Archives: Speakers

Eva Yazhari is a seasoned investor, conscious entrepreneur, leading author, and the CEO and founder of Beyond Capital Ventures, an early-stage impact venture capital fund offering a diversified portfolio of early-stage purpose-driven companies.

“Appointed Chief Investment Officer for the Izwe Group, Eugene has executive responsibility for all activities of value creation. This includes Mergers and Acquisitions, Treasury, Marketing and Human Capital across the Financial Services Group. The Izwe Africa Group is a Mauritius registered financial services company operating in five countries. After completion of his BCom Hons degree,… Read more »

“Ermias is the CEO of FSD Ethiopia, leading the establishment of the FSD Ethiopia office and developing the strategic interventions needed to develop the financial sector in Ethiopia, working alongside the regulators, the private sector, and key development partners. Prior to that, Ermias held the position of Advisory Partner at Grant Thornton Ethiopia and CEO… Read more »

Erik Renander is an institutional portfolio manager for Emerging Markets Investment Management based in London. For the last 10 years Erik has been investing in African public equities and fixed income markets.

Erica is currently head of private debt in the Sanlam Investments Alternatives business unit. Previously she was a credit fund manager in the alternatives sector. She joined Gensec Bank in 2004 and moved from Finance to the Credit Analysis department in 2005 when Gensec Bank became Sanlam Capital Markets. She was moved to Cape Town… Read more »

“Eric Dupont is a senior director in Fitch Ratings’ financial institutions group. He started his career with Fitch 20 years ago. After covering numerous countries in Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa from London, he returned to Fitch Paris in 2002. He is now responsible for the ratings of banks in the Middle… Read more »

Eric, is an entrepreneur and the CEO of Lipa Later, which is a credit, payments and shopping platform that operates in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Rwanda. Eric attended Babson College, the world’s #1 Entrepreneurship University, and Stanford Graduate School of Business: Stanford Seed 2019. Eric has been widely recognized for his entrepreneurial achievements; by Forbes,… Read more »

Enrique is a seasoned syndicator with a 13-year experience mobilizing private and public debt to IFC projects and clients in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Latin America. During the last 5 years, he has played an active role syndicating debt in Africa across sectors (Infrastructure, Manufacturing, Agribusiness, Services and FIs, including Fintech).