Dorothy Maseke’s passion is to create a positive impact in people’s lives. She likes to promote collective endeavors that bring people together – locally and globally. An emerging futurist, sustainability enthusiast, certified coach, wife and mother of three, Dorothy Maseke aims to make a positive contribution to development in Africa. Dorothy Maseke started her career… Read more »
Erica Nell is the Head of Private Debt at Sanlam Investments in South Africa. She has been in the Private Debt industry for the last 11 years of her 22 year career in financial services. Her team manages R2.3bn in SME debt fund capabilities supporting more than 60 SMEs in various stages of growth. Erica… Read more »
Ade Buraimo is the Group Managing Director of Alpha Morgan Capital Group, a fast growing Investment Banking Group. Before his appointment as the Group Managing Director, Ade Buraimo was Managing Director Alpha Morgan Capital Managers Ltd, Chairman of the Board of Directors Hotspot Network Limited and Independent Non-Executive Director, Saro Agro-Allied Limited. Ade Buraimo has… Read more »
Maelis Carraro is the Managing Director of Catalyst Fund and heads the venture building team at innovation consulting firm BFA Global. Maelis has spent her career in impact investing and fintech, working alongside fintech startups, investors, DFIs, banks, and philanthropic funders to pioneer tech-enabled solutions across emerging markets. At Catalyst Fund, a global accelerator for… Read more »
Joseph Ng’ang’ira is a Partner in the Commercial Department of Kaplan & Stratton, Advocates one of Kenya’s premier, top tier law firms. Joseph is a qualified Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Certified Public Secretary. Joseph Ng’ang’ira presently specializes in mergers and acquisitions, competition/antitrust law capital markets law, corporate law, start up of… Read more »
Zohrab Mawani is an executive and entrepreneur in the Energy sector who has focused most of his career on the transition to a low-carbon economy. Working with both startups and multi-nationals, Zohrab has led the development of over 1,500 MW of now operational renewable generation and 2,000 MW of HVDC transmission in development. A geologist… Read more »
Executive Director and Group CEO Citizen and Resident of Mauritius Qualifications: Master’s degree in applied mathematics, actuarial science and finance and Executive MBA from HEC Paris (France). Skills & Experience: • Worked in the internal audit department of Aviva Europe as audit senior manager in the financial management and actuarial audit department, conducting internal audit… Read more »
Anusha Naidu heads up Corporate Finance, including capital raising, structuring and investor relations at Select Africa, a pan African housing-focused microfinance institution. She is a South African Chartered Accountant with specialist financial services experience across local and international capital markets. Prior to joining Select in 2016, Anusha Naidu worked at various PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) global offices…. Read more »
Andrew Schultz joined Investec in 2014 heads up Frontier Markets • Andrew Schultz has over 10 years dedicated Frontier Markets experience, having started as an investment analyst covering sub-Saharan Africa. • Andrew Schultz started an institutional pan-African business for a South African research and stockbroking firm and was then Head of Strategy and Sales at… Read more »
Paul Kamau is a seasoned Finance and Investment Professional who has nearly Two decades of experience garnered in leading organizations in the larger Eastern and Central Africa. Currently, he is an Executive director at Finaltus Ventures Limited a licensed Pan African Investment and Transaction Advisory Firm based in Nairobi, Kenya. As the executive director, he… Read more »