Archives: Speakers

Ahmed El Saharty 2021 Speaker

Ahmed El Saharty 

Ahmed El Saharty is a Vice President and is a member of the beyond BRIC public equity investment team covering Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. He is based in New York. Prior to joining TRG in January 2018, Mr. El-Saharty served as an associate at Briarwood Capital Partners, an emerging and frontier… Read more »

Olusegun Akanji 2021 Speaker

Olusegun Akanji 

With over 18years presence in the formal workspace, Olusegun’s experience in financial services cover commercial and investment banking and insurance. Within the investment banking space, he was part of a number of notable transactions as financial advisers. He acquired consulting exposure as a strategy and business transformation subject matter expert working with leading global firms… Read more »

Toyin Abiodun 2021 Speaker

Toyin Abiodun 

Toyin Abiodun, is former Strategic Advisor to Hon. Minister of Trade and Industry – Government of Rwanda. Toyin is a proactive development professional with over a decade and a half professional experience backed by a strong commercial acumen and a natural ability to identify and capitalise upon investment opportunities that both harnesses and drives business… Read more »

Esselina Macome 2021 Speaker

Esselina Macome 

Esselina Macome – Associate Professor at the Eduardo Mondlane University. She holds a PhD in Information Technologies and MSc in Analysis, Design and Management of Information System by LSE – University of London. She concluded courses in Digital Money, Leading Digital Money Market, Leading for Frontiers, Bitcoin and Block chain, Gender, regulating Fintechs, Humanitarian payment… Read more »

Charles Robertson 2019 Speaker

Charles Robertson

Charles is a leading emerging markets specialist, who covers the global economic themes having the greatest impact on emerging markets. He is a lead author of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution (2012), and is often found on twitter @RenCapMan. Graduated from the London School of Economics in 1993 and worked at… Read more »

Opelo Motswagae 2021 Speaker

Opelo Motswagae

Mr Motswagae has vast experience in management acquired through various critical roles in mining, construction, project management and Corporate Banking sector. Prior to establishing and actively managing Ticano Group (Pty) Ltd, Mr Motswagae was working as a Transaction Banker – Multinational Corporates at Stanbic Bank Botswana until June 2015, driving trade finance structured solutions and… Read more »

Johnson Chukwu 2021 Speaker

Johnson Chukwu

Mr. Johnson Chukwu, Founder and Managing Director, Cowry Asset Management Limited; Chairman, Standard Alliance Insurance Plc; Chairman Fidelity Pension Managers Ltd; Chairman Virgin Forest Energy Limited; (B.Sc – University of Lagos; MBA – Lagos Business School (Pan Atlantic University, Lagos), Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); Fellow, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria… Read more »

Kadidiatou Fadika-Coulibaly 2021 Speaker

Kadidiatou FADIKA-COULIBALY accumulates over 20 years of varied experience in corporate finance and investsment advisory acquired during various M&A, equity, and bond transactions. She began her career at SGI Hudson & Cie as a financial analyst in 1998 and left the company in 2000 to obtain an MBA from Howard University (USA). Kadi joins the… Read more »

Peter Maila 2021 Speaker

Peter Maila 

Peter is a member of CDC’s Africa Team, based in London. He supports CDC’s equity, debt and fund investment teams throughout Africa. Peter has worked in the private equity, investment banking and telecommunications industries for 20 years. Prior to joining CDC in 2012, he was Investment Director, Principal Investments at HSBC in London. Before that,… Read more »

Dan Farrell 2021 Speaker

Dan Farrell 

Mr. Farrell is the Chairman & CEO of Privos Capital, a global Multi-Family Office LP (MFO). Privos partners with single family offices, multi-family offices, sovereign and royal families, their funds, foundations, and portfolio companies, in leading financial centers, as well as in the BRICS, N-11, and Frontier Countries of the Emerging Markets. The firm’s main… Read more »