ABOUT

Establishing a new standard.

Who stands behind it and why Pivot57 exists.

The people behind it

Gwen Ansah Smith, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pivot57

Built on institutional investment experience.

Senior institutional investment leadership across African and emerging markets, on both the manager and allocator side.

Gwen Ansah Smith

Founder & Chief Executive

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Advisors: Senior advisors; Senior executives and investment leaders whose careers span the highest levels of global investment and capital markets, with deep African market experience and decades of capital allocation and investment strategy across cycles.
Team: The build; A multidisciplinary team with backgrounds spanning institutional investment, market intelligence, technology, data and research, bringing together deep domain expertise, analytical rigor and technical depth with direct experience across African markets.

Why we exist

Pivot57 is building the intelligence infrastructure for institutional investment in Africa.

We bring market information from across the continent into one consistent, comparable, decision-grade framework. Investors use it to assess markets, price risk, identify opportunity and deploy capital with confidence.

African markets gain a common basis through which global capital allocators can view, measure and understand them.

Our ambition is to set the standard for African investment intelligence.

Changing how capital sees Africa.

The name

Pivot

The shift capital makes when African markets are sized on the same evidence as any other.

1957, when Ghana’s independence opened the era of African self-determination.