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PEOPLE & PARTNERS

Institutional Leadership & Expert Network

Salama Capital combines senior managing partners with an extended network of independent associate consultants to deliver multi-disciplinary advisory, climate finance, and transaction assurance mandates.

Managing Partners

Managing Partners providing overall firm governance, capital advisory, and transaction execution across East Africa.

Angelique K. Kantengwa

Angelique K. Kantengwa

Founder & Managing Partner
Kigali, RwandaMPA & Mason Fellow (Harvard Kennedy School)

Angelique Kantengwa is a senior advisory and transaction consultant with more than 35 years of leadership across central banking, financial-sector supervision, and development finance. She is a Harvard Kennedy School MPA graduate, former Senior Director of Financial Stability at the National Bank of Rwanda, and former Managing Director of the Rwanda Social Security Board.

Lina Rutaba

Lina Rutaba

Partner & Head of Transaction
Kigali, RwandaCorporate Finance & Transaction Advisor (15 Yrs Experience)

Lina Rutaba is a transaction and strategic-finance adviser with 15 years of experience across Rwanda, France, Canada, and the United States. She leads corporate-finance, capital-structuring, and transaction-advisory work for governments, DFIs, banks, and growth companies. Lina has led more than 20 investment transactions totaling over USD 50M and contributed over USD 30M in FDI to Rwanda.

Our Extended Expert Network

Dr. Tauni Lanier
Associate Consultant

Dr. Tauni Lanier

Senior Associate Consultant — Sustainable Finance & Climate Capital Architecture

London, UK / Global

Global sustainable finance architect and former Founding MD of the Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index with $5B+ in climate capital advised across blended finance, green bonds, and ESG data systems.

Dr. Mihaela Balan
Associate Consultant

Dr. Mihaela Balan

Senior Associate Consultant — Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning (MEL) & Systems Impact

Sub-Saharan Africa / Brussels / Australia

Senior MEL and private sector development expert with 25+ years leading multi-country facilities for the EU, World Bank, and FCDO across 20+ African nations, specializing in DCED standard results measurement.

Daniel Ishimwe, CPA, FMVA
Associate Consultant

Daniel Ishimwe, CPA, FMVA

Associate Consultant — Financial Modeling, Audit & Transaction Assurance

Kigali, Rwanda

Senior financial analyst and auditor specializing in DCF valuation models, EU Pillar Assessments, and fiduciary due diligence for DFI facilities, sovereign institutions, and growth-stage enterprises.

OPERATING MODEL

How We Work

Salama Capital assigns a senior lead to each mandate, brings in transaction, institutional-reform, M&E, gender-lens or technical specialists according to scope, and applies partner-level review to key outputs. Salama Capital remains responsible for client coordination, quality management and clear accountability for the agreed deliverables.

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