Archives: Speakers

Cédric Mbeng Mezui 2017 Speaker

Cédric Mbeng Mezui is Chief African Bond Markets and leads the African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI) www.africanbondmarkets.org at the African Development Bank. Since 2008, he has carried out field missions to finance projects (public and private) and the implementation of financial sector reforms in more than 40 countries in Africa and for more than $… Read more »

Cobus Visagie 2017 Speaker

Cobus Visagie

Cobus co-founded Africa Merchant Capital in 2012 as a privately owned boutique merchant bank, focused on the high growth private capital markets of Sub-Sahara Africa. In 2016, AMC Trade Finance was launched, which provides flexible, secured trade finance to importers and exporters through a transactional trade finance model, to add to our existing corporate finance… Read more »

Douglas (Pug) Bennet 2017 Speaker

Douglas Bennet is the COO of GuarantCo’s Management Company and has been involved with GuarantCo since 2007.  Douglas started his career as a lawyer and has been advising, structuring, financing and arranging transactions, mainly in emerging and frontier markets, for almost 20 years.  GuarantCo provides contingent solutions to help bridge the gap between the local… Read more »

Jussi Ahonen 2021 Speaker

Jussi is leading the origination and execution of Digital Infrastructure and Solutions investments at Finnfund. Digital Infrastructure and Solutions (DIS) is a newly established team within the investment function. We invest in commercially attractive high impact businesses within the emerging markets digital value chain (Telecom & Tech), focusing on rural connectivity, access to data, and… Read more »

Kusanya Frederick Shindika 2017 Speaker

SeSeasoned Cotton Trader, New York Cotton Exchange, Memphis Cotton International, Newcot S.A, Loius Dreyfus Cotton International, Rio Verde S.A. Business Development Director – Petrovillage AG. managing operations for Africa South of Sahara. Alternative Investments and Structured Trade Finance trainee – UBS. Co-founder Serenity Capital Fund – Tanzania.

Lanre Oloniniyi 2017 Speaker

Lanre has over 15 years’ investment experience doing business between Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to co-founding Orbitt, Lanre was involved in originating investment ideas and raising the required capital to grow start-ups in Africa, including Sankuru, First African Gold and Tranergy Capital. He also worked at BP, Subsea 7 and Citi in… Read more »

Thapelo Tsheole 2017 Speaker

Thapelo Tsheole

Mr Tsheole is a seasoned Financial Markets expert with a cumulative experience of over 19 years having worked for the Central Bank Bank of Botswana and Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE). Mr Tsheole holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Single Major Economics) from the University of Botswana and a Master of Commerce (MComm) in Financial Markets… Read more »

Andrew Chimphondah 2017 Speaker

Chief Executive Officer-Housing Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd Board Member-Housing Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd CA (SA), MBA (Durham-U.K), currently completing PHD I am an accomplished Chartered Accountant with an MBA from Durham University from the United Kingdom. I enjoyed a fast-track development career with Unilever as Group Financial Manager of Unilever South East Africa. I was… Read more »

Mohamed Elakhdar 2017 Speaker

Mohamed Elakhdar is the Managing Director of Beltone Investment Banking where he provides advisory services for a full range of transactions, including mergers, sales, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, divestitures and other restructurings. He brings over ten years of experience across various industries including healthcare, energy, transportation, aerospace & defense, consumer products, financial services, telecom, oil… Read more »

Alberto Didoni 2017 Speaker

Alberto is the Founder of Varcando and has worked on impact investments for the past 15 years. He started off his career as a consultant for major development agencies such as the Inter- American Development Bank and the World Bank before becoming an Operations Officer at the International Finance Organisation (IFC) in Lima (Peru). In… Read more »