Phil has considerable experience in structuring and closing international equity and debt offerings for banks and other financial institutions. He has served as Director of Investments, Africa for Equator Capital Partners, LLC since 2013. From 2005- 2013, Phil was Senior Vice President at WorldBusiness Capital, where he managed origination, underwriting, closing, collections and portfolio management… Read more »
Judith is a specialist in financial market development for developing countries. She has more than two decades’ experience as an investment banker at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank and spent six years at SOAS where she was research assistant on the EU FESSUD project on financialisation, adjunct lecturer and completed a PhD in financial sector… Read more »
Richard Wangwe is the head of agricultural lending at Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited, where he focuses on growing and retaining high-value agribusiness clients and designing products to encourage the adoption of agro-finance products in corporate, commercial, and smallholder farming systems that will maximize business growth and profitability targets. Previously, Mr Wangwe was the East Africa Director at… Read more »
As the Chief Executive of IPGL Limited, the principle shareholder of Exotix, Mark brings considerable expertise in navigating frontier and emerging markets, most recently as Partner and Global Head of Financial Services at Actis, a major private equity group focused on Africa, Asia and Latin America. During 11 years at Actis, Mark was responsible for… Read more »
Founder and CEO of 4G Capital, an African mobile money fintech business based in Kenya. He has created and led scalable distribution systems in emerging markets around the world with extensive experience in corporate governance and risk management. After a distinguished military career he has provided intelligence-led consultancy and strategic advice to a number of… Read more »
Tshidi Hagan is an investment professional working for Old Mutual Emerging Market’s (“OMEM’s”) Africa Strategic Investment Fund. Her role is focused on Strategic Investments and Partnerships particularly in FinTech and InsurTech that have the potential to accelerate growth and build insights and future options in markets where OMEM has a presence, wants to grow or… Read more »
Thierry graduated with a Master’s Degree in Applied Finance from Paris IX-Dauphine University in France in 1990 later joining PwC in London and qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in England and Wales in 1993. He started his career in investment banking in London at Flemings later joining Blakeney Management, a London-based investment boutique, focusing on… Read more »