Matteo Stefanel

Matteo has a successful track record in private equity and investment banking spanning 25 years and focusing specifically on Growth Markets and Financial Services.

He is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Apis Partners LLP, which manages Apis Growth Fund I and Apis Growth Fund II - two private equity funds focused on investing in financial services companies in Africa and Asia, as well as a number of smaller investment vehicles focused on Fintech investments more globally.

Formerly a partner at The Abraaj Group where he was responsible for a number of Abraaj’s investee companies (10+), including Network International (payments), Saham Finance (insurance), and Jordan Ahli Bank (banking).

Matteo has been a board director of over 25 companies and completed over 110 transactions in Europe (including CEE), South Asia, the Middle East and Africa, throughout his career at Abraaj, at MIG ($7.4bn AUM) where he was briefly CIO, and at Deutsche Bank as MD and co-Head of Emerging Markets in the Financial Institutions Group.

Matteo has twice been a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Financing and Capital (2012-14 and 2014-16).

Matteo graduated from Queens College, the University of Oxford, with an MA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

He is married, with three children.