Mariame is a global financial services leader with over twenty years of experience in the US and Caribbean markets. A results-oriented leader with a track record and passion for transforming mission-driven organisations, Mariame has spent the last decade leading companies including two years as Managing Director and President of a US headquartered fintech firm focused on digital assets and seven years as President and Chief Executive Officer of First Global Bank Ltd., a commercial bank operating in Jamaica.

She spent seven years as a private equity investor partner at Portland Private Equity, the largest private equity fund management company focused on the Caribbean region. Mariame also worked as a Strategy Consultant for five years in Bain & Company’s New York office and for two years with McKinsey & Company’s Atlanta office.

She is the Board Chair of TEACH Caribbean, an educational NGO she co-founded in 2006 with seed financing from Rhodes Trust to provide access to quality education for economically disadvantaged youth.

She holds a BSc in Electrical Engineering from MIT, an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPhil in Economics from Oxford University which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. She also serves on the Board of Directors of several private and publicly listed firms in regulated sectors (energy, banking, insurance).