Archives: Speakers

Noha El Ghazaly 2022 speaker

Ms. El-Ghazaly has over fourteen years of experience in the Egyptian financial services industry, and she currently holds several roles across a wide spectrum including private equity, venture capital as well as board memberships in some of Egypt’s largest corporates. She serves as the Egypt Country Advisor at Mediterrania Capital Partners; a EUR 450Mn AUM… Read more »

Karim El Hnot 2022 speaker

Karim EL HNOT is the Deputy head of the investment bank of Société Générale Maroc in charge of asset management activities and CEO of Sogécapital Gestion the asset management arm of the bank. Karim has more than 22 years of experience in the asset management industry. He was successively equity analyst, fixed income fund manager,… Read more »

Olivier Gui 2022 speaker

Olivier currently holds the position of Managing Director of ALC Titrisation, a securitization fund management company licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (CREPMF), member of Africa Link Capital Group (ALC Group). In this role Olivier is responsible for originating, executing, and managing debt securitization transactions as well as promoting the use of securitization as… Read more »

Franklin Olakunle Amoo 2022 speaker

Franklin Olakunle Amoo is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Baylis Emerging Markets, a leading pan-African investment firm with headquarters in Lagos and New York. As an active investor in a number of operating companies across Africa, Franklin serves on the boards of several African companies. Prior to co-founding Baylis, Franklin Olakunle Amoo helped… Read more »

Cobus Visagie 2022 speaker

Cobus Visagie co-founded Africa Merchant Capital in 2012 as a privately owned boutique merchant bank, focused on the high growth private capital markets of Sub-Sahara Africa. In 2016, AMC Trade Finance was launched, which provides flexible, secured trade finance to importers and exporters through a transactional trade finance model, to add to our existing corporate… Read more »

Kristoffer Laurson 2022 speaker

Kristoffer Laurson has worked in financing and running companies in Emerging Markets for nearly 20 years, most recently as CEO and co-founder of one of the leading internationally funded offgrid energy companies in Nigeria. The company was the first to launch Energy as a Service in Nigeria.

Imran Patel 2022 speaker

Imran Patel is a Director at Verdant Capital where he oversees Verdant’s Francophone West Africa business. Imran has over 20 years’ experience as a key strategist and investment professional, having started his career at a leading North American investment fund where he helped oversee and actively manage a global portfolio, including its African debt and… Read more »

Dan Zook 2022 speaker

Dan Zook is the Executive Director of ISF Advisors and has a passion for bringing inclusive agriculture and supply chain financing solutions to market. Based in New York, Dan Zook directs ISF’s portfolio of projects related to investment advisory, financial inclusion, and enterprise strategy in the rural finance sector. He previously worked as a strategy… Read more »

Charlie Robertson 2022 speaker

African icon, 2021, African Banker magazine TED Global talk on Africa’s Fastest Billion Number 1 Frontier analyst 2016-20, Thomson Reuters Extel / Institutional Investor surveys

Afsane Jetha 2022 speaker

Afsane Jetha is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alta Semper Capital, an institutional private equity manager she founded in 2015 alongside Ronald Lauder (Chairman of Clinique LLC) and Richard Parsons (former CEO of Time Warner). Alta Semper is committed to democratizing access to generational health and well-being across growth markets. Alta Semper manages funds on… Read more »