Archives: Speakers

Kwabena Appanteng 2018 Speaker

Kwabena joined Verdant Capital in 2014 to open the firm’s office in Accra, Ghana. Kwabena has direct experience working in the International Financial Institution sector as a Senior Private Sector Officer at USAID and has broad corporate, entrepreneurial and transactional experience in Ghana and beyond.

MacDonald Gomo 2018 Speaker

MacDonald is an Analyst at Verdant Capital having joined the organization in 2017. He is currently responsible for all aspects of the business including analysis, research work and transactional support in Southern Africa. Verdant Capital is a specialist corporate finance firm with exceptional experience transacting across the African continent.

Farrukh Raza 2018 Speaker

Farrukh enjoys 13 years of extensive and diverse experience in Islamic finance industry. His contribution involves policy level advisory to the governments of more than 20 countries, building the infrastructure for Islamic finance, and playing key roles in launching ground-breaking Islamic finance operations across several jurisdictions. He led IFAAS team in various high-profile projects, form… Read more »

Leutlwetse Tumelo 2018 Speaker

Leutlwetse has worked extensively in the capital markets and resources sector in Botswana. He has held key executive positions at Capital Securities (now Imara Capital Securities) where he worked as the Head Client Services responsible for institutional and retail clients. He has also worked as Country Manager for Minergy Limited responsible for the company’s operations… Read more »

Keletsositse Olebile 2018 Speaker

Mr. Keletsositse Olebile is the Chief Executive Officer at the Botswana Investment and Trade Centre (BITC). His role includes, being the lead advocate for a competitive and attractive investment climate in Botswana, facilitation of both domestic and foreign sourced investments, provision of aftercare services for companies doing business in Botswana, facilitation of regional expansions by… Read more »

Sean Kidney 2018 Speaker

Sean Kidney is CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative, an international NGO working to mobilize debt capital markets for climate solutions. Projects include a green bond definitions and certification scheme with $34 trillion of assets represented on its Board and some 200 organizations involved in its development and governance; working with the Chinese central bank… Read more »

Mohamed Kalif 2018 Speaker

Mohamed Kalif is the Head of Financial Intermediation and Inclusion at the African Development Bank (AFDB) which covers commercial banks, trade finance, SMEs, insurance, leasing, regional development financial institutions and financial inclusion. Before joining the Private Sector Department of the AFDB, Mohamed was Chief Risk of African Development Bank for a period of 7 years…. Read more »

Jesse Corradi 2018 Speaker

Jesse Corradi is Head of Africa and Product Innovation at USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA). As such, Jesse leads DCA’s Africa regional team, which mobilizes private capital for underserved markets across Sub-Saharan Africa by underwriting partial-credit guarantees, and DCA’s product innovation and fintech strategies. Previously, Jesse held positions in public service, impact investing, and finance… Read more »

Adrien Diouf 2018 Speaker

Adrien Diouf is the Managing Director of Agence UMOA-Titres which is a Regional Financial institution dedicated to assisting the eight (8) WAMU member countries in raising funds on the financial markets and to the development of the regional Sovereign Debt markets (MTP). Adrien Diouf has a wide operational and managerial experience in finance both in… Read more »

Dr. Edward George 2018 Speaker

Dr Edward George is the head of the UK representative office of pan-African bank, Ecobank, as well as being head of group research. Edward oversees the teams in the London office, with a focus on corporate banking, international organisations, treasury, research and digital innovation. As head of research he manages a team of eight analysts… Read more »