In 2012, Jean-Luc Konan founded the Financial African Company (Compagnie Financière Africaine, COFINA), which became the first African financial institution dedicated to mesofinance. Cofina aims at bridging the missing link between microfinance and traditional banking when it comes to financing SMEs. Holding offices in six countries across West Africa, the group counts more than 125,000… Read more »
As CDC Group’s Financial Institutions sector strategist, Wasim is responsible for developing the investment strategy of their second largest sector by AuM. Geographic scope covers Africa and South Asia; product scope covers Equity, Debt, Guarantees and Funds. Wasim’s topic expertise spans capital markets, asset management, transaction banking, retail banking, consumer finance, payments and insurance. His… Read more »
Jurgen Hammer is the Managing Director of SPTF, the international inclusive finance network and Standard Setting body for social performance management (SPM), in charge of the European office in Luxembourg. From 2008 to 2019, Jurgen was Chief Risk Officer and Head of SPM at Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation (GCAF). Jurgen’s involvement in financial inclusion started… Read more »
Thomas Hougaard is the Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa, International Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) based in Copenhagen Denmark. IFU invests across agribusiness, renewable energy and financial institutions and currently hold an active portfolio of more than 60 projects across the continent.
Philippe has over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. He spent his career in investment banking at international banks before joining IPRO in 2013. At IPRO, he became the lead manager of the African Market Leaders fund and set up the Africa Total Return fund in 2014. He has also managed POLICY… Read more »
Raj has had a successful career in private equity at Kibo Capital Partners, a leading regional African middle market private equity fund with an AuM of more than USD 100 M, joining in 2007 as one of the main principals. Raj has acquired extensive experience investing across Southern and Eastern Africa, as well as the… Read more »
After 19 years with Barclays PLC, a significant proportion of which was in the African business including time in Kenya, Botswana, Zambia and South Africa, as well as managing the Pan-African Wealth Business from London, David joined Barclays Bank of Kenya as Retail and Business Banking Director at the start of 2019. Passionate about growing… Read more »
Christina is an Investment Professional with broad experience in Asset Management, Valuation, Investing and Divestitures, successfully having executed Equity, Debt and M&A Transactions for GE Capital EMEA over the last decade. She is highly skilled in underwriting, managing and exiting both equity and debt / leveraged finance transactions as well as fund investments. After moving… Read more »
Managing Director of Harwell Capital, with responsibility for management of the group and leading the investment team. Advise growth stage Venture Capital technology companies in SaaS, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy sectors. Chartered Financial Analyst and multi-sector direct investor since 2008, with extensive experience in portfolio management, public and private equity and debt, and… Read more »
Michael Darcy B.Eng MBA CEng MIET has more than 30 years’ experience in mobile and satellite communications. With a background in digital signal processing and digital beam-forming, Mike has been connecting the unconnected in Africa for more than 20 years, starting in the 1990s with the design of new digital satellite payloads to deliver GSM… Read more »
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