Tsendai Chagwedera

Tsendai is a Principal & Regional Head, East Africa at EchoVC. Prior to joining EchoVC, Tsendai worked at TPG covering Africa private equity. His responsibilities included conducting due diligence on potential investment opportunities, leading deal execution, and monitoring portfolio companies. Previously he worked at Emerging Capital Partners, an Africa-focused private equity fund based in Nairobi, Kenya. Prior to Emerging Capital Partners, Tsendai was an Associate at H.I.G. Capital in Boston, where he completed growth private equity transactions in the technology space. Tsendai began his career at The Blackstone Group as an Analyst with the technology M&A team in Boston. Tsendai graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.