Our Team
Our core leadership team and deployment experts bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the African Collaborations Group (ACG).
Executive Chairman
Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard
Executive Chairman, African Collaborations Group (ACG)
In 2022, Nicolas was appointed by then FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura to the FIFA Task Force for Infrastructure Development in Africa, established to advance FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s vision of enabling at least one FIFA-standard stadium in every African country.
Within this mandate, Nicolas led the formation of a multi-stakeholder consortium to develop a comprehensive, ecosystem-based approach to sports infrastructure.
The consortium brings together recognised leaders across key disciplines and is supported by leading advisory partners.
Nicolas also holds advisory and governance roles across the wider sport and Africa investment ecosystem, including as an Advisory Board Member of the World Football Summit and the Sports Africa Investment Summit, and as Special Advisor to the President of Rugby Africa, the governing body of rugby in Africa.
Through APO Group, he has supported major global sport and institutional stakeholders across Africa, including as the pan-African public relations agency for organisations such as the NBA, the Basketball Africa League (BAL), the NFL, and the International Olympic Committee, and previously served as FIFA’s pan-African public relations agency (2020-2024).
Nicolas also serves on the Senior Advisory Board of the Canada-Africa Chamber of Business and the Leadership Council of the Africa Tech Festival, and sits on the Advisory Boards of the African Energy Chamber, Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF), Critical Minerals Africa Group, Bloomberg New Economy Gateway Africa, the EurAfrican Forum, and the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA).
He is a Council Member of the Africa No Filter Foundation and acts as a strategic adviser to the Chief Executive Officer of the Royal African Society (United Kingdom) and to the EU-Africa Chamber of Commerce (EUACC).
More information at www.Pompigne-Mognard.com
Our Advisory Board
ACG is supported by an Advisory Board of senior, highly experienced leaders who bring independent perspective, credibility, and real-world execution insight to the development of Victory District™ and future projects.
The Advisory Board exists to strengthen decision-making at the earliest stages of project origination – helping ACG stress-test assumptions, accelerate stakeholder alignment, and ensure the concept evolves into a model that is technically credible, commercially viable, and institutionally deliverable.
Advisory Board members serve in a non-executive, strategic advisory capacity.
They do not manage day-to-day operations; instead, they provide guidance, introductions, and constructive challenge across the core dimensions that make or break complex infrastructure programmes, including governance, bankability, sport ecosystem fit, and long-term operational sustainability.
Fatma Samoura
Former Secretary General of FIFA
(2016-2023)
Paulo Gomes
Chairman of the Orango
Investment Corporation;
Former Executive Director
of The World Bank
Carlos Carrión
Former Head of the
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
Renovation Project
Jan Alessie
Co-Founder & Managing
Director of the World
Football Summit (WFS)
NJ Ayuk
Executive Chairman of
the African Energy
Chamber (AEC)
Rick Taylor
Founder of The Business
Tourism Company
Herbert Mensah
President of Rugby Africa;
World Rugby Executive Board
Member; Chair of the World
Rugby Regions
Andrew Skipper MBE
Former Chair of the Hogan
Lovells Africa Practice
Grégoire Ndjaka
CEO of the African Union
of Broadcasting (AUB)
Lee Martin
Senior Advisor of Getty Images
Kenny Jean-Marie
Former Chief Member
Associations Officer of FIFA
(2021-2024)
James Williams
Former Senior Director
of Events of Informa Tech
(Africa Tech Festival)
Mike Dada
Founder of
All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA)
Diamil Faye
Acting General Manager
of the Riyadh 2034 –
Asian Games
Jonathan Worsley
Chairman and
CEO of The Bench
(Future Hospitality Summit)
Joâo Peseiro Monteiro
Broadcast and Media
Sports Events Consultant;
Former Head of Service
of Euronews
Jason Jennings
Former Chief Operating Officer
of Event Horizon (Afro Nation)
Gianni Merlo
President of the
International Sports Press
Association (AIPS)
Dr. Adesegun Adeosun Jr
(King SMADE)
Co-Founder of Afro Nation
Aida Diarra
Former Senior Vice President
Sub-Saharan Africa of Visa (2018-2025)
Fleur Tchibota
Former Chief of Staff,
Office of the CEO, Africa50
(2022-2026)
Ahmed Abas
Head of Sports, Leisure and Entertainment MEA of JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle)
Our Research and Impact Advisory Panel
To complement our Advisory Board, African Collaborations Group (ACG) is establishing a Research and Impact Advisory Panel: a focused group of independent researchers and practitioners who strengthen the evidence base behind Victory District™ and ensure ambition is translated into measurable, credible and bankable outcomes.
The Panel supports the feasibility phase by providing independent challenge, helping define a robust theory of change, and validating an impact framework that DFIs, investors and government counterparts can rely on for institution-grade decision-making.
Composition of our Research and Impact Advisory Panel
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