Archives: Speakers

Karim Arabi is an Investment Officer at IFC, focusing on Private Equity funds and co-investments across Africa. He has led several LP commitments for IFC in Africa and focused on growing co-investments alongside funds in high impact, high growth opportunities. Karim Arabi represents IFC on multiple Limited Partners Advisory Committees (LPACs). Karim Arabi has over… Read more »

Agnès Huang is a Senior Equity Investment Officer at PROPARCO, the French Development Financial Institution. Agnès Huang covers mainly Africa and Middle-East and works on Financial Institutions and Venture Capital transactions. Prior to that, she was based in the PROPARCO’s South-East Asia office in Bangkok, where she was in charge of originating new projects in… Read more »

Michelle Patrick-Akinrinade is currently the Anglophone West Africa Investment Advisor to the US Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Prior to this role, Michelle Patrick-Akinrinade worked at Chapel Hill Denham (an independent Nigerian investment banking firm). She has extensive experience in corporate finance, investments and strategy and has executed transactions and worked across a breadth of industries… Read more »

Kilonzo Mbwele joined Enabling Qapital in 2020 and has worked with the founding Partners to build the impact investment activities across Africa and the Middle East. He is a seasoned investment professional with over ten years in the region across banking, microfinance, fintech, education, energy, and agriculture. Kilonzo Mbwele previously worked at BlueOrchard Finance in… Read more »

Philip Lucky is the Head of Investment Marketing Department at the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), a Government institution in charge of accelerating economic growth and development of the country, where he is tasked with aligning RDB’s strategic priorities with the National Vision and driving interventions to attract more investments in the country. Prior to that,… Read more »

Sarah Whitten is USTDA’s Regional Financing and Implementation Manager for the Sub-Saharan Africa based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to USTDA, she was with Standard Chartered Bank managing a portfolio of South African headquartered multinationals and global corporate regional offices. Prior to this, she was with the Debt Capital Markets team based in New York,… Read more »

Miranda Abraham is Co-Head of Loan Syndications at Rand Merchant Bank. She has worked across loan and debt capital markets for over 20 years. She spent the first half of her career covering a wide range of syndications across EMEA, and then in 2010 began to focus exclusively on financing for Developing Markets. Miranda Abraham… Read more »

Laurence Berman is a co-founder of Biolevel. He drives all commercial expansion efforts in Europe and Africa and leads work around raising capital for the company. He started is career in New York at Morgan Stanley, later working in London and Frankfurt as a senior executive for a real estate private equity fund. His shift… Read more »

Bejoy Nettikadan is the founder and Chief Executive of NetOne. A chartered accountant turned entrepreneur, Bejoy Nettikadan is passionate about creating impact through technology.Bejoy Nettikadan founded NetOne in 2007, at the age of 23 and has led the team to deliver impact, innovation and growth over the past 15 years of the Group’s existence. He… Read more »

Mike Mompi is Managing Partner of Enza Capital, a venture fund investing in early-stage African technology companies solving large and meaningful problems. He sits on the Boards of multiple African technology companies including SeamlessHR, Craydel, and Tuteria.com. Enza Capital is based out of Nairobi Kenya, has made 33 investments into 23 portfolio companies through its… Read more »