Severin joined Palladium’s Capital Advisory team in London in May 2021, where he now leads their work on Capital Mobilisation and is the Team Leader for the MOBILIST Product Platform. Previously he worked for the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), leading their work on Impact Investing. Prior to this, Severin spent 3 years working… Read more »
Segun Omoregie is a partner of G. Elias & Co, one of Nigeria’s leading business law firms. His practice focuses on private equity, financial services, capital markets, energy, privatisation and infrastructure and mergers and acquisitions. He has advised clients spanning across several sectors including hospitality, energy, and food and healthcare on several complex private equity… Read more »
Scott Onder is the Chief Investment Officer of Mercy Corps where he leads the agency’s global strategy for impact investing, innovative finance, Web3 initiatives, and strategic partnerships with technology ventures. Scott is also the Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Mercy Corps Ventures, the impact venture capital arm of Mercy Corps, which invests in high-impact… Read more »
Sarah Dusek is a managing partner and co-founder of Enygma Ventures, a private investment fund dedicated to supporting and investing in women-led businesses in Africa. Since Enygma’s inception in 2019, over 5,000 entrepreneurs have gone through Enygma’s investor-ready programs to learn how to build valuable companies. Sarah aims to demystify the complicated and often inaccessible… Read more »
“Sarah Whitten is the Regional Manager of Finance and Implementation at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). USTDA is the project preparation agency of the United States government, investing in early-stage infrastructure projects in Emerging Markets. In her capacity, Sarah works closely with financiers to secure funding for the projects supported by USTDA across… Read more »
Brian is a Partner at Novastar Ventures, one of the biggest and most experienced global VC fund managers in Africa. Prior to venture capital, Brian was an entrepreneur across multiple African markets including being part of the founding team that started Jumia, an award-winning African e-commerce platform, co-founding Zamsolar, a last-mile solar distribution company in… Read more »
“Sandra has worked with global top tier financial services institutions for over 20 years. She has worked with clients in South Africa & Africa, Middle East, Europe, and the US. Her main areas of focus are finance, treasury, risk, strategy, transformation and regulation. She currently coordinates Oliver Wyman’s Financial Services sustainability platform in the region…. Read more »
Samuel Chiwanda, is a Founder and CEO of Click Mobile a company that focuses on Messaging, USSD, Voice, and Airtime. The company has established in 2012, is based in Malawi, and nowadays is an International firm with over 8 branches across Africa and the Middle East. Sam has managed to grow Click Mobile from running… Read more »
“Founder and President of Newgiza University, Prof. Farid was appointed as the Minister of Health, on Jan 30th, 2011, elected as Member of the Parliament in 2010, Chairman of the Education and Research Committee in the Egyptian parliament, and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Al Aini, Cairo University from 2006 till January… Read more »
“Sam leads a team that focuses on turning promising ideas into breakthrough innovations, managing Founders Factory Africa’s Venture Studio to develop new businesses from the ground up. A former teacher and aspiring filmmaker, Sam takes a design-led approach to problem solving, creating products, services, and business models that are equal parts scalable and sustainable. As… Read more »