Archives: Speakers

Terje Osmundsen 2020 Speaker

Terje Osmundsen

During his eight years as Head of Business Development in Scatec Solar, Terje developed a distinctive track-record from pioneering and scaling solar energy in emerging markets. His leadership experience include large international groups like Kvaerner, Telenor, Saga Petroleum and Alcatel, as well as publishing and think-tanks. He is a seasoned non-executive board member and currently… Read more »

Lilian Mramba 2020 Speaker

Lilian Mramba

Lilian is an experienced investor with over a decade supporting impact businesses in Africa. She is the Africa Regional Director for Grassroots Business Fund where she is responsible for the Africa strategy for GBF’s $49 million global mezzanine fund. She also manages GBF’s advisory services, impact measurement, and ESG compliance activities in Africa. Currently, Lilian… Read more »

Guy Hosking 2020 Speaker

Guy Hosking

Guy is the CFO of Retail Capital, having joined the business in 2013. Guy has 20 years’ experience in the banking, consumer and SME credit industries. During this time he gained a broad skills base through finance roles with internet bank start-up 20twenty, Standard Chartered Bank, the RCS Group and Retail Capital. He qualified as… Read more »

Tarek El Sherbini 2021 Speaker

Tarek El Sherbini

Tarek El Sherbini has 20 years of banking and investment experience gained with major financial institutions – including the last 15 years with the EBRD in London. Mr. El Sherbini has been responsible with the EBRD for leading debt and equity financing and investments in the food and agribusiness sectors in North Africa, the East… Read more »

Muhtari Adanan 2019 Speaker

Muhtari Adanan

Muhtari Adanan is managing partner and co-founder of AI first, impact investor Xecced Ventures (XV). XV’s $100m 4thIRiA I fund, driven by XV’s novel AI platform W/OS, is reportedly “Africa’s first AI fund” (quant).

Wadzi Katsidzira 2021 Speaker

Wadzi Katsidzira

Wadzi manages the Capital Advisory Platform for Sustainable Urban Infrastructure, a new partnership between UN Habitat and Global Development Incubator that is focussed on upstream preparation of infrastructure projects in developing cities across the globe. Previously Wadzi was a Vice President at Greenoaks Global Holdings an insurance focussed private equity fund with investments in Asia… Read more »

José Reino da Costa 2020 Speaker

José Reino da Costa

José Reino da Costa: Millennium bim CEO and vice president of Impar Insurance Company since 2015. With a Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering and a post graduate in industrial engineering and E- Business, as well as an MBA in management, José Reino da Costa has developed his carrer in top managerial positions in sectors such… Read more »

Rob Withagen 2020 Speaker

Rob Withagen

Rob Withagen is co-founder and CEO of Asoko Insight, Africa’s leading corporate data and market insights platform, offering data and insight on the continent’s most dynamic companies and the people who run them. Prior to starting Asoko, Rob spent over a decade working for emerging market consultancies. He led in-country research teams across the continent’s… Read more »

Fabio Scala 2020 Speaker

Fabio Scala

Fabio Scala is the founder of FurtherMarkets, an UK based Africa-focused consultancy. He previously led a London equity holding company into a portfolio of investments in Southern Africa, starting in Mozambique later expanding into Zimbabwe and Zambia. Fabio has also served as the Managing Director of Mozambique’s investment and development bank, where he was a… Read more »

Aly Ramji 2020 Speaker

Aly Ramji

Aly Z. Ramji is a Director at Mediapix Ltd., a media house in East Africa, where he is the Managing Editor of “The Exchange”(www.theexchange.africa), a finance and investment publication focused on Africa. Other publications that fall under his auspices include PesaTu a financial inclusion paper, an African travel site known as See Africa Today (www.seeafricatoday.com)… Read more »