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Joseph Ayisi
Joseph is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at 5th Century Partners (“5CP”). He brings over 13 years of experience in private equity accounting, compliance, and operations.
Prior to joining 5CP, Joseph was the Controller and Vice President of Compliance at Chicago Pacific Founders (“CPF”), a Chicago-based middle market private equity firm. Previously, he worked at Pomona Capital, where he oversaw the operations and accounting of a registered private equity fund focused on secondary investments. Joseph was the controller of Halyard Capital, a New York based lower-middle market private equity firm, before joining Pomona. He has also worked at JP Morgan, Northern Trust’s private equity and real estate funds services groups, where he worked on both private equity fund-of-funds as well as direct LBO private equity funds. He began his career in public accounting at Grant Thornton.
Joseph earned an M.S. in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Sc. in Finance from the University of Ghana, Legon. He resides in Chicago with his family.