Archives: Speakers

Andrew Bainbridge 2024 Speaker

Andy is in charge of Credit at Gateway Partners. He is also the Chair of the Private Infrastructure Development Group, Chair of the Infrastructure Crisis Facility Debt Pool LLP and Chair of Cable & Wireless Seychelles. Andy has worked in the Financial Services industry for over 30 years, and previously held senior positions in Standard… Read more »

Aupa Monyatsi 2024 Speaker

Aobakwe “Aupa” Monyatsi is the Group Chief Executive Officer for Letshego Africa Holdings Limited. Aupa is a well-rounded and experienced regional banker, with over 20 years of leadership expertise gained from various senior roles in Africa’s financial services sector. Prior to joining Letshego, Aupa led numerous teams within the Absa/Barclays Group, including being Managing Executive:… Read more »

Augustin Flory 2024 Speaker

Augustin has more than 20 years of experience working on private and development finance, including project finance, resource mobilisation; innovative financing; resource tracking and accountability and finance capacity strengthening. Immediately before joining Gavi, Augustin was an independent consultant and the Finance Expert of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement Executive Committee and the Chair of… Read more »

Ashish Patel 2024 Speaker

Ashish Patel is the Managing Partner-Credit at Aavishkaar Capital and leads the Africa market where he drives the vision of the ESG First Fund forward. An Industry veteran he has been involved with growth companies for over 20 years and has strategic, operational and investment experience. Before joining Aavishkaar Capital to lead Africa, he was… Read more »

Anushka Bogdanov 2024 Speaker

Anushka Bogdanov is an impact leader that pioneered the first Artificial Intelligence ESG rating disclosure tool for Africa through her company that she founded 15 years ago (Risk Insights) . Based in South Africa she is a risk management and data scientist with 3 decades of experience and worked on projects in 84 countries. She… Read more »

Anusha Naidu 2024 Speaker

Anusha heads up Corporate Finance, including capital raising, structuring and investor relations at Select Africa, a pan African housing-focused microfinance institution. She is a South African Chartered Accountant with specialist financial services experience across local and international capital markets. Prior to joining Select in 2016, Anusha worked at various PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) global offices. She spent… Read more »

Antti Partanen 2024 Speaker

Antti Partane has ca 20 years of experience in Private Equity in the Baltics and Eastern Europe. He has been in development finance for over 3 years. His focus is on financial institutions in developing markets, which have a solid impact on financial inclusion and enhancing entrepreneurial activity as well as female empowerment.

Anton van Vlaanderen 2024 Speaker

Anton has been involved in the venture capital industry in Africa since 2009. During this time he has been a partner at 4Di for all three of the firms funds to date. He brings an entrepreneurial background to the team along with having made a number of his own personal angel investments as well. Anton… Read more »

Anthony Harwood 2024 Speaker

Anthony Harwood is the founder of Shakespeare Court Serviced Apartments, launched in Lusaka in 2005. With a keen eye for strategic locations, Tony led Shakespeare Court to become one of the top serviced apartment providers in the region, offering consistent quality and convenience. His entrepreneurial journey is a testament to resilience and innovative thinking, having… Read more »

Anne-Marie Chidzero 2024 Speaker

Anne-Marie is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the investment arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of FSD Mozambique, and Co-founder of Alitheia IDF Managers, a private equity fund manager investing in women-led businesses. Anne-Marie has a wealth of experience in building African financial markets. Across her career, she has led… Read more »