Saad Sheikh is a Partner and heads Enko’s SDG aligned, impact focused private credit strategy, located in the London office. Prior to joining Enko, Saad was a Principal at an Africa focused fund, where he was responsible for deal origination, structuring, and execution for their credit fund. Saad focused on various industries in Africa, including… Read more »
Surabhi is an experienced Financial Technology professional who has worked as a Strategy Consultant driving digital transformation for Tier 1 financial services clients across the United States, United Kingdom, and India. She led projects focused on digital wealth management initiatives targeting Millennials and Gen Z for global leaders in banking. Surabhi now works as the… Read more »
Rory is a well-respected private markets practitioner with more than 18 years’ experience. He is responsible for leading the private markets team investment activities. This includes managing strategy, portfolio design and implementation for discretionary and advisory private markets allocations across all sub classes, from early stage to private equity, mezzanine and infrastructure type investments.
Mr. Roland Laljee is an experienced marketer with over 15 years of experience in marketing, PR and cooperate relations. Having started his career in the public sector he moved on to work extensively in the private sector until this year joining the Seychelles Investment Board. He has experience in working in the manufacturing and beverages… Read more »
Energy and Infrastructure investor and executive with 25 years’ experience. Established Mubadala Infrastructure Partners’ first African office, founding member of the listed private equity infrastructure fund, PME African Infrastructure Opportunities, and adviser to I-Squared Capital. Established and led the $3bn renewable energy transition strategy for a JSE-listed mining house, and founded African Frontier Capital, a… Read more »
CEO and Co-Founder: Rob is a third-time founder with 9 years of experience working in international lending in London. He sits on the board of an educational NGO and has lived in East Africa for 4 years
Our CEO, Rizwana, is a highly accomplished Barrister from England and Wales and who called to the bar in Mauritius. With an impressive tenure spanning nearly two decades in the global business sector, she possesses a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of business, ranging from structuring and administration to legal and policy formulation. Rizwana has… Read more »
“Rivhatshinyi Mandavha is a senior investment manager for Norfund, the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with a mission is to create jobs and to improve lives by investing in sustainable businesses, in their Southern Africa regional offices overseeing investments into Renewable Energy. Her finance career spans, Private Credit, Private Equity, Project Finance, and Investment… Read more »
“A Financial Advisory, Trade and Investment Promotions’ practitioner with almost two decades of enterprise leadership spanning Financial Markets, Technology & Economic Integration. As Managing Director of LMI Land Holdings, Richmond leads LMI’s Trade and Investment strategy across ASEAN (+3), EU, UK/US, China, India and Japan with emerging Special Economic Zones & leading Industrial Parks in… Read more »
“Richard studied at Kingston University in Accountancy and Finance and initially worked in a Chartered Accountancy practice before moving into financial recruitment. He has over 30 years’ professional recruitment experience, operating and managing businesses recruiting at the most senior level across Commerce and Industry, Sales and Marketing, IT, HR and Finance. Richard has previously held… Read more »