Okomboli Ong’ong’a comes to Dogwood as a senior impact investing officer. He joins the Community Investment team and is responsible for impact investments, which include program-related and mission driven investments – both made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social impact alongside financial returns alongside Dogwood’s grantmaking efforts.
Okomboli is an investment manager with nearly 20 years of experience in principal investing. He started his career as a management consultant with PwC and thereafter transitioned to business intelligence and data analytics at John Hancock Financial Services, Inc. (now part of Manulife, Inc.). After business school, Okomboli joined Praxair, Inc. (now part of Linde PLC) where he structured and integrated several acquisitions and strategic joint ventures in the industrial gas distribution segment.
From 2009 to date, Okomboli has taken on operational investment roles in multiple sectors: initially basic materials and consumer-facing businesses for Trans-Century PLC, a Kenyan investment holding company, and subsequently agribusiness and commercial/industrial real estate at Norfund, Norway’s development finance institution.
Between 2014 and 2020, Okomboli was the Senior Fund Partner at a real estate private equity fund, Phatisa’s Pan African Housing Fund (PAHF), where he oversaw investment, construction, and property management activities in Kenya, Rwanda, and Zambia. PAHF supported 290 housing units and 100 fully-serviced plots spread across five greenfield developments.
After a professional sabbatical during the COVID19 pandemic, Okomboli joined LISC Fund Management where he oversaw the lifecycle modeling for twelve impact-first small business and real estate investment funds, including leading the design and structuring of four place-based blended capital funds.
Okomboli is an Eisenhower Fellow (Africa program, 2016) and a veteran (US Army Reserve). He studied undergraduate economics at Middlebury College and earned a master of business administration degree at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
