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Richard Lackey 2021 Speaker

Richard Lackey

Mr. Lackey is a serial entrepreneur with 8 +years of experience in emergency medicine and 20+ years of experience in fund management. Before founding the World Food Bank, he was the founder of the Global Food Exchange which formulated a network of stored food in the United States for response to natural disasters. His vision… Read more »

Souhir Mzali 2020 Speaker

Souhir Mzali 

Souhir is Oxford Business Group’s Regional Editor for Africa and has been with the company for almost eight years. She currently oversees research and editorial processes in some of Africa’s largest economies, including Nigeria and Kenya. Souhir started off her career at OBG in the company’s editorial department in Istanbul in 2011 and has since… Read more »

Bronwyn Corbett 2020 Speaker

Bronwyn Corbett

Bronwyn Corbett is a founding member and the CEO of Grit, the largest pan-African real estate focused company listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange, the main board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, as well as on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius. Born in South Africa, Bronwyn qualified as chartered accountant, served… Read more »

Neale Petersen 2020 Speaker

Neale Petersen

Neale Petersen is a real estate entrepreneur, influencer, investor, and mentor. He is the visionary behind Real Estate Investor Magazine (REIM) as founder and editor-in chief including REImag www.reimag.co.za South Africa’s leading real estate investment and educational platform since 2007. Neale has had the unique privilege of meeting and interviewing many local and international investors,… Read more »

Peter Hinton 2020 Speaker

peter hinton

Co-Lead, Affordable Education Finance, CapitalPlus , CEO of SDG and Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Peter has over 25 years of commercial experience in Africa, the United Kingdom and S E Asia investing and transforming financial institutions, banks, fair-trade and not-for profit organisations. Peter is CEO of SDG that advises impact investors… Read more »

Tony Tiyou 2021 Speaker

Tony Tiyou

Tony Tiyou is the Founder and CEO of Renewables in Africa, a Clean Energy engineering consultancy and media platform which vision is to Bring (Back) Power to Africa. Tony previously worked for a decade as Development Engineer, Project Manager, Lead Consultant and Business Development Manager in several companies in the Automotive and the Renewables Industries…. Read more »

Michelle Haigh Osorio 2020 Speaker

Michelle Haigh

Michelle Haigh Osorio is Investment Director at KawiSafi Ventures, driving investments in renewable energy access and related technologies in East Africa. Michelle has worked in emerging markets private equity since 2007, previously investing in renewable power projects in Latin America while at Conduit Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group. Earlier in her career, she worked… Read more »

Jasper Graf von Hardenberg 2021 Speaker

Jasper Graf von Hardenberg 

Jasper Graf von Hardenberg is a co-founder and Chief Executive Office of Daystar Power. Jasper has more than 8 years of experience working in top-management consulting and senior management positions in sub-Saharan Africa & Europe for TGI Group – an African diversified group of companies – and Bain & Company. ​ At Bain & Company,… Read more »

Charlie Blair 2020 Speaker

Charlie Blair

Charlie Blair, Managing Director, joined Gravitricity in 2015 having been Head of Marine Energy in the Carbon Trust’s Innovation Team. He is an experienced commercial leader, delivering millions of pounds of innovation funding, and has 15 years’ experience in clean energy technology innovation. He has supported numerous early-stage technology start-ups ranging from electric vehicles through… Read more »