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Amenyogbo in a private session
Amenyogbo in private session on the sidelines of the Milken Institute event series.

Ruben George Jonathan Amenyogbo (born December 21, 1989) is a German- American businessman. He is the chairman and CEO of ARCHITECT.[1], a global private equity firm he established in 2024. According to Swiss documentary "Reclaiming Cocoa" his family office holds substantial investments in the cocoa industry across West Africa.[2]

Amenyogbo has been the face of global international campaigns including Jean Paul Gaultier[3], Pepe Jeans[4] Calvin Klein and Highsnobiety.

Amenyogbo is a contributor to the World Economic Forum.[5]

Education

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Amenyogbo graduated MPhil from Cambridge University[6][7] and attended the PhD Engineering at the Cambridge Department of Engineering (IFM) [8] . In 2020 he intermitted his doctoral studies to focus on supporting the family business.

Investment career

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In 2015, Amenyogbo joined private equity firm Rocket Internet. He was part of the USD 586 million acquisition of Delivery Hero.[9] Amenyogbo joined Delivery Hero in 2016 in its run-up to IPO[10]. In 2017 Amenyogbo joined the Boston Consulting Group working out of the New York City office. From 2021 Amenyogbo led Investments for Protocol Labs, a Palo Alto based R&D lab backed by Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.[11][12] Amenyogbo syndicated multiple major investment partnerships including a multi-year deal with a16z.[13] In 2024 he established global private equity firm ARCHITECT.[1]

Personal life

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Amenyogbo is in a long term partnership with former tennis player and internet personality Alessa Winter[14][15]. Amenyogbo is brother to internet personality Julia Dalia[16]

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  2. ^ "Reclaiming Cocoa". swissfilms. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  3. ^ "Dailymotion". www.dailymotion.com. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  4. ^ "Retrospektive: Pepe Jeans feiert 50 Jahres-Jubiläum". https://www.textilzeitung.at (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  5. ^ "Decentralized Autonomous Organization Toolkit". World Economic Forum. Archived from the original on 2025-01-24. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  6. ^ "Ruben Amenyogbo". De Psycholoog (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  7. ^ Bettache, Karim; Hamamura, Takeshi; Amrani Idrissi, Joubyr; Amenyogbo, Ruben George Jonathan; Chiu, Chi-yue (2019-02-01). "Monitoring Moral Virtue: When the Moral Transgressions of In-Group Members Are Judged More Severely". Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 50 (2): 268–284. doi:10.1177/0022022118814687. ISSN 0022-0221.
  8. ^ https://cambridgeservicealliance.eng.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/2020annualreview.pdf
  9. ^ Lunden, Jon Russell, Ingrid (2015-02-06). "Rocket Internet Puts $586M Into Delivery Hero, Buys 9 Other Food Startups". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Russell, Jon (2017-06-30). "Delivery Hero's valuation surpasses $5B following successful IPO". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  11. ^ "Initial Coin Offering - Protocol Labs - 2017-08-10 - Crunchbase Funding Round Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  12. ^ "Ruben Amenyogbo - Crunchbase Person Profile". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  13. ^ "Announcing: Protocol Labs Partners With a16z Crypto Startup School". Protocol Labs. 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  14. ^ "Retrospektive: Pepe Jeans feiert 50 Jahres-Jubiläum". https://www.textilzeitung.at (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-30. {{cite web}}: External link in |website= (help)
  15. ^ "HALO Embraces the Wilderness With Its FW22 "Expedition" Collection". Hypebeast. 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2025-03-30.
  16. ^ Dalia, Julia (2019-05-23). "How it really feels: Model und Bloggerin Julia Dalia über ständiges Starren und ungefragtes Haare Anfassen". Vogue Germany (in German). Retrieved 2025-03-30.