Archives: Speakers

Tim Radjy 2020 Speaker

Tim Radjy

Tim Radjy is the founder of AlphaMundi Group Ltd in Switzerland, the Chairman of the SocialAlpha Fund SICAV in Luxembourg, the Treasurer of AlphaMundi Foundation 501c4 in Washington DC, an Investment Committee member of AlphaJiri Fund LP in Mauritius. Previously, Tim has worked for MSCI, UBS, and as an advisor to WWF International and the… Read more »

Earl St Sauver 2020 Speaker

Earl St Sauver

Earl St Sauver is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Apollo Agriculture. Earl leads all aspects of Apollo’s technology and research work, managing software development and data science. Earl previously worked as a software engineer at The Climate Corporation, a company which provides customized recommendations to large-scale farmers using machine learning, which was ultimately acquired… Read more »

Patrick Ball 2020 Speaker

Patrick Ball

Patrick has 15+ years’ experience in investment management in both global private equity and impact investing. Prior investment experience includes Doughty Hanson & Co, Deutsche Bank, Developing World Markets (DWM) and Incofin Investment Management. He’s also previously served as CFO of FINCA International’s microfinance bank in DR Congo and managed SME Finance consultancies for DAI… Read more »

Llew Morkel 2020 Speaker

Llew Morkel

Llew Morkel is the Founder of Fraxeum.com, AZUZA Wealth and DreamBlock. He is known on the global stage as a blockchain evangelist – an engaging, exiting speaker on the subject of financial technologies and financial inclusion. Llew comes from a strong Fintech background having cut his teeth in the South African banking sector – he… Read more »

Jessica Davies 2020 Speaker

Jessica Davies

Jessica is a Senior Disruption Analyst in Nedbank’s Disruption and Innovation team. The team has a global mandate to experiment with, commercialise and fund the most talented teams working on the biggest opportunities, using their expertise to do good. They were awarded the FT Banker’s inaugural fintech partnership Tech Project Award in 2018 for their… Read more »

Linda Broekhuizen 2020 Speaker

Linda Broekhuizen

Linda Broekhuizen is Chief Investment Officer in FMO’s Management Board since 2014. In this role, she is responsible for FMO’s total investment portfolio of more than EUR 9 billion. FMO is the Dutch development bank, investing since 1970 in the private sector in developing economies in Africa, Asia and Latin America. FMO’s investments focus on… Read more »

Vahid Monadjem 2020 Speaker

Vahid Monadjem

Vahid Monadjem is co-founder and CEO of Nomanini, an Africa-focused pioneering fintech platform for the informal retail ecosystem. Nomanini connects merchants and distributors to each other and to global service providers, integrating payments, working capital, and data analytics to unlock the latent potential of Africa’s economy. Vahid is an engineer with innovation and product design… Read more »

Lamia Merzouki 2020 Speaker

Lamia Merzouk

Lamia Merzouki, is Deputy General Manager at Casablanca Finance City Authority (CFCA), which she joined at its inception in 2010. Before that, Lamia was part of AKWA Group, the largest private group in Morocco, within which she held the position of Director of Strategy and organization for 7 years. She also worked on the Green… Read more »

Chijioke Dozie 2021 Speaker

Chijioke Dozie 

Chijioke Dozie is the CEO of online consumer finance platform OneFi and Carbon (formerly Paylater), the digital financial services company, which after being founded in 2016 has been downloaded by over 1.5 million users and recently secured a $5mn debt facility from Lendable. OneFi is also the first African fintech company to receive a credit… Read more »

Marco Yamaguchi 2020 Speaker

Marco Yamaguchi

Marco is a Non-Sovereign Infrastructure Finance Division Manager at African Development Bank based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. His main mission is to lead to originate non-sovereign infrastructure projects across the region. Prior to joining AfDB, Marco spent 20 years in infrastructure/ climate finance both at public and private sectors such as Sustainable Energy Finance program… Read more »