Twaambo Hamusute is Chief Executive Officer of Zambian Home Loans, which he has led since inception. He has over 12 years’ experience in insurance, risk management and business development. Twaambo worked at Barclays Bank Zambia Plc, where he served in various senior management roles such as business development, strategy, bancassurance and consumer lending. Twaambo studied… Read more »
Michael Waller is the MD of Sofala Capital, a housing finance investment company, where he has driven the formation and development of both Zambian Home Loans (“ZHL”) and IBUILD Home Loans (“IBUILD”). ZHL provides affordable mortgage finance and building advice to Zambians who are in the process of building their own homes. IBUILD provides micro-mortgages… Read more »
Kecia Rust is the Executive Director and founder of the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF). She is a housing policy specialist and has worked with both public and private sector practitioners in promoting access to affordable housing and housing finance in Africa for the past 20 years. She was the Housing Finance… Read more »
Paul Jackson has been TUHF’s CEO since inception in 2003 and has been involved in development finance since 1987. Prior to his appointment as CEO at TUHF, Paul held positions as senior operations manager at the JHC, general manager for the Transitional National Development Trust (TNDT) and divisional manager for Southern Africa at the Development… Read more »
Elise Donovan is the chief executive officer of BVI Finance and brings to the role wide-ranging work experience in Asia, North America, the Caribbean and Africa , Elise has played a major role in expanding and deepening the BVI’s financial services footprint in cities around world, specifically in the Asia Pacific region, through strategic relationship… Read more »
Matthew is head of the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands team in London and chairs the Real Estate Finance group. He advises on finance, banking and corporate law matters involving BVI companies and partnerships, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, debt and equity financings, and project, real estate and asset… Read more »
David Diaz Formidoni is an Investment Officer (Energy Debt) at responsAbility Investments AG. Based in Zurich, David leads the sourcing, coordination, structuring and execution of debt investments in financial institutions across Africa for the Global Climate Partnership Fund (GCPF), which is managed by responsAbility. David has more than 6 years of experience in the development… Read more »
She was previously the Sector Director of Mining, Resources and Commodities at FirstRand Bank Limited in Johannesburg. Shirley joined Absa Bank Limited in 2011 and is the Coverage Head for Natural Resources at Absa (Corporate and Investment Banking). Her responsibilities include maintaining and growing relationships in the mining, metals, oil, gas and chemical industries. She… Read more »
Yvan joined Symbiotics in 2005. Prior to this, he worked for BlueOrchard Finance where he was the chief operations officer. Before this, he was a microfinance consultant in Peru and a small enterprise consultant in Western Africa and worked as a fund accountant at Capital International in Geneva. Yvan holds a degree in Business Administration… Read more »
Bola Onadele. Koko is the pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange. Prior to this engagement, Koko was the President of FDHL, a financial markets and risk management consulting firm he founded in 2001, where he provided business leadership in the empowerment of the Nigerian fixed income market and consulted extensively for… Read more »