Michael Till

About

Michael’s family history is peppered with people who have lived and worked in developing countries, including his parents who lived and worked in East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania). After leaving Durham University with a degree in Economics and passing his Chartered Accountancy exams, he packed his bags too: spending time first at Shinyoung Securities in Seoul, and then at Arthur Andersen in London and Buenos Aires. Michael first came across CDC in 1990 and over the years, it stuck in his mind as one of the very few organisations building sustainable profitable private sector enterprises in the developing world. Five years later he decided to join them. He moved to Latin America in 2000, where he lived for six years, and took on responsibility for several new and follow-on investments, and for managing and fully divesting CDC’s equity portfolio worth US$250m throughout the region. This is where he learned most about realising maximum value from equity investments through different parts

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