Adebayo O Ogunlesi

Adebayo ("Bayo") O. Ogunlesi is Chairman and Managing Partner of Global Infrastructure Partners. Global Infrastructure Partners is a $1 billion Joint Venture between Credit Suisse and GE launched in May 2006 to invest in global infrastructure assets. Mr. Ogunlesi is also a Senior Advisor at Credit Suisse. Global Infrastructure’s chairman and C.E.O., the Nigeria-born deal maker Bayo Ogunlesi, is the lead director at Goldman Sachs. As part of the January 2024 deal, Ogunlesi will join BlackRock’s board. Prior to his current role, Mr. Ogunlesi was Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of the Investment Banking division of Credit Suisse, and was a member of both the Investment Banking Management Committee and the Management Council of the bank. He also chaired the Chairman's Board of the Investment Banking division. Prior to that, Mr. Ogunlesi was the Global Head of Investment Banking for Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). Over the course of this 23 year career at Credit Suisse, Mr. Ogunlesi has advised clients on strategic transactions and financings in a broad range of industries and has worked on transactions in North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Ogunlesi was an attorney in the corporate practice group of the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. From 1980-81 he served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Ogunlesi received his B.A. with the first class honors from Oxford University, his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association. He was a lecturer at Harvard Law School and the Yale School of Organization and Management, where he taught a course on transnational investment projects in emerging countries.