Under 40 CEOs
Career profile covering JPMorgan, returning to Nigeria, Dutum’s development, leadership and construction.
About Tope Runsewe
Managing Director,
Dutum Company Limited
Tope Runsewe has spent much of his career working through the commercial, financial and operational questions behind infrastructure delivery.
Before joining Dutum in 2009, he worked at JPMorgan Chase in London, including within its Global Commodities Group. At Dutum, his responsibilities grew across business development, construction operations and executive leadership before he became Managing Director.
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Infrastructure viewed as a connected delivery system.
That career has given him a broad view of infrastructure as an engineering undertaking, a financing problem, a commercial structure, a sequence of institutional decisions and an organisation’s ability to execute.
His present work focuses on preparing projects before seeking capital, understanding and allocating risk, making infrastructure opportunities investable, building scalable construction-business systems, improving institutional decision-making, and infrastructure delivery in Nigeria and African markets.
Selected Work and Conversations
An editorial record of ideas and conversations.
The Punch
Construction regulation, skills, private capital and Nigeria’s institutional environment.
The Guardian
Dutum’s growth, construction and national development.
Infrastructure and connected development
Infrastructure, housing and the systems required for connected urban development.
Current Thinking
After Approval
Why formal approval is only the beginning, and how agreements, institutional continuity, evidence and execution decisions shape what happens next.
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Project preparation before capital
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Institutional continuity as project-risk control
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