Geoff Ogunlesi married his longtime sweetheart Jennifer Meyer on Saturday in Hawaii, United States.
Geoff is the son of Nigerian billionaire lawyer and investment banker Adebayo Ogunlesi. He married the jewelry designer Jennifer Meyer at the Four Seasons Resort Lanai in Hawaii. Meyer’s ex-husband, Tobey Maguire, officiated the wedding ceremony after he and Meyer finalized their divorce in September. Hollywood A-list celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez Bezos, and Courteney Cox, were among the people present at the wedding. Kate Hudson also flocked to Hawaii to celebrate the wedding over the weekend, according to Page Six. Ogunlesi and Meyer confirmed the birth of their baby in June this year.
Geoff is the founder of The Ogunlesi Group, an entertainment management company in Los Angeles. He started the company in 2022, as he built his career in the music industry. The company manages artists like Young Thug, charlieonnafriday, Myles Frost, and Alabama Barker. Geoff comes from the prominent Ogunlesi family, and his father, Adebayo Ogunlesi, is a Nigerian billionaire lawyer and investment banker known for his work in global finance. Geoff began his career at a major music company. He served as an A&R consultant for Warner Music Group from 2013 to 2014, before he joined 300 Entertainment. He spent almost nine years there. After he gathered experience in artist development and the music business, he started his own venture. Geoff attended Hotchkiss School, a boarding school in Connecticut, before he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, according to his LinkedIn profile. He has worked with many artists in the industry and he linked up with Meyer in 2023. Meyer announced their engagement on social media in 2024.
Bayo Ogunlesi is a banker who hails from Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, and he has about $106bn in assets. At 70 years old, the founder and current CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) made a record transaction after he sold his investment company to BlackRock. Ogunlesi obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford University. After that, he went to the United States for two more degrees at Harvard. He started his career as the first non-American clerk for a US Supreme Court judge and then became a lawyer for the Cravath, Swaine & Moore law firm in New York. Ogunlesi then entered banking at Credit Suisse First Boston in 1983. In 2006, Ogunlesi joined five other investment partners – Jonathan Bram, Matt Harris, Michael McGhee, Bill Woodburn, and Raj Rao. And they later bought London City Airport in their first year, then took over Gatwick, the second airport in the UK, in 2009. The deal of about £1.5bn ($1.9bn) opened doors for other big takeovers, including Edinburgh Airport in Scotland and Sydney Airport in Australia.
