After graduating at
Boston College with a Bachelor of Science in finance in 1996, Sagna started working at
International Monetary Fund as economic systems officer based in
Washington, D.C, U.S. In November 1999, he joined
Emerging Capital Partners in same city, he was appointed as investments officer he served in this position for five years until August 2004. In November of the same year, Sagna became the chairman and CEO responsible for Africa at The Resource Group, a
Washington DC–based investment holding company, popularly known to own
IBEX Global. He served in this position until February 2007. In February 2008, Sagna relocated from
Washington DC, U.S. to
Geneva, Swiss to join Millennium Global Investments Limited, he was appointed as head responsible for Africa market opportunities. He served this position for one year long, in March 2009, Sagna moved to England to serve as CEO at Blackthorn Capital Partners, a London based pan-African investment firm, until February 2012. Since 2012, he served as managing partner at Century Private Investments renamed to First Continent Group, a
Seychelles based investment holding company focused on asset management related solutions primarily targeting
Namibia and
Rwanda sovereigned owned entities. Addition to this, in August 2015, Sagna joined
Africa Finance Corporation, he was appointed as a head responsible for financial advisory. He served this position for two years, in June 2017, Sagna joined
African Export-Import Bank where he served as global head responsible for advisory and capital markets based in
Cairo, Egypt. The position he served until November 2022 when he became executive chairman at Silverbacks Holdings. Sagna is on boards of a
Johannesburg-based Founders Factory Africa and a Kigali-based Fund for Export Development of Africa (FEDA). He is an advisory board member for Dubai-based Beacon Media, and a mentor at California-based
Draper University. == References ==