njuguna

Diana is a Managing Director at CrossBoundary Advisory and most recently served as the Southern Africa Investment Advisor to the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) for 5.5 years through a mandate implemented by CrossBoundary. She has over 16 years of experience in private credit, including senior and mezzanine debt, private equity, and asset management. Before joining CrossBoundary, Diana spent 7.5 years with Vantage Capital’s mezzanine debt team in Johannesburg, where she was responsible for originating, assessing, structuring, executing, monitoring, and exiting transactions in East Africa as well as South Africa. She was also actively involved in fundraising for Fund III and IV. Prior to that, Diana worked at TransCentury in Kenya, where she evaluated various medium and long-term private equity investments in Sub-Saharan Africa. Diana also worked at Goldman Sachs in the UK, and Centum Investment Company Limited in Kenya. Diana is a 2010 Rhodes Scholar and holds an MBA and an MSc in African Studies from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Accountancy & Finance from Birmingham City University. She is also a CFA® charterholder and an ACCA fellow.