In December 2021, Flying Doctors Health Care Investment Company launched its catalyst fund. This is in a bid to building an investor collective to enhance support for tech companies in their early growth stage.
FDHCIC which specializes in technology enabled healthcare focused public private partnerships (PPP) and is one of the leading healthcare and wellness companies that make healthcare affordable, accessible, and acceptable across the continent. They combine infrastructure financing with enabling technologies to deliver to their clients.
According to them, this Catalyst Fund is to harness resources through syndicate to solve Africa’s most pressing challenge.
The founder Dr Ola studied medicine and surgery at the Hull York Medical School after which she worked in Acute Medicine in the UK. She then went on to be awarded the Japanese MEXT scholarship which allowed her to further her studies in Tokyo, Japan, the fellowship focused on lab-based research with induced pluripotent stem cells.
She also holds a Masters degree in Finance and Economic Policy (Major) from the University of London. She has a certificate in Public-Private Partnership from Harvard University, a Project Finance and the Public Private Partnership Professional Certificate from the New York Institute of Finance, a certificate in Business execution and strategy from Wharton, Economic policy making from IE business school, Spain , a certificate in Accounting for decision making from the University of Michigan in the United States and a certificate in Finance & Investing in Infrastructure (Project Finance) from Universita Bocconi in Milan.
She currently teaches economics and finance at the School of politics, policy and governance in Nigeria.
She is also an international speaker who has spoken at the TED global conference, the European Union, the Swiss Economic Forum, the UN, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, the World Health Organisation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge University and the Aspen Ideas Festival. Dr Ola and her work have been featured by CNN,the BBC, Forbes and Al-Jazeera.
