VICTOR WILLIAMS

Victor Williams is a member of Axum's advisory board.  Mr. Williams brings extensive merger and acquisition, investing, and operating experience to Axum’s board.  He is currently the Chief Executive Officer for the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) in Africa, where he oversees the league’s basketball and business development initiatives across the continent.

Prior to this role, Mr. Williams served as the Executive Head of Corporate and Investment Banking for Africa for the Standard Bank Group.  Previously, Mr. Williams was a Managing Director and co-head of Wells Fargo’s Technology, Media & Telecom M&A practice and was a member of the firm’s Fairness Opinions Committee.  During his extensive career in investment banking, he has completed over $30 billion of domestic and cross-border financial advisory assignments, including mergers, corporate divestitures, acquisitions, joint ventures, public shareholder buyouts, hostile defense assignments, and fairness opinions.  

Mr. Williams also served as a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He received undergraduate degrees in Applied Math and Economics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.