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Akinwale Ojomo 2021 Speaker

AKINWALE OJOMO

Executive Director, HomeD, Nigeria CEO, Diaspora Innovation Institute Consultant, GPP MBA. Consulting in global banking operations, developmental consulting, diaspora marketing, employee volunteering programmes, globalization, faith-based initiatives and youth empowerment. With Citigroup, Chams and Center for Management Development; led projects implementation to create jobs in Nigeria through entrepreneurship. Currently, via the Diaspora Innovation Institute, with partnership… Read more »

Harrison Byrnes 2021 Speaker

Harrison Byrnes

Harrison is responsible for identifying strategic partnerships as well as investigating and analysing opportunities to expand and grow the AgUnity community. Prior to AgUnity, Harrison focused primarily on consulting for large scale infrastructure investments and transactions.

Peter Williams 2021 Speaker

Peter Williams

Peter is President of IIRR, one of the world’s largest rural development organizations. Previously, he worked for the World Bank as an Expert Advisor before which he founded and led ARCHIVE Global – an NGO using design solutions to improve health. For almost 20 years, Peter has delivered projects on 5 continents and has taught… Read more »

Patrycja Kula-Verster 2021 Speaker

Patrycja Kula-Verster

Patrycja, has been with the JSE for 12 years, of which most of this time has been spent focussing on equity origination. Patrycja works in the Primary Market Division which is responsible for origination of new listings across the 3 asset classes, Equity, Debt and Structured Products as well as co creation and development of… Read more »

Hichem Omezzine 2021 Speaker

Hichem Omezzine

Hichem Omezzine joined TPG in January 2021 as Managing Director & Business Unit Partner in the Rise Fund, focused on African investments and impact investments. Mr Omezzine has over 14 years of experience in Private equity and Investment banking spanning multiple countries in Europe, Asia and Africa. Prior to TPG, Mr Omezzine was a Director… Read more »

Guy Baron 2021 Speaker

Guy Baron

Guy Baron is the Director, Head of Investment at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), leading investment related activities across TBI’s footprint of 17 countries in Africa. Prior to his current role, Guy was Chief Investment Officer of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), Rwanda’s Investment Promotion & Private Sector Development Agency. Appointed by… Read more »

Serigne Mansour Gaye 2021 Speaker

Serigne Mansour Gaye

Serigne Mansour Gaye is a financial and investment professional and a social/tech entrepreneur. He has also spent many years working for several companies such as Bloomberg, KKR, AXA and Mintel performing various roles in Market Analysis, Corporate Governance and Investment Strategy. He is an Experienced Government Relations, Trade Facilitation with an in-depth knowledge of frontier… Read more »

Charles Awanda 2021 Speaker

charles Awanda

Charles Awanda is a Certified Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Expert, Doctoral Candidate and Researcher in Organizational Psychology, Leadership and Innovation from Touro University. His research focuses on the social psychology dynamics of knowledge systems and innovation within organizations. He graduated Cum Laude with a Master’s in Managerial Communication from Northwestern University and he is holder of… Read more »

Grant Kurland 2021 Speaker

Grant Kurland

Grant co-founded Bayport Management Ltd (BML) with Stuart Stone in 2002, and is the joint group CEO of BML. Grant started his career at Nando’s in 1992 where he developed Nando’s franchises internationally, including in several African countries. In 1999, he joined Credit Direct, a micro-credit operation, which was acquired by African Bank Investments Limited… Read more »

Thomas Mundy 2021 Speaker

Tom Mundy

Based out of Johannesburg, Tom has the dual role of heading JLL’s Capital Markets and International Capital Coverage business lines for Sub-Saharan Africa. In the last 18 months, Tom has advised on over $500mn of completed transactions in Africa and sourced some $400mn of offshore transactions on behalf of South African listed property funds in… Read more »