Ashley Lewis
Head Of Venture Capital at Development Partners International (DPI)
Lagos State, Nigeria
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Lewis is an experienced venture capital leader with eight years in investment and early-stage finance, currently heading Venture Capital at Development Partners International in Lagos. She has a track record building and scaling African fintech and impact ventures, having led Accion Venture Lab’s early-stage VC activity across the continent and co-founded a platform that trains and places talent into impact finance roles. Her background spans institutional asset management at Goldman Sachs and Vanguard to hands-on small enterprise development with the Peace Corps, giving her rare fluency across capital markets, operations, and field-level program delivery. An MBA from HEC Paris complements her international finance BS from Morgan State, reflecting a disciplined, entrepreneur-first approach to investing. She also contributes to open-source software—improving a Python/Gtk front end for youtube-dl—demonstrating practical technical curiosity beyond dealmaking. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic connector who pairs market insight with operational support to help founders scale across Africa.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) International Finance, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) International Finance at Morgan State UniversityMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Entrepreneurship and Innovation at HEC Paris
English, French
Github Skills (12)
youtube-dl10
gtk10
front-end-development10
python10
thread9
multithreading9
hyper-threading9
threaded9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
ui-design8
file-management7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
axcore/tartube
May 2019 - Dec 2022
A GUI front-end for youtube-dl, partly based on youtube-dl-gui and written in Python 3 / Gtk 3
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 releases, 3 reviews, 47 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ashley's contributions primarily involve modifications to the GUI front-end for youtube-dl, including the addition of new features and fixes to existing functionality. They made changes to the core download process, incorporating a new download method and updating the user interface elements. The user also addressed bugs and improved the overall user experience by tweaking the system preferences window and related features within the application.
frontendgtkpythonyoutube-dl
axcore/axmud
Mar 2018 - Sep 2020
A modern MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) client
Contributions:4 releases, 3 commits, 22 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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