Enko Capital

Alain Nkontchou serves as CIO of the Africa Public Debt strategy and advises the private equity team on macro issues, while Cyrille Nkontchou leads origination, fundraising, and portfolio management for private equity. The private debt strategy is co-headed by Sidoine Viagbo and Saad Sheikh, and the private equity team is led by partners Eric Soubeiga and Alix Pinel. This separates day-to-day portfolio decisions while keeping macro views shared across the firm.

Enko operates from London, Johannesburg, Abidjan, and Port Louis — a footprint that spans UK regulation, Southern African sourcing, Francophone West African origination, and Mauritius-domiciled fund management. The Abidjan office, regulated by CREPMF, gives Enko direct access to the WAEMU zone, a region many London-only Africa funds cannot penetrate effectively.

Enko is a partnership-run asset manager, not a single-family office. The Nkontchou brothers co-founded the firm and serve as managing partners, but the vehicle manages third-party capital across regulated funds in the UK, South Africa, Côte d'Ivoire, and Mauritius.

The private equity arm takes minority stakes in mid-market African growth companies, targeting pre-IPO opportunities with holding periods of four to five years. The public debt strategy runs an absolute-return book of sovereign and corporate debt, trading local and hard-currency instruments across 21 African countries ex-South Africa. A third strategy, private debt, sits between them, offering structured credit exposure.

Enko does not disclose a formal co-investment program. Its private equity strategy focuses on direct minority stakes, while the public debt book trades listed and OTC instruments. The firm has not publicly indicated a fund-of-funds or GP-commitment allocation.

Enko Capital Management LLP is regulated by the FCA in the UK. Enko Capital Investments (PTY) Ltd is regulated by the FSCA in South Africa. Enko Capital West Africa is regulated by CREPMF in Côte d'Ivoire, and Enko Fund Management Limited is regulated by the FSC in Mauritius.

Enko has a sustainability policy and employs a Chief Sustainability Officer, Rachel Cochran, who leads ESG and impact initiatives, particularly for the private debt strategy. The firm does not operate a separate philanthropic foundation, but it positions its private equity strategy as ESG-focused.