Archives: Speakers

Fatma Salah 2023 Speaker

Dr. Fatma Salah is the managing partner of Riad & Riad, a leading Egyptian law firm. Dr. Fatma has more than 22 years experience in corporate law, energy and renewables, infrastructure, cross-border transactions, and dispute resolution. She represents local and international corporations and financial institutions from the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia… Read more »

Faruk Aliyu 2023 Speaker

“Faruk Aliyu is a highly skilled and results-oriented leader with extensive experience in building and scaling companies. He is based in Abuja, Nigeria, and has worked for and built several companies in the venture capital, utility, hospitality and real estate industries. He is an alum of Georgetown University’s highly touted real estate program. He is… Read more »

Faheem Chowdhury 2023 Speaker

“Portfolio Lead for Manufacturing Africa responsible for pipeline management and delivery of deal support across Kenya, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Senegal for the FCDO funded programme. Previously an economist and corporate finance professional in the UK with PwC, and small UK regional social impact fund board member. Currently an angel investor in spare time.”

Fadi Bassir 2023 Speaker

“Fadi Bassir is a Manager in the Private Equity Funds and Co-investment team at British International Investment (BII). He is responsible for sourcing, executing and managing funds and co-investments across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. Fadi has invested in and managed funds across the VC, SME, mid-cap, large-cap, credit, real estate and infrastructure categories. He… Read more »

Eva Yazhari 2023 Speaker

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.

Eugene du Plessis 2023 Speaker

“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 Eshetu 2023 Speaker

“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 2023 Speaker

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 Nell 2023 Speaker

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 »