Kristofer Madu, who has Jamaican and Nigerian heritage, has been named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Finance.<\/p>\n
At 25 years old, he is a private equity investor and, according to Forbes, focuses on technology, as well as media and entertainment investments at TPG Investments.<\/p>\n
The youngster, who was born in the United States to a Jamaican mother, Dr Dainia Baugh, and Nigerian father, Professor Ernest Madu, spent much of his childhood in Jamaica when his family moved back to the country.<\/p>\n
This year, Madu was involved in a US$7.6 billion acquisition of DirecTV from AT&T at TPG.<\/p>\n
He previously served as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley\u2019s M&A Group, where he is credited with contributing to deals including Ozempic\u2019s US$17 billion acquisition of Catalent and a US$10 billion acquisition of Immunogen by AbbVie\u2019s, Forbes says.<\/p>\n
Aside from releasing music and touring as a rapper, Madu also founded a non-profit called \u201cWhen We Grow Up\u201d.<\/p>\n
The organisation says it aims \u201cto\u00a0provide underserved youth with direct access and early exposure to high-impact, high-paying career paths \u2014 like finance, technology, medicine, law, and more\u201d.<\/p>\n
Madu was featured along founders and other investment bankers in the elite group of 30, picked out by 30 under 30 alumni.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristofer Madu, who has Jamaican and Nigerian heritage, has been named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}