Archives: Speakers

Wasiu Balogun 2024 Speaker

Wasiu Balogun is the visionary behind Switch Recycling Innovations Ltd. He founded Polysmart Packaging Limited in 2013 and successfully scaled it into one of the top 10 packaging companies within seven years. With over 12 years of experience in banking in Nigeria and UK, Wasiu has extensive expertise in domestic and treasury operations, funds transfer,… Read more »

Wangui Muna 2024 Speaker

Wangui Muna is a strategic leader with over 15 years of experience in sustainable finance, private sector development, and capacity building across Sub-Saharan Africa. With a strong foundation in strategic management, she excels in designing and implementing innovative and sustainable financial solutions that drive economic growth and enhance livelihoods, particularly in the agricultural and renewable… Read more »

Wale Aboyade 2024 Speaker

Wale Aboyade is the Global Director, Government Enablement, at GEAPP. An infrastructure development and finance expert with experience in engineering, finance, policy reform and market shaping, Wale has a proven track-record in delivering high impact infrastructure programs and projects in Africa.

Wairimu Karanja 2024 Speaker

Wairimu Karanja is a Partner at Persistent, Africa’s Climate Venture Builder. She is Kenya and based in Nairobi. Wairimu manages the corporate, legal, ESG and compliance matters at Persistent. She also works with the investment teams and supports entrepreneurs with venture building advice. Wairimu has 15 years’ legal experience in leading African and international firms…. Read more »

Vukosi Maluleke 2024 Speaker

Vukosi is the Head of Treasury within the Treasury and Balance Sheet Management division at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA). With over 15 years of experience spanning across banking, asset management, development finance institutions (DFIs), and insurance companies, Vukosi’s expertise encompasses liquidity management, bilateral debt funding, and capital market issuances in both domestic… Read more »

Vivianne Infante 2024 Speaker

Vivianne is a member of British International Investment’s Africa Coverage Team. Prior to this role she was Country Representative in the Democratic Republic of Congo and thereafter in Ethiopia, since 2015. Her coverage responsibilities included investment deal origination, portfolio management support, engagement with the British and Ethiopian governments and all realms arising from representing British… Read more »

Vinay Guddye 2024 Speaker

Vinay has worked across several countries in Africa and the Middle East for Multinational Companies such as Unilever and Maersk. With a degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town, Vinay possesses a unique blend of technical and strategic expertise across multiple sectors, ranging from engineering to Quality Assurance, Marketing and Branding, Supply… Read more »

Victoria Miles 2024 Speaker

As an expert in the delivery of innovative structured solutions for clients in Emerging Markets, Victoria brings a deep knowledge of project and infrastructure finance, together with Emerging Markets investment and risk management to the ImpactA Global management team. Previously a Managing Director in JP Morgan’s London Emerging Markets trading and syndication teams, she has… Read more »

Victor Lagesse 2024 Speaker

Mr. Victor Lagesse is the head of business development for DTOS Rwanda. Over the past year, Victor has successfully launched DTOS Rwanda, the only Fund Administrator in KIFC.

Victor Bangura 2024 Speaker

In August 2008, Mr. Victor Bangura joined the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) as an Investment Promotion Officer, which is now a Directorate within the National Investment Board (NIB) as provided in the NIB Act 2022. In March 2011, he was promoted to Investment Promotion Manager and later as Director of Investment… Read more »