Mark Doumba is an entrepreneur, investor and development economist.

As a Managing Partner at Enovate Capital, he has co-founded and led early-stage investments in a number of market-shaping enterprises in the financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and technology sectors in Africa and Asia.

Some of the companies include CLIKAFRIK Group, a technology company that leads one of Africa’s most transformative digital public-private partnerships. Since 2020, CLIKAFRIK Group has enabled close to 40,000 micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Gabon form and move into the formal economy by fully digitizing business registration, pension and health insurance enrollment.

He is also a founder of CLIKPAY Technologies : the first and only financial technology company in Central Africa to secure a mobile money license from the Central Bank and to operate a neobank : CLIKPAY Money.

Mark started his career in Dubai in investment banking as a financial analyst. He then joined the private office of Mohamed Alabbar as Director of Business Development, where he oversaw equity investments and partnerships across sectors, with a focus on mining. He moved to Gabon in 2015 to design and start Okoumé Capital : Gabon’s €30.6 million Sovereign Venture Capital Fund.

Mark is passionate and active about development work. In 2011, he had been coopted as an advisor to the Transitional Committee of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) where he partook in the negotiations that led to the establishment of the GCF : the world’s largest multilateral climate fund. From 2014 to 2016, he sat on the Global Agenda Council at the World Economic Forum on the future of mining and metals.

Mark earned a Bachelor's degree in finance from the George Washington University; an Msc Management from the London School of Economics (LSE), and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School.

He was Managing Editor of the Africa Policy Journal at Harvard University and is a Foundry fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).