Archives: Speakers

Sean Gammon 2018 Speaker

Sean is a Director of Imara Capital Zimbabwe, the country’s longest established capital markets operation. Sean heads Imara’s corporate finance division which has been involved in most of the larger capital raisings, IPOs, privatisations and M&A transactions over the last 20 years. Established in 1954, Imara dominates the local stockbroking and asset management sectors, and… Read more »

Matthew Amlôt 2018 Speaker

Matthew Amlôt is the Editor of Banker Africa. Launched in 2013 the magazine focuses on covering a variety of issues that affect the banking and finance community on the African continent, from financing economic development, to best practice, and risk management. He also has several years of experience in the fintech landscape and has interviewed… Read more »

Helena Green 2018 Speaker

Helena joined the international team at the CISI in 2010 and focussed on developing the CISI’s business in the Middle East. As the Dubai office became more established Helena turned her focus to Africa where the CISI signed its first agreements in East Africa in late 2014. Last year over 2,500 CISI exams were taken… Read more »

Nick O’Donohoe 2018 Speaker

Nick O’Donohoe joined CDC as its Chief Executive in June 2017 and is also a member of the CDC Board. He was previously a Senior Adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he specialised in the use of blended finance models to support the work of the Foundation. Prior to taking this role,… Read more »

Ravin Dajee 2018 Speaker

Ravin leads Barclays Mauritius and sits on the Barclays Africa Executive Committee Board. He was appointed Managing Director of Barclays Mauritius in July 2007 after six months as Corporate Director within the organisation. Prior to joining Barclays, Ravin was since 2002, the General Manager of two of the key parastatal bodies in Mauritius, namely, the… Read more »

Hemal Mehta 2018 Speaker

Hemal is the Founder and CEO of AtomInvest (www.atominvest.co), EMEA’s first digital platform for high quality alternative investments across private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. Prior to founding AtomInvest, Hemal was an investment professional within the African private equity space at DPI LLP and an investment banker in mergers & acquisitions at Barclays Capital… Read more »

Nieros Oyegun 2018 Speaker

Nieros joined CDC in 2017 to lead The Africa List, CDC’s investment in the leaders and businesses responsible for Africa’s next decade of growth. Nieros comes to CDC with 15 years of experience in investment banking and alternative assets (EM debt and structured credit). She helped lead the development of Macquarie’s Africa infrastructure project finance… Read more »

Charlotte Ward 2018 Speaker

Ms. Ward joined AHL in 2014. From her base in the UK, she leads AHL’s relationships with a number of portfolio companies, and sits on many Boards and Advisory Committees. Ms. Ward has experience in investment banking, project finance and managing small business development support programs in emerging markets. Prior to joining AHL she managed… Read more »

Nick Hughes 2021 Speaker

Nick Hughes initiated M-PESA, the mobile money platform that has revolutionised financial access in Africa, leading the team that took M-PESA from concept to scale. In 2012, Nick co-founded M-KOPA, pioneering access to clean energy and financed assets. M-KOPA has connected over 1,000,000 customers to distributed solar energy, low power TVs and smartphones. Nick is… Read more »

Sarga Coulibaly 2018 Speaker

10 years of experience in Financial Engineering and Structured Finance Asset Type : Consumer Assets, Retail Auto Loans/Leases, Operating Assets, Trade Receivables, Transportation, Corporate and SME loans.