Archives: Speakers

Tarek Mouganie 2023 Speaker

Tarek is passionate about entrepreneurship and the creative industries as a means of enabling social and economic development. Tarek is the founder and Group of Affinity, a digital bank built in Ghana for Africa. Prior to Affinity, Tarek was a Director at Man Group (GLG Partners) and began his career as an academic at the… Read more »

Tania Eyanga 2023 Speaker

A native of DRCongo with a MBA in Finance, Ms Tania Eyanga is an astute international direct investments professional with over 14 years of experience in corporate financing, project funding and portfolio holdings management. She has acted as the Executive VP of Corporate Fundraising and Partnerships at MDT Innovations Sdn.Bhd/ Hela Technologies ApS, a Danish… Read more »

Tamim El Zein 2023 Speaker

Tamim is a co-founder of Seedstars Africa Ventures, an early-stage fund leading investment rounds in pre-series A and series A startups across the continent, with large follow-on capacity. In addition to capital, Seedstars Africa Ventures brings significant hands-on operational resources to support entrepreneurs on the ground, leveraging existing networks and operations in 25 African countries.

Susan Payne 2023 Speaker

“Susan has spent her career founding, building and managing businesses either focused on or located in global emerging markets, over the last decade primarily Africa. After having been trained as a lawyer and called to the Bar in Canada, Susan’s early work experience included senior management roles in securities trading over a decade with JP… Read more »

Stephen Alangbo 2023 Speaker

Stephen Alangbo is the Executive Director Technical Operations. He is a top management insurance leader, well-rounded in all facets of insurance business and have accumulated over 30years quality experience, working with Top Brands within the Insurance sector. As one of the 5 nominees for the African Insurance award of the CEO category of the year… Read more »

Sten Van Der Ham 2023 Speaker

Sten is co-founder of eBee Africa. Sten has international experience in the Telecoms and Bicycle Industry with a proven track record as CEO and Managing Director. Sten’s main responsibilities include eBee’s Continental Growth Strategy, Brand/Marketing & Sales and Product/Service Development. With eBee Sten combines his passion for cycling with his drive for making impact in… Read more »

Sophia Omar 2023 Speaker

“Sophia leads the Institute’s investor-specific work streams with a focus financing a just transition in the global south, and enabling pension schemes and charitable endowments to become impact investors. Sophia previously worked across delivery and business development in the digital education space. She also spent time working in international development in Pakistan and raising funds… Read more »

Smita Sanghrajka 2023 Speaker

Smita Sanghrajka is a Partner at KPMG International Development Advisory Services (IDAS) with over twenty years’ international development experience. Smita is the Engagement Partner for the Mastercard Foundation Fund for Resilience and Prosperity (FRP) where she oversees overall program implementation, quality assurance and ensures client liaison towards effective management and implementation of the program. Smita… Read more »

Simone Baur 2023 Speaker

“After studying Philosophy and Business Administration in Germany Simone completed an MSc at the LSE in Organisational Psychology and later an MBA from Harvard. She worked in Consulting, Investment Banking and Private Equity having never lost that interest in combining numbers with history of thought.”

Simon Davis 2023 Speaker

“Simon is the Founder and Managing Director of OX Delivers, an impact-driven startup delivering on-demand transport using electric trucks in growth markets. Simon joined the OX project in 2019 and led the creation of the OX Delivers proprietary business model and technology stack. He subsequently secured equity and grant funding to enable OX Delivers to… Read more »