About
Roger B. Jantio
Investor and merchant banker, Washington, DC.
About
Investor and merchant banker, Washington, DC.
Roger B. Jantio is an investor and merchant banker based in Washington, DC. In 1989 he founded Sterling Merchant Finance Ltd, where he is Senior Managing Director and CEO, advising governments, international organisations and corporations across emerging markets.
Over more than three decades he has structured financing in telecoms, aviation, power, mining, oil and gas, transport, agriculture, water, healthcare and education — principally in Africa, and also in Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
He chairs Condona Capital LLC and is President of the Sterling Africa Growth Fund and the African Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
He is also an active AI and frontier-technology investor, from angel through Series B, and writes regularly on how Africa's AI economy should be financed.
His early career spanned international banking, a role as Senior Consultant at J.E. Austin Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Assistant Vice President at Meridien International Bank in New York (1989–1990).
Trained in Paris and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Now making the case where capital allocation gets decided, on both sides of the Atlantic.
In discussion, Republic of Madagascar
Emerging-market deals aren’t closed over email. Sponsors, ministries and lenders want someone who has stood on the site and asked the awkward question.
Three decades of that means a lot of time in transit.
In transit