Stephen Murray

Managing Director

2020 - Current

CrossBoundary is a frontier markets investment firm with a mission to unlock private capital to drive strong returns and lasting growth in underserved markets. We deliver transaction advisory services in frontier markets and fragile states on the buy side and sell side. We also operate direct investment platforms dedicated to specific industries and objectives.

Non-Executive Director

2021

Advisory Board Member

2018 - 2021

Strategic and financial advisor to an early stage communications company utilizing proprietary software, analytics and hardware connecting to existing satellite communication infrastructure to make Internet of Thing technology accessible to remote areas.

Head Of Partner Institutions

2019 - 2020

Managing Director, Co-Head of Africa and Middle East

2016 - 2020

Aldwych is a special situations boutique investment bank focused on capital markets, M&A advisory, energy, power, agriculture, and infrastructure project financing in the domestic US, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Strategic Advisor

2018 - 2020

Strategic and financial advisor to a holding company of African manufactured, inspired and designed fashion and apparel brands. Made in Africa is a leader in promoting apparel and textile manufacturing in Africa; creating jobs, building skills, and celebrating African and African Diaspora culture.

Strategic Advisor to CEO

2015 - 2016

UNIFORM is a technology-driven clothing company founded by award-winning social entrepreneur Chid Liberty, under the creative direction of platinum-selling rapper and fashion designer, A$AP Ferg. The brand explores modern minimalist and luxury-infused streetwear while referring to long lost foundational elements of the culture. Our brand and styling service is built on collaboration. UNIFORM has collaborated with everyone from Shaq to Tiger Mom, Amy Chua. With each customer’s monthly drop, UNIFORM's signature +1 program produces and donates a school uniform to a child who otherwise could not attend school. According to research from MIT's Poverty Action Lab, donated school uniforms increase attendance by up to 62%, increase test scores by 0.25 standard deviations, and for every three young girls that receives a free uniform, two will delay their first pregnancy. All UNIFORM apparel that is sold or donated is made In Africa in order to provide jobs to working mothers in countries ranging from Liberia to Uganda. We measure our impact based on the number of children we support in furthering their education, the number of women we help to employ in ethical factories, and our general influence on fashion's culture in the movement from exploitation to justice.

Chief Investment Officer

2007 - 2016

Pan African Capital Group, LLC provides investment banking services to the African markets. Building on a core of business that leverages its relationships with a number of key companies in Africa, we provide advice and capital to increase our partners’ ability to compete on a global basis and build markets for their products and services. In particular, Pan African Capital Group targets opportunities in the financial services, telecommunications, agribusiness and manufacturing.

Director

2007 - 2016

The International Bank (Liberia) Limited (IB) came into existence in 1960 as the International Trust Company (ITC) of Liberia. As of January 1, 2000, ITC became a stand alone bank and changed its name to International Bank (Liberia) Limited. In 2007, IB was acquired by new shareholders which include Trust Bank of the Gambia, Databank Financial Services of Ghana and Pan African Capital Group, LLC of United States of America. These new partners bring considerable expertise and resources to International Bank.

Advisor

2010 - 2011

Rallywho is a dead simple, casual planning service which allows people to co-ordinate real world social outings with their friends. It is cross platform, email independent, and sits on top of existing geo-location databases in order to synthesize and deliver a unique social planning functionality.

Financial Analyst

2002 - 2007

Managed a portfolio of Asian, Middle Eastern, and African emerging markets, including Korea and India. Developed proprietary models to analyze and stress test financial condition, stability, and potential vulnerabilities of systemically important banking and capital market institutions through both publicly available and classified sources.