[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":150},["ShallowReactive",2],{"about-en":3},{"id":4,"cta":5,"extension":14,"impact":15,"meta":34,"missionVision":35,"partners":58,"stem":64,"story":65,"team":74,"__hash__":149},"about_en\u002Fen\u002Fabout.yml",{"heading":6,"body":7,"primary":8,"secondary":11},"Join Africa’s trust infrastructure for energy finance.","Join the ecosystem redefining African energy finance. Get in touch to explore project onboarding, institutional investment opportunities, or strategic partnerships.",{"label":9,"to":10},"Get early access","\u002Fearly-access",{"label":12,"to":13},"Contact us","\u002Fcontact","yml",{"eyebrow":16,"heading":17,"cta":18,"cards":21},"Our impact","From capital orchestration to job creation, we provide the verifiable proof that African energy infrastructure is a world-class asset.",{"label":19,"to":20},"See our impacts","\u002Fimpact",[22,25,28,31],{"value":23,"label":24},"$120M+","Aggregate value of projects currently in the vetting pipeline.",{"value":26,"label":27},"25+","Verified Independent Auditors & Technical Experts.",{"value":29,"label":30},"300M+","Target population reached via universal energy access initiatives.",{"value":32,"label":33},"~60%","Target reduction in Due Diligence Lead-time.",{},{"eyebrow":36,"heading":37,"body":38,"cards":39},"Mission & vision","Our goal is to connect global liquidity with sustainable, verifiable energy impact in Africa.","We achieve this by embedding independent due diligence and automated financial controls into the lifecycle for energy projects.",[40,46,52],{"id":41,"icon":42,"eyebrow":43,"body":44,"tone":45},"mission","target-03","Our mission","To empower Africa's energy ecosystem with transparent, trusted, and traceable project-finance structures.","navy",{"id":47,"icon":48,"eyebrow":49,"body":50,"tone":51},"vision","eye","Our vision","A world where energy is accessible, renewable, and infinitely scalable through decentralized finance and trust-based execution.","warm",{"id":53,"icon":54,"eyebrow":55,"body":56,"tone":57},"values","shield-01","Our values","We value Innovation, Sustainability, Transparency, Community, and Stewardship.","light",{"eyebrow":59,"heading":60,"cta":61},"Partners & trustees","We’re backed by the best organizations and brands.",{"label":62,"to":63},"Become a partner","\u002Fpartners","en\u002Fabout",{"lead":66,"emphasis":67,"body":68,"image":72,"imageAlt":73},"For twenty years, we saw the same story: brilliant energy projects stalled not by a lack of capital, but by a lack of transparency.","Africa needs $2.8 trillion in energy investment by 2030. Current systems are not built to handle that scale of trust.",[69,70,71],"EnerDeFi was not born in a vacuum; it was born from the front lines of African energy investment. After two decades in upstream investment management at NNPC Limited, our founder, Chinyere Obi, witnessed the systemic \"Trust Gap\" that kept billions in global capital on the sidelines.","We saw bankable projects fail due to opaque due diligence, bureaucratic disbursement delays, and the manual friction of compliance. We realized that for Africa’s energy transition to succeed, trust could no longer be a variable—it had to be the infrastructure.","Today, we combine two decades of energy-finance strategy with secured-by-design blockchain architecture to ensure that every dollar invested is a dollar tracked, verified, and delivered.","\u002Fimages\u002Fabout\u002Ffounding-story.jpg","An offshore oil and gas production platform at sea",{"eyebrow":75,"body":76,"filters":77,"members":87},"Meet our team","Our leadership combines veteran investment management and technical design to connect global capital with African execution.",[78,81,84],{"id":79,"label":80},"all","All",{"id":82,"label":83},"core","Core team",{"id":85,"label":86},"advisory","Advisory team \u002F Board",[88,98,104,111,118,125,131,137,143],{"name":89,"role":90,"group":82,"image":91,"links":92,"bio":95},"Chinyere Obi","Founder & CEO, EnerDeFi","",{"linkedin":93,"x":94},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.linkedin.com\u002Fcompany\u002Fenerdefi","https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002Fenerdefi",[96,97],"Chinyere (Chic) Obi is an energy finance strategist with 20+ years in African energy investments. She aligns capital and development to make energy finance credible and efficient.","Her expertise includes finance, capital raising, governance, and strategy, turning assets into bankable opportunities. She leads EnerDeFi’s strategy on trust infrastructure, due diligence, and partnerships to scale capital flow.",{"name":99,"role":100,"group":82,"image":91,"links":101,"bio":102},"Godwin","Chief Technology Officer",{"linkedin":93,"x":94},[103],"Architect of EnerDeFi’s \"Compliance-First\" Trust Engine. Godwin specializes in integrating blockchain logic with KYC\u002FAML and ESG data governance to develop the secure, interoperable systems necessary for transparent energy-finance ecosystems.",{"name":105,"role":106,"group":82,"image":91,"links":107,"bio":108},"Adaeze Nwachukwu","Head of Due Diligence",{"linkedin":93,"x":94},[109,110],"Adaeze runs the independent verification track, standardising the technical, legal and financial checks a project clears before it reaches an investor.","She spent twelve years in infrastructure advisory across West Africa and has taken more than forty generation and transmission projects through bankability review.",{"name":112,"role":113,"group":82,"image":91,"links":114,"bio":115},"Tunde Balogun","Head of Capital Markets",{"linkedin":93,"x":94},[116,117],"Tunde structures the instruments that move institutional capital into verified projects, and manages EnerDeFi’s relationships with DFIs and pension funds.","He was previously a director in project finance at a pan-African bank, where he closed over $1.4bn of energy transactions.",{"name":119,"role":120,"group":82,"image":91,"links":121,"bio":122},"Marise Delacroix","Compliance & AML lead",{"linkedin":93,"x":94},[123,124],"Marise owns the compliance architecture — KYC, AML and sanctions screening — that lets a cross-border disbursement clear without manual friction.","She has built regulated onboarding programmes for financial institutions in three jurisdictions and advises on data-protection alignment across NDPR and GDPR.",{"name":126,"role":127,"group":85,"image":91,"links":128,"bio":129},"Dr. Ifeoma Eze","Energy policy advisor",{"linkedin":93},[130],"Ifeoma advises on regulatory strategy and public-sector engagement, drawing on two decades in energy policy and electricity market reform.",{"name":132,"role":133,"group":85,"image":91,"links":134,"bio":135},"Samuel Kariuki","Project finance advisor",{"linkedin":93},[136],"Samuel advises on deal structuring and risk allocation for utility-scale generation, with a focus on East African markets and blended-finance instruments.",{"name":138,"role":139,"group":85,"image":91,"links":140,"bio":141},"Lena Brandt","ESG & impact advisor",{"linkedin":93},[142],"Lena advises on impact measurement and reporting, aligning EnerDeFi’s verification data with the frameworks institutional allocators report against.",{"name":144,"role":145,"group":85,"image":91,"links":146,"bio":147},"Emeka Duru","Transmission advisor",{"linkedin":93},[148],"Emeka advises on transmission and distribution engineering, and on the milestone definitions that make physical delivery verifiable on site.","sTxauMVjgAt_igrPeuFnANsOTm60x2hM_YsHu8mp_hM",1785225871965]