Archives: Speakers

Sarah Whitten 2022 speaker

Sarah Whitten is USTDA’s Regional Financing and Implementation Manager for the Sub-Saharan Africa based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to USTDA, she was with Standard Chartered Bank managing a portfolio of South African headquartered multinationals and global corporate regional offices. Prior to this, she was with the Debt Capital Markets team based in New York,… Read more »

Miranda Abraham 2022 speaker

Miranda Abraham is Co-Head of Loan Syndications at Rand Merchant Bank. She has worked across loan and debt capital markets for over 20 years. She spent the first half of her career covering a wide range of syndications across EMEA, and then in 2010 began to focus exclusively on financing for Developing Markets. Miranda Abraham… Read more »

Laurence Berman 2022 speaker

Laurence Berman is a co-founder of Biolevel. He drives all commercial expansion efforts in Europe and Africa and leads work around raising capital for the company. He started is career in New York at Morgan Stanley, later working in London and Frankfurt as a senior executive for a real estate private equity fund. His shift… Read more »

Bejoy Nettikadan 2022 speaker

Bejoy Nettikadan is the founder and Chief Executive of NetOne. A chartered accountant turned entrepreneur, Bejoy Nettikadan is passionate about creating impact through technology.Bejoy Nettikadan founded NetOne in 2007, at the age of 23 and has led the team to deliver impact, innovation and growth over the past 15 years of the Group’s existence. He… Read more »

Mike Mompi 2022 speaker

Mike Mompi is Managing Partner of Enza Capital, a venture fund investing in early-stage African technology companies solving large and meaningful problems. He sits on the Boards of multiple African technology companies including SeamlessHR, Craydel, and Tuteria.com. Enza Capital is based out of Nairobi Kenya, has made 33 investments into 23 portfolio companies through its… Read more »

Wairimu Karanja 2022 speaker

Ms. Wairimu Karanja is the Chief Legal Officer and Partner at Persistent and based in Nairobi. She is an international lawyer qualified in Kenya, with 12 years of legal experience. Wairimu Karanja has advised private sector and development organisations on various projects in Africa relating to renewable energy and climate change policy; power project development… Read more »

Dr Evans Osano 2022 speaker

At FSD Africa, Dr Evans Osano leads capital markets development initiatives across Africa. These include green bond markets and market infrastructure development. He also sits on the board and investment committee of the African Local Currency Bond Fund (ALCBF) and chairs the donor committee of Frontclear’s Technical Assistance Facility. Dr Evans Osano has a keen… Read more »

Enrique Tizon 2022 speaker

Enrique Tizon is a seasoned Syndications Officer currently covering IFC syndicated lending across sectors, exclusively, in SSA. During his 12-year tenure at IFC he has covered IFC syndicated transactions in Asia based in Hong Kong, Latam based in Washington DC and more recently the larger EMEA region while based in London.

Matthew Gilbert 2022 speaker

Matthew Gilbert is a partner in the Maples Group’s London office and chairs the Global Real Estate Finance Group. He advises on finance, banking and corporate law matters involving BVI and Cayman Islands companies and partnerships, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, partnerships and joint ventures, debt and equity financings, and project, real… Read more »

Stanley Osuide 2022 speaker

Stanley Osuide is the Group CEO of AFRICA INVESTMENT GATEWAY (AIGGL) a UK-based company facilitating direct investment into life-changing, sustainable, and impactful projects in Africa. Stanley also sits on the board of a few other companies such as Nigeria Investment Gateway, Green Renewable Energy Group, Start-up City Hub; all companies currently operational in Africa. His… Read more »