Archives: Speakers

Patricia Ithau 2021 Speaker

Patricia Ithau

Patricia is passionate about creating opportunities that improve people’s lives. Her love for identifying enduring consumer and commercial insights to support the development of brands and grow businesses’ was actualized in a career spanning 25 years across 3 global companies namely Unilever, Diageo/EABL and L’Oreal. In the last 8 years of that career, her focus… Read more »

Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel 2021 Speaker

Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel 

Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel is the Managing Partner in charge of Rakuten’s growth venture investments comprising a variety of rapidly expanding disruptive industries such as Fintech, Mobility, Digital Media, Healthcare and Telecommunications. At Rakuten Capital, Oskar has spearheaded a global investment strategy with a diversified portfolio of innovative start-ups in North America, Europe and… Read more »

Zohrab Mawani 2021 Speaker

Zohrab Mawani 

Zohrab was born in Kenya and moved to Canada at the age of seven. He is an entrepreneur and executive in the energy sector where he started with government and utilities in 1995 and with private sector renewable energy development in 2002. Working with both startups and multi-nationals, he has led the development of 1,287… Read more »

Thurstan Moodley 2021 Speaker

Thurstan Moodley

Thurstan Moodley is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Khumovest. Thurstan has more than 11 years experience in the Financial Services Sector, 5 years of which were dedicated exclusively to managing private equity, mezzanine finance and structured investment product asset portfolios. Thurstan has additionally managed senior debt investments as well as investments in the Small… Read more »

Thomas Festerling 2021 Speaker

Thomas Festerling

Thomas is GreenTec’s CFO and co-founder, who brought his extensive financial and investment background to the development of GreenTec’s investment approach. Thomas is a specialist for financing, investor relations and business planning. In the middle of a successful career at Deutsche Bank (DB), Thomas decided to apply his wealth of financial expertise towards work with… Read more »

Thomas Reilly 2021 Speaker

Thomas Reilly

Thomas is the Managing Director of Lango Real Estate Ltd (Lango), where he played the lead role in founding the business as a joint venture with Ninety One and Growthpoint Properties, in partnership with the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Lango is a real estate company focused on generating compelling and sustainable investor returns through the… Read more »

Victoria Madedor 2021 Speaker

Victoria Madedor 

She holds B.Agric in Agricultural Economics from the University of Benin, Edo State, Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and currently pursuing Masters in Marketing and Innovation (MA) at the Metropolitan School Of Business UK. An experienced Business Development Consultant with a focus on the Agricultural Sector and currently Group Head Business Development at BOI Investment… Read more »

Thato Mashigo 2021 Speaker

Thato Mashigo

Thato is a portfolio manager at Sanlam Private Wealth; a part time finance lecturer; and a director of CFA Society South Africa. He has 10 years experience across investment banking, investment management, film production and the education sector.

Susan Payne 2019 Speaker

Susan Payne

Susan has spent her career building businesses either focused on or located in global emerging markets, primarily Africa. After having been called the Bar in Canada, Susan’s early work experience included senior management roles with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs. In 1997, Susan co-founded a hedge fund focused on emerging markets, as well as helping… Read more »

Kawtar Ed-Dahmani 2021 Speaker

Kawtar ED-DAHMANI 

Kawtar Eddahmani is a Managing Director for the Emerging Markets Sovereign Debt Team at Barings Asset Management, and member of the EM Corporate Investment Committee. Her coverage includes, among others, most African countries. Prior to joining Barings in 2014, Kawtar was at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where she specialised in International Development. Prior… Read more »