Company Profile
Lionstone was founded in 2004 as a response to the needs and opportunities of what the founders termed an “Emerging Contemporary West Africa”. Macro-economic and geo-political trends such reductions in inflationary trends, a movement towards free market, democratic economies and reductions in corruption and conflict have led to significant economic growth and Foreign Direct Investments into the West African Region.
By bringing together superior market access, world class strategy development, tactical execution, and superior access to financial and human capital, Lionstone is a business platform that operates across asset intensive sectors of this emerging West African economy.
We operate as a Diversified Holding Company and Proprietary Investor – providing needed intellectual and financial capital and acting as a catalyst for financial progress, entrepreneurship, innovation and efficiency for our subsidiary entities, Joint Ventures, and third party clients.
As the West African region continues to show increasing and significant signs of transformation and progress, we envision that companies such as ours will play an increasingly vital role in connecting capital and people to our markets.
To succeed, we seek to remain nimble and stand ready to combine our unparalleled access to capital, our deep market roots and our expertise, in mobilizing the best global talent to bear on the West African region.
The tenets of our Group remain:
* A determination to attract, retain and develop talent with unsurpassed market expertise
* A commitment to a culture of excellence, teamwork and integrity
* A determination to operate at the highest standards of Corporate Governance in the World
With these unchangeable cornerstones of our operating ethos – we believe Lionstone is well positioned to attract the best people and ideas to it, to execute at the highest quality levels – and to reward our Shareholders and Partners.