Mr. Gibian is the CEO of Emerging Capital Partners.  Since founding ECP in 2005, Mr. Gibian has overseen the firm’s growth from 15 professionals to 28, expanded its African platform from two offices to six and its assets under management from $400 million to $1.6 billion.  Previously, Mr. Gibian had been a managing director at EMP Global.  Prior to joining EMP, Mr. Gibian was an executive director for Goldman Sachs (Asia).   Mr. Gibian serves as a director of numerous public and private companies and has a particular interest in Quaker education. Mr. Gibian received a BA (honors) from the College of Wooster, Ohio and an MBA from the Wharton School.

Emerging Capital Partners

Emerging Capital Partners is the largest fund manager working across the African continent with offices in Johannesburg, Tunis, Casablanca, Abidjan, Lagos and Douala.  ECP currently manages six funds totalling over $1.6 billion and has made over 50 investments in companies doing business in more than 40 African countries.  ECP invests in a diversified manner across a variety of sectors including telecom, financial services, natural resources and infrastructure.  Through its track record in managing funds in Africa since 2000, ECP has demonstrated that capital can be successfully deployed in Africa by achieving rates of return over 30% in well managed companies that operate using world class corporate governance standards.