Archives: Speakers

Hussein Sefian 2022 speaker

Hussein Sefian is the Founding Partner of Acre Impact Capital, responsible for strategy, business development, growth and partnerships. Acre Impact Capital invests climate-aligned infrastructure by partnering with leading commercial lenders and Export Credit Agencies. The Firm is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and GuarantCo a Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) company. Prior to founding Acre… Read more »

Luni Libes 2022 speaker

Luni Libes is a 30+ year serial entrepreneur turned teacher, author, and investor. Luni is the co-founder of Africa Eats, a pan-African investment holding company, and founder of Fledge, a global network of business accelerators. Africa Eats is a unique investment firm. We’re not a fund. We’re not a conglomerate. We’re a mash-up of the… Read more »

Bello Mohammed Tongo 2022 speaker

Engr. Bello Mohammed Tongo is an award-winning experienced educational, construction, design and innovation professional, entrepreneur. He is the Executive Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tongston Entrepreneurship Group (Tongston), a leading award-winning pan-African group connecting entrepreneurship and education through finance, media and business. Bello is a Top 100 Visionary in Education conferred by the… Read more »

Rajiv Daya 2022 speaker

Rajiv Daya is the Head of Investments at Founders Factory Africa (FFA) where he leads a team responsible for investing in and securing follow-on funding for a growing portfolio of African FinTech, HealthTech and AgriTech startups. As at January 2022, FFA has invested almost $18m in 40 seed-stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Rajiv… Read more »

Alix Peterson Zwane 2022 speaker

Alix Peterson Zwane is Chief Executive Officer of the Global Innovation Fund, a hybrid investment vehicle that accelerates evidence-based innovation through early-stage debt and equity investing, as well as grant-making. GIF is backed by leading bilateral aid agencies, corporates, and foundations and contributes to filling the pioneer gap between development assistance and development finance. Alix… Read more »

Hossam Abou Moussa 2022 speaker

Hossam Abou Moussa has spent all his 20+ years career investing in growth markets with more than a decade dedicated to financial services. Prior to Apis Partners, Hossam Abou Moussa was a Partner at Actis, where he led a team of investment professionals that focuses on investing in the Financial Services sector across Africa, South… Read more »

Ababacar Diaw 2021 speaker

• Ababacar Diaw is Managing Director at Impaxis Group and in charge of Advisory and Capital Markets transactions (M&A / ECM / DCM / Structured & Leveraged Finance) • Ababacar Diaw is also CEO of Impaxis Securities, the licensed broker and capital markets arm of the Group • Ababacar Diaw is a seasoned investment banker… Read more »

David Davies 2022 speaker

David Davies was named by Future Agro Challenge (FAC) as Global Agripreneur of the Year 2018 for his work as CEO of AgUnity and helping lift low-income farmers out of poverty. The work by David Davies and AgUnity has been globally recognised by the likes of IFC World Bank, Mastercard Foundation, UN Food and Agriculture… Read more »

Tarek Mouganie 2022 speaker

Tarek Mouganie is the founder of Affinity, a full-fledged digitally-driven bank that provides affordable financial services to the underserved and unbanked, targeting eight out of the seventeen UN SDGs. Affinity has built channels for both digital natives and low fidelity users, enabling 24/7 banking services to the mass market at a low cost. In its… Read more »

Greg Swenson 2022 speaker

Greg Swenson is a founding partner of Brigg Macadam Ltd, and emerging market investment banking firm in London. He has over thirty years of banking, alternative investments, and global markets experience. Greg Swenson held several positions at HSBC Global Banking and Markets, and spent his first eleven years in the industry at Lehman Brothers, holding… Read more »