Herta Von Stiegel Biography

Herta established Ariya Capital in 2008 to focus on Africa as the next major opportunity for sustainable venture and private equity investments. She has 25 years of experience in international finance with a consistent track record of building profitable highly regulated structured finance businesses and has led/ executed debt and equity transactions in excess of $10 billion. She was MD at AIG Financial Products where she built a successful European structured finance division and has also held senior positions at Citibank and JP Morgan in London and New York. She has specific sector expertise in finance renewable energy and carbon credits.
A tax lawyer by training she serves on several boards with significant African operations in the corporate and not-for-profit sectors including Camco International a global market leader in climate change solutions and Opportunity International the second largest microfinance organisation in the world.
Herta holds a Juris Doctor degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Michigan a Masters of Law degree in Taxation from New York University School of Law a B.A. from Andrews University and completed the Executive Programme in Corporate Finance at the London Business School. Born and raised in emerging markets Herta has committed this phase of her career to sustainable investing in Africa and other frontier markets for financial returns but also to achieve quantifiable social and environmental benefits.

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