Jeff Bamford is a Partner with Crowe Infrastructure Africa
and based at the firm’s headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
Jeff’s successful career as an
international banker spans over a period of 30 years and involved senior
management roles in retail banking, mortgage banking and international banking
in Europe, Asia and Africa for various international and regional commercial
banks. Starting his banking career in the 1970s from Nairobi, Kenya where he initially
held various management positions with local banks and subsequently built First
National Bank of Chicago’s (now JP Morgan-Chase) presence in East Africa, he
moved on to assume Vice President/(Area) Operations Manager and General Manager
positions in Tokyo, Hong Kong, London and Lagos for leading international
commercial banks. He returned in the mid 1990s to Kenya as the Deputy General
Manager for CFC Bank Limited.
Since then, Jeff has established a
number of consulting and financial services firms in East Africa, focusing
predominantly on large-scale real estate projects and associated structured
finance.
Jeff Bamford holds and has held
various Non-Executive Director positions as a Board Chairman or Board Director.