Archives: Speakers

With 26 years of experience in the insurance and investment sectors, at Allianz and McKinsey & Company, Joerg Weber is MUA’s incoming Group CEO. Whilst at Allianz he occupied several executive roles in different countries (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands) and most recently as ‘Directeur Général’ at Allianz Maroc, where Joerg Weber spent the last 4 years…. Read more »

Jade Bouhmouch is the co-founder of Ambo Ventures, a venture capital firm helping Africa’s leading entrepreneurs tackle climate change. He is driven by the knowledge that tackling climate change requires commercially viable innovation that is ready to scale now – and that African entrepreneurs are ideally placed to deliver this. This was what drove Jade… Read more »

Having started John Felicite career at Robert Flemings in equity research, John Felicite has over 25 years’ industry experience. During this time he has had a long career in portfolio management at London and Capital Asset Management focusing on clients from the African continent. With a keen interest on the entrepreneurial side of his clients’… Read more »

Grand Point is positioned as consultancy firm assisting select clients and project partners with their business development and expansion plans into emerging markets, focussing on high impact alternative investment sectors geared for growth. Expertise of the founding team offer decades of experience in deal origination, asset management, private equity and real estate. We engage with… Read more »

Bart van Liebergen is an Investment Officer in FMO’s Financial Institutions Africa team. He focuses particularly on southern Africa. Previously, Bart was an advisor at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, DC, where he focused on fintech and digital transformation in banking. He has an MSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and… Read more »

Francisco Machado leads our investment and portfolio teams, managing five assets across multiple geographies in a variety of sectors. He recently developed our strategic review and positioning, as well as implementing our refined investment strategy. Francisco Machado is skilled in identifying overlooked opportunities to solve critical challenges associated with the provision of water, food, healthcare,… Read more »

Yvonne Okafor is an Investment professional passionate about development and community in and around Africa. As an Investment Officer at Untapped Global based in Nairobi, she co-leads the CapEx Investment Fund which invests in small and medium-sized businesses using a specialized data-driven approach called Smart Asset Financing. She’s also the co-founder of A&A Collective, a… Read more »

Jim Chu is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist dedicated to creating opportunity in emerging markets. Jim Chu is the founder and CEO of Untapped Global, whose mission is to bridge the investment gap in emerging markets by creating alternative financing opportunities for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Through its Smart Asset Financing investment model, Untapped creates… Read more »

Nimrod Gerber is the Managing Partner of Vital Capital Fund and a member of our investment committee. He has over 15 years of ground-level operational experience implementing investments, partnerships and projects in Africa and emerging markets, that deliver environmental and societal impact at scale. Nimrod Gerber’s focuses on creating economic growth that has a direct… Read more »

Sven Rosenberg is an experienced business developer who has been working in the technology sector for more than 10 years. Has been through the building of startup cycle and currently working on another major one – Postnest.