Margaret OConnor 2022 speaker

Chair

Launch Africa

Biography

Margaret O’Connor chairs Launch Africa Ventures, the preeminent seed stage VC fund in African tech. The listed company governance and risk management experience she’s gained as a NED for Chrysalis Investments Ltd (LON:CHRY), a pre-IPO investment trust backing disruptive innovation in the UK and Europe and as a MasterCard International executive in Singapore and New York informs her approach to derisking investments in the African innovation ecosystem.

A former Silicon Valley VC funded entrepreneur, Margaret OConnor and her global team started, scaled and sold the pioneering B2B Adtech venture in a trade sale. A former partner in the Centre for Disruptive Technology, she supported the development of digital transformation in leading African banks and their investment in and collaboration with fintechs. The London-based American and Irish citizen lived and worked across Africa for 18 years.