WAGANE DIOuF

Managing Partner
wagane@meceneinvestment.com

Wagane is responsible for the overall management of the company. Wagane joined Mecene (AfriCap Microventures) in 2001 as Investment Officer. He was subsequently promoted to Fund Manager in 2003. He has been instrumental in building the AfriCap portfolio, managing several exits and the recapitalization of the Fund in 2007 from $14 million to $50 million. Prior to joining Mecene Investment, he spent his career in the Information Technology industry in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In 1989 Wagane founded Nelwlink Benelux, a Software Company based in Brussels, that was subsequently sold to Attachmate Corporation.

Prior to joining AfriCap, Wagane held Senior Vice President for International Business positions with software companies and Internet startups such as Dun & Bradstreet Software, Per-Se Technologies, Best Doctors and Singlesignon. Com. Wagane holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Ecole Superieure de Gestion (Paris), Bachelors degree in Finance from Ecole Superieure de Gestion (Paris) and an Executive MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta). Wagane is fluent in French and English and has good command of Spanish and Portuguese