Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani is a strategic finance and energy executive with over 18 years of multidisciplinary experience spanning energy finance, infrastructure development, investment banking and development finance across more than thirty African markets. She is the Founding CEO of EnergyInc Advisors, a strategic investment and advisory firm focused on capital mobilisation, infrastructure financing and policy advisory in the energy, climate and financial services sectors.

Her career began in country risk analysis at Control Risks and Eurasia Group, where she assessed business and political risks for multinational clients across Africa’s energy sector. She subsequently built and led an award-winning energy research team at Ecobank Group covering 35 African markets, before moving into senior investment banking roles at FBN Quest Merchant Bank as Head of Energy, Natural Resources and Infrastructure. She later served as Senior Africa Advisor on Energy to IFU (now Impact Fund Denmark), Chief Commercial Officer at Mixta Africa, ARM Group’s infrastructure subsidiary and as General Manager and Head of Investor Relations at Zenith Bank Plc.

Rolake holds a Global Executive MBA from the TRIUM programme jointly offered by NYU Stern, LSE and HEC Paris, an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Government from the London School of Economics. She is fluent in English and French.

In addition to her executive career, Rolake serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at UpEnergy, a global decarbonisation project developer and at ALL ON, Nigeria’s leading off-grid renewable energy impact investment fund, where she also sits on the Investment Committee. She is a Non-Executive Director at Save the Children International and a member of its Audit and Risk Committee. Her past advisory roles include Aruwa Capital Management, Persistent (Africa’s Climate Venture Builder), the African Energy Chamber and Stonechair Capital.

She is a recognised industry voice, having been named among the Top 100 Women in Finance (Leading Ladies Africa, 2025) and one of the 275 Global Female Influencers in Energy (UK Energy Council, 2020). She is a Fellow of the UK Energy Institute and an Honorary Senior Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.