Alain Nkontchou

Alain Nkontchou is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Enko. He is the CIO of Enko’s debt strategies and advises the private equity team on macro-related issues.

Alain was previously a Managing Director for Global Macro Trading within the Proprietary Trading Group of Credit-Suisse in London, a group he joined in 2005 from JP Morgan, where he had held the same position since 2002. From 2001 until 2002, Alain was a Portfolio Manager at BlueCrest Capital Management, and prior to that, he spent twelve years with JP Morgan (Chemical Bank). Alain has traded fixed income, currencies, commodities and stock indices over his 30+ years of experience.

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Alain is an adviser to Laurent-Perrier, a leading champagne company listed on the Paris Stock Exchange, having been a board member there from 1999 to 2009. Alain is the Group Chairman of the Board for Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI), the largest bank in Africa by geographic footprint.  He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité in Paris and an MSc from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris.

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