Ayesha Ofori
About Ayesha Ofori
A multi award-winning businesswoman, Ayesha is the founder & CEO of Propelle, a female focused investment platform. She is also a known expert in the financial investment and property sectors. Ayesha previously held roles in Morgan Stanley's Real Estate Investing and Investment Banking teams, and at Goldman Sachs, where she was an Executive Director and Private Wealth Adviser to ultra-high net worth individuals, managing over $500m of client assets. Ayesha’s career has always centred on helping people to build wealth. Through companies she founded, she has worked with high net worth individuals who sought to invest in residential property, and in 2019, Ayesha launched PropElle Network and the Black Property Network, communities that focused on women and minority groups respectively, democratising property investment and helping those who need it most to build stable financial futures. In 2022, Ayesha pivoted PropElle Network and started Propelle – a female focused investment platform with financial education and community at its core. Propelle is backed/ supported by Google, Atomico (angel fund) and Goldman Sachs. Ayesha has received many awards and accolades for her work. She is one of Management Today’s 35 Women Under 35, she won the Women of the Future Award, she was named one of “15 Women of the Future you need to know” by The Telegraph newspaper, one of “30 of the UK’s most inspiring entrepreneurs” by Business Leader, a RESI Trailblazer by Property Week, one of BisNow’s “46 Women in Real Estate Who Crushed It In 2019”, winner of the Black British Business Awards Entrepreneur Rising Star of the year 2020 and named one of Imperial College London’s Emerging Alumni Leaders in 2020. Ayesha has featured in multiple publications including The Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Voice Newspaper, Property Week, Business Leader and others. She is a prominent speaker on Bridging the Gap between Women and Financial Investment Savviness, Female Financial Empowerment, property investment and financial investments. She speaks frequently at leading organisations and has been a keynote speaker at Google and at London Tech Week. She has spoken for the Financial Times, at the BBC, KPMG, London Business School and others. Ayesha holds an MSci in Physics from Imperial College London and an MBA from London Business School (and Columbia Business School).