Mohammed Mijindadi, a veteran infrastructure and energy executive with more than two decades of experience across Sub-Saharan Africa, has launched Africa Infrastructure Solutions Ltd (AISL), marking a new chapter after a 20-year career with GE Vernova/GE.
Mijindadi, who now serves as AISL’s Founder and CEO, said the venture was established around the conviction that Africa’s infrastructure challenge is not necessarily a shortage of ambition or capital, but the difficulty of converting ambitious ideas into bankable and executable projects.
“What is often missing is the trusted expertise,” he said, pointing to the need for projects grounded in international standards while reflecting African market realities.
The new firm combines his experience in energy, transportation, construction and infrastructure development with a broader ambition to support Africa’s long-term economic transformation.
What to Know About Africa Infrastructure Solutions
Africa Infrastructure Solutions Ltd is a founder-led infrastructure advisory firm established in 2020 and incorporated in Nigeria and the United States, with its headquarters in Nigeria.
The company positions itself around the philosophy of “Local depth. International rigor,” seeking to bridge international infrastructure standards with the regulatory, commercial, stakeholder and community realities of African markets.
AISL says its objective is to turn “Africa’s most ambitious infrastructure visions into bankable, investable, and deliverable projects.”
Its clientele includes governments, private investors, utilities, development finance institutions and multinational corporations.
The company provides end-to-end professional services, from initial project concepts and feasibility studies through development, financing, implementation and long-term operations.
Its stated values include integrity, excellence, continuous learning, professionalism, expertise and innovation.
AISL’s Six-Pillar Infrastructure Model
AISL has structured its operations around six service pillars designed to cover the infrastructure project lifecycle.
These include transaction advisory, project development, engineering consulting, procurement and quality assurance/quality control, business facilitation, and operations and maintenance.
Through transaction advisory, the company says it helps clients move projects from feasibility towards financial close and investor readiness.
Its project-development offering focuses on technically robust, environmentally responsible and strategically positioned projects, while its engineering consulting applies international design standards to African conditions.
AISL also promises procurement oversight and rigorous quality frameworks to protect project timelines and budgets.
Its business-facilitation function draws on local networks and intelligence, while operations and maintenance advisory is intended to protect infrastructure investments over the long term.
From Energy and Construction to a Continental Infrastructure Platform
The company’s sector ambitions extend beyond power generation. AISL identifies energy, oil and gas, civil and construction, digital and telecommunications, and real estate among the sectors in which it operates.
Its corporate profile highlights more than $3 billion in strategic infrastructure deals and over 1,000MW of power development led from conceptualisation to financial close, alongside activity across more than 15 Sub-Saharan African markets.
The company lists Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Mauritania, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Angola and Mozambique among markets served directly, with international partnerships complementing that footprint.
The breadth reflects Mijindadi’s own career, which has covered power, oil and gas, utilities, transportation, construction, civil engineering and real estate development.
Meet Mohammed Mijindadi: The Executive Behind AISL
Mijindadi brings more than 20 years of senior executive and technical experience to AISL. Before establishing the company, he served as President of GE Vernova’s Nigeria operations and Managing Director of Gas Power Systems for Anglophone and Francophone Africa.
This followed earlier leadership positions in GE Transportation and GE Gas Power Systems. His career began in engineering and construction, including work with Julius Berger Nigeria and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, before moving into commercial, strategic and executive leadership.
His academic background combines civil engineering and business, he studied Civil Engineering at Ahmadu Bello University and Temple University, where he earned a BSc and a minor in Business Management, before obtaining an MBA in Product Marketing and Strategic Leadership from Penn State University.
His professional profile emphasises strategic planning, Lean Six Sigma process improvement, business development, negotiations, pricing, product strategy and integrated marketing communications.
From a 20-Year GE Chapter to Africa’s Infrastructure Future
Mijindadi’s transition to AISL represents a shift from leading major corporate infrastructure and energy operations to building an independent platform focused specifically on project development and infrastructure advisory.
In announcing the move, he said his previous work with governments, investors, development finance institutions, EPC contractors and industry partners had involved turning major infrastructure concepts into reality, including projects linked to power, transport, housing and critical infrastructure.
“That work is not done. AISL is how I continue it,” he declared.
His ambition is therefore broader than establishing another consultancy, AISL seeks to occupy the space between infrastructure ambition and successful execution by helping stakeholders structure projects capable of attracting financing and moving through implementation.
The model also aligns with Mijindadi’s stated commitment to Africa’s energy future, local talent development, sustainable growth and innovation.
Talking Points
AISL’s emergence comes at a time when African infrastructure development continues to face challenges involving project preparation, financing, regulatory certainty, technical capacity and execution.
Mijindadi, like other ecosystem experts, has previously argued that infrastructure constraints can persist even where generation capacity exists, because weaknesses across the wider value chain can prevent assets from delivering their intended economic impact.
Against that backdrop, AISL’s proposition is built around making infrastructure projects technically credible, commercially viable, investment-ready and executable.
Its success, however, will ultimately depend not only on its founder’s credentials, but on the company’s ability to convert those credentials and networks into measurable projects, successful financial closes and infrastructure assets that deliver sustainable value across African markets.
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