Archives: Speakers

Batanai Matsika 2018 Speaker

Batanai Matsika has a strong background in equities research and mainstream investment banking in Sub- Saharan Africa having worked for financial and investment banking houses such as Sanlam, Banco Português de Investimento and Imara. He has also consulted for Nova Capital Africa Analytics (USA), Hamilcar Capital (UK) and Mackie Research Capital Corporation (Canada). Batanai has… Read more »

Stanley Anyetei 2018 Speaker

Stanley is an investment officer at Triodos Investments Management, specializing in financial inclusion in Africa. Stanley has spent more than 15 years in the investment banking space, starting at Investec Bank Limited with an emphasis on investment structuring and product development. Before joining Triodos, Stanley worked as Head of Investments at PYMWYMIC, a European community… Read more »

Logan Wright 2018 Speaker

Logan is a partner in our London office. He specialises in cross-border financings for developing markets, including Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the wider CIS. Logan’s practice covers a wide range of financing products, in particular, syndicated lending, trade finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, mezzanine finance and corporate restructurings. Logan has extensive experience… Read more »

Gavin Wilkins 2018 Speaker

Gavin is Client Relationship Director at Minerva and has prime responsibility for the strategic direction of Minerva’s global corporate and funds division. Gavin has extensive experience across a variety of asset classes in the areas of private client, corporate and fund administration and serves as a Director on a range of specialist structures and regulated… Read more »

Jibril Aku 2018 Speaker

Jibril J. Aku holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and an MBA from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He also holds a Diploma in Insurance from the Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and was awarded Doctor of Science in Business Administration (D.Sc.) Honoris Causa of Achievers… Read more »

Stephen Whale 2018 Speaker

Stephen joined JTC in 2010 and heads up the company’s PWS divisions in the Channel Islands. He started his career with PwC in London before moving to Jersey and joining Caversham Fiduciary Services where he worked for over 17 years, ultimately leading the business as Managing Director. Stephen is a Chartered Accountant with extensive commercial… Read more »

James Bryant 2018 Speaker

James is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Head of Fund Operations at Highvern. Previously a director with a large international administrator, James headed up several key client relationships and sat on a number of fund boards including a renewable infrastructure fund and various real estate companies. Prior to working as an administrator, James was an… Read more »

Mitesh Patelia 2018 Speaker

Mitesh is a corporate finance partner bringing extensive experience in corporate finance transactions and supporting emerging clients, particularly in capital market and mergers and acquisition transactions having completed almost 50 deals over the last decade. This broad range of experience combined with his commercial background, allows him to be a trusted and all round adviser… Read more »

Thomas de Dreux-Brézé 2018 Speaker

Thomas joined Rawbank in Sept. 2015 to define and implement the Strategy 2017-2019. In this regards he is also in charge of fund raising and partnership with financial Institutions. In addition to Strategy, Thomas is leading the Controlling and Marketing teams. Prior to his current position, Thomas was an entrepreneur and started in career in… Read more »

Nimit Shah 2018 Speaker

Mr Shah is partner at Helios Investment Partners where he focuses on credit investments. He joined Helios in 2008, and over the last 10 years has invested in credit, growth equity and buyout opportunities across Africa including Vivo Energy, GB Foods Africa, OVH Energy, Mall for Africa and Continental Outdoor. Prior to joining Helios, Mr… Read more »