Bukie Adebo Umeano
Expertise
Strategy
Investing
Financial Services
Branding and Go-To-Market
Experience
WomensVCFund
Deloitte
Ogilvy Consulting
Board
Alaffia Health
Board Observer
Liquidly
Board Observer
Kasheesh
Board Observer
Acre Homes
Board Observer
Team
Bukie Adebo Umeano
Bukie is an Investment Principal at Anthemis, where she sources, evaluates, and executes early-stage deals across Fintech and embedded finance. Bukie constantly explores new and innovative applications for financial services and the ways that financial products intersect with several different industries.
Bukie began her career in consulting. She was a Strategy and Operations Consultant at Deloitte, helping organizations explore growth strategies like global expansion and digital transformation, and a Brand Strategy Director at Ogilvy Consulting, advising senior-level clients on brand positioning and go-to-market. She made her way into Fintech, by co-founding a credit-building business called Liza that was designed to help people build credit by formalizing loans between friends and family. Prior to joining Anthemis, Bukie was an investor at WomensVCFund where she invested in Series A and B businesses with women in senior leadership.
Bukie holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA from Emory University’s Goizueta School of Business.
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