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Lynda Amadagana 2021 Speaker

Lynda Amadagana

Lynda Amadagana is the Founder and Managing Partner of A&P Law Firm. She is a lawyer admitted in Paris and Cameroon advising investors and sponsors on general business law, corporate operations, projects and concessions in the energy and infrastructures sectors as well as project financing in Africa with a specific focus on the OHADA zone…. Read more »

Damilola Aloba 2019 Speaker

Damilola Aloba

Damilola is a Partner with EY’s Transaction Advisory Services in Nigeria. He has over 18 years experience in investment banking and corporate finance.

Ermias Eshetu 2021 Speaker

Ermias Eshetu 

Ermias was the CEO of Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for three years and led the media company African Renaissance Television Service (ARTS) in 2018 for a short while. During his tenure with ECX, he prudently and strategically led the effort of the Exchange in building a modern marketing system via the launch of an e-Trade… Read more »

Michael Edem Akafia 2021 Speaker

Michael Edem Akafia 

Michael has a multi-disciplinary background in Law, Economics and Finance. He is currently the Vice President & Head, Legal at Gold Fields Limited’s West Africa operations responsible for the legal, compliance and company secretarial affairs. Before joining Gold Fields in 2010, he was the Company Secretary & Head, Legal & Compliance at SIC Financial Services… Read more »

Bleejay Innis 2021 Speaker

Bleejay Innis

Bleejay is an emerging Leader and Entrepreneur with a focus on Africa. He was born in Buchanan, Liberia on January 14, 1989 and grew up in the capital city of Monrovia for most of his early childhood before escaping the country with his family in 1996 during the nation’s civil war. He completed his undergraduate… Read more »

Massaer Cisse 2021 Speaker

Massaer Cisse 

As Managing Director of Lekela Power in Senegal, Massaer is responsible for managing Lekela’s investment projects thru financial close, construction and long-term operation. Additionally, he leads Lekela’s business development activities in the region. Prior to joining Lekela, Massaer was a Director at Deloitte, where he led a team who assisted multinational firms in various sectors,… Read more »

Lord Dolar Popat 2021 Speaker

Lord Dolar Popat

Lord Popat is a Conservative peer at the House of Lords and has been the UK Trade Envoy for Rwanda and Uganda since 2016. He was born in Uganda and arrived in the United Kingdom in 1971, a year before the expulsion of many Indians from Uganda. After practising as an accountant in the late… Read more »

Asha-Sabrina Ayub 2021 Speaker

Asha-Sabrina Ayub

Asha-Sabrina (known as Sabrina) is a qualified lawyer in Mainland Tanzania (Advocate), Zanzibar (Advocate) and England (Solicitor) and a registered Arbitrator (TiArb). Sabrina has considerable experience as a lawyer in private equity and corporate (including mergers and acquisitions), banking and debt finance, petroleum, mining and other regulated industries (including local content laws), infrastructure, construction and… Read more »

Azeez Amida 2021 Speaker

Azeez Amida 

Azeez Amida has had a meteoric growth in his 17-year career that spanned across FMCG, healthcare, investment banking,  agriculture, and private equity.  He is currently the deputy managing director at EastCastle Infrastructure, one of West Africa’s key telecom Tower Infrastructure providers. Before his current appointment, Amida had been CEO at IHS Rwanda and, before that,… Read more »

Maelis Carraro 2021 Speaker

Maelis Carraro

Maelis Carraro is the Director of Catalyst Fund and the Impact Ventures Practice at BFA. She has over 10 years of experience working alongside fintech startups, development finance institutions, microfinance banks and impact investors to pioneer tech and data-enabled solutions that benefit underserved communities in emerging markets. At BFA, she runs Catalyst Fund, a global… Read more »