Deen Solebo

POSITION

CFO

Career Highlights

Deen Solebo “(Deen”) is Principal and CFO at Elektron Energy. Prior to joining Elektron, Deen was Head of Corporate Finance at Oando Plc, where he led all capital raising and M&A activities for the group. Prior to Oando, Deen was a founding partner and Managing Director at Yellowtree Partners. In his role, Deen led origination of development projects in energy and infrastructure in West and East-Central Africa. Prior to Yellowtree, Deen was a Director of Global Energy Structured Finance at WestLB AG, where he advised energy-focused private equity firms, energy project developers, utilities and IPPs on project and leverage finance. Deen’s energy infrastructure financing expertise includes conventional power generation, renewables, electric transmission, mid-stream oil and gas projects.

Prior to WestLB, Deen worked at Rothschild Inc., in the Restructuring Advisory business, wherein among other roles; he helped advise on the successful reorganization of United Airlines Inc. (then the 8th largest bankruptcy in U.S. history).  Prior to Rothschild, Deen was a banker at Goldman Sachs and Giuliani Capital.

Education:

Yale University (MBA), American University (Bachelors)