“Jane Kayitesi is an investment professional with over 10 years of experience in investment promotion, investor engagement, and strategic stakeholder management. She currently serves as an Investment Marketing Specialist at the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), supporting investors to identify and pursue investment opportunities in Rwanda. She actively engages with investors, private equity and venture capital… Read more »
“Amma Gyampo is a strategic advisor with over 20 years of global experience in management consulting, telecoms (Vodafone, Blackberry), public sector IT, nonprofit, private sector development and impact investing. As the Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (GVCA), she is focused on accelerating the growth of the private capital… Read more »
Laura Gier is a Senior Investment Manager in DEG’s Africa Private Equity team, where she focuses on investments in private equity funds and companies across the continent. She works with fund managers and businesses to mobilize and invest growth capital that supports sustainable economic development, job creation and positive impact across the continent. From January… Read more »
Darra Comyn is Chief Commercial Officer of Ethiopotash and a Chartered Accountant with more than 20 years’ board-level experience across Africa, Europe and other emerging markets. A former FTSE 250 CFO and COO, he has extensive experience in natural resources, capital raising, project finance and M&A, and has been involved in raising more than US$2.4… Read more »
“Christopher Olobo is the Founding Chief Executive Officer of Dhamana Guarantee Company, an East Africa-focused credit guarantor that provides irrevocable guarantees to unlock local currency financing for infrastructure and real economy projects. He leads Dhamana’s mission to mobilise domestic institutional capital by de-risking investments and enabling banks and pension funds to extend long-term financing, particularly… Read more »
Théophile Moulin is the Country Manager for Benin, Togo and Guinea within the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA). He works with businesses and development finance institutions to identify investment opportunities, strengthen investment readiness and facilitate access to finance in African frontier markets. His sector experience includes renewable energy, financial services, agribusiness and manufacturing. Previously, Théophile… Read more »
Asatu Shannon is a Principal at CrossBoundary, where she leads the implementation of the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA) overseeing DFI investment support activities across Benin, DRC, Ethiopia, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Togo. She brings 16+ years of experience originating and managing investments mainly in West Africa and Europe, working closely with institutional investors… Read more »
Jean Kabese is a Country Manager for the DRC where he leads the delivery of the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA), supporting the development of investment opportunities and facilitating engagement between businesses and development finance institutions. Jean has over nine years of investment and advisory experience across Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to relocating to the DRC,… Read more »
Surafel Kelemework is a Senior Associate in CrossBoundary’s East Africa office, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he serves as Country Manager for the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA) programme. Before joining CrossBoundary, Surafel worked as an Associate at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, providing strategic and analytical support to various Ethiopian government… Read more »
Tommy Williams is the Sierra Leone Country Manager for the Africa Resilience Investment Accelerator (ARIA), where he works with local businesses and development finance institutions to identify and develop investment opportunities and support the mobilisation of long-term capital into Sierra Leone. Prior to joining ARIA, Tommy worked across investment, financial services and business development in… Read more »
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