Alain Nkontchou
Managing Partner, Enko Capital Management LLP
Board Chairman of Ecobank Group
Alain is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Enko Capital Management, a pan-African asset management company created in 2009. Alain was Managing Director for Global Macro Trading within the Proprietary Trading Group of Credit-Suisse in London. He joined the group in 2005 from JP Morgan, where he had held the same position since 2002.
Extensive experience trading fixed income, currencies, commodities and stock indices over his 25+ year career.
From 2001 until 2002, Alain was a Portfolio Manager at BlueCrest Capital Management.
Before joining BlueCrest, Alain was at JP Morgan (Chase Manhattan Bank) from 1989, and prior to then, was a research engineer on speech recognition systems for Matra Communication in France.
Since 1999, he has been a board member of Laurent-Perrier, a leading champagne company listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
In October 2014, Alain was appointed non-executive board member of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI).
Alain holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité in Paris and an MSc from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris.