Team
GFIRS was founded in the United Kingdom by a team with over three decades of combined experience across capital markets, development finance, Big 4 advisory, venture capital, and impact investment.
Ebuka Emebinah
Co-Founder & CEO.
Ebuka is a senior finance and risk professional with over 20 years of experience across capital markets, development finance, impact investment, Basel regulatory capital, and IFRS reporting in the UK, Nigeria, and internationally. He holds the CFA Charter and has an MPA in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University. His career spans Big 4 advisory at Deloitte, risk management at Santander UK, impact investment facilitation at Impact Investors Foundation Nigeria, and ESG advisory. He serves as Treasurer of the World Hepatitis Alliance in London, Independent Director at Milton Keynes City Council, and is a Newton Fundamentals Venture Capital Programme participant. Ebuka built GFIRS because he witnessed firsthand the information asymmetry preventing capital from reaching underserved organisations and set out to build the infrastructure the market was missing.
Samuel Prince Nwafor
Co-Founder & COO.
Samuel is a finance and strategy leader with 13+ years of experience across EMEA, LATAM, and North America. He is a Fellow of the ACCA, CFA Level III Candidate, MBA holder, and joint Doctoral Candidate at Durham University Business School and Emlyon Business School. He completed the Strategic Alignment Programme at Oxford's Saïd Business School and holds AI certifications from the University of Pennsylvania direclty relevant to the GFIRS plarform development. His career spans landmark roles at Andela ($200M fundraise, $1.5B valuation), Moove ($145M+ fundings ecured across multiple markets), and 54 Collective VC, as Head of FP&A across a 90+ company venture portfolio. At GFIRS, Samuel brings the FP&A architecture, institutional investor reporting experience, and multi-market scaling expertise that will translate the GFI Rating from a validated methodology into a self-sustaining global platform.