About us

New Frontier Capital Partners is a global private equity and investment advisory firm. Founded in 2007, the firm specializes in the creation and management of highly focused and value added investment funds. Each New Frontier Capital Partners fund has a discrete management team which has skills matched to the particular investment opportunity

NEW FRONTIER CAPITAL PARTNERS delivers superior returns to investors through disciplined investing and partnering with a broad range of companies and industries in East Africa. NEW FRONTIER CAPITAL PARTNERS invests in companies that operate in business environments characterized by limited competition or in sectors where East Africa has either a comparative advantage or an unmet need. This strategy maintains diversification within NEW FRONTIER CAPITAL Partners’ investment portfolio and provides investors with excellent, risk-adjusted returns that are generally uncorrelated to the U.S. and other global markets.

With employees living and working in the East African countries, NEW FRONTIER CAPITAL Partners’ investment team has a deep reach into the East African markets. This enables the firm to gain invaluable insight into the region's local economies and ultimately select companies that will deliver exceptional returns.

Biographical Information:

MICHAEL FEKADE GIZAW
Managing Partner for Africa

Michael F. Gizaw is the Managing Partner for Africa of New Frontier Capital Partners, LLC, a US based private equity firm with offices in Charlotte, NC, Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The firm develops and manages investment funds targeting growth opportunities in East and Southern Africa. Since 2002, Mr. Gizaw has been engaged in researching investment opportunities in East and Southern Africa and has subsequently invested in the construction and agribusiness sectors in Ethiopia. As a result of his active engagement in investment activities in Africa, Mr. Gizaw was invited by the US Government to participate as a private sector representative on high level US Trade and Investment Missions to Southern Africa and Madagascar.

Mr. Gizaw until recently served as President of Continental Fuels, Inc., a Massachusetts based supplier and marketer of energy products which he founded in 1992. Continental Fuels is a contract supplier of various energy products to both the public and private sectors in the northeastern United States. The company's clients include the U.S. Government, the Canadian Navy, the Indian Navy, AMTRAK, General Dynamics, Eastman Kodak, various state agencies, and regional airports.

Moreover, Mr. Gizaw is a commercial real estate investor in the Washington metropolitan area and is the principal partner and member of the Board of Directors of three companies engaged in the real estate business in the state of Maryland.

Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Gizaw worked for the Energy Division of Cargill, Inc., as a Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Trader covering the physical global crude oil markets, utilizing advanced financial risk management tools in the US and European futures and options markets.

Mr. Gizaw is a graduate of the University of San Francisco, with a degree in International Relations and the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Arizona, where he earned an MBA with concentrations in International Trade and Commodities Trading.