Lydia Ofori, CFA, CAIA

Always find ways to expand the pie. This is why I am very keen to see how we can make private markets more accessible using AI & Blockchain

Financial • Sales/Bus Dev

London, UK

Skills

Experience

CEO @Hunter Labs Technologies • Co-Founder

Fintech using AI & Blockchain tech to make private equity more accessible

CEO @V Cap (Victoria Lion Partners) • Co-Founder

Platform marketplace (private assets, alts) and AI SaaS for asset managers

Amazing things Lydia's made

In 2016, I left corporate with a strong passion to uncover value in private markets by identifying managers that are not well known but add value to investment portfolios. That was the underlying thesis of my first business – Victoria Lion Partners. After 5yrs of running that business, I wanted to scale insights & value discovery using technology. Further I wanted to resolve the lack of investor led secondary markets that truly utilised converging technologies of AI and Blockchain to help investors get liquidity. I formed an initial foundational team to test out the idea and that was a success. Of the back of that, I authored a foundational paper on how financial institutions could embrace AI and blockchain to reduce opaqueness in deal / opportunity selection and increase accessibility of private markets to non-institutional investors. The paper has been submitted to the Journal of Alternative Investments for publication following peer review. I am very proud of my contribution.

Education

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

Executive Education • 2019 - Present

CFA Institute

CFA Charterholder

CAIA Institute

CAIA Charterholder

The Robert Gordon University

MSc Financial Management

The Robert Gordon University

BA(Hons) Business Studies