Archives: Speakers

Audrey-Cynthia Yamadjako 2023 Speaker

Audrey-Cynthia YAMADJAKO is coordinating the African Green Bank Initiative (AG3F) at the African Development Bank. She uses her international experiences in the banking sector, financial services as well as in the environment and climate finance, to develop innovative mechanism aiming to unlock the participation of the private sector in the support of a low-carbon, climate-resilient… Read more »

Ashvin Rishiraj Aukhjee 2023 Speaker

Ashvin is the co-founder and director of Arch Global Consult Ltd. He has nearly twenty years of solid and proven experience in the setting up and administration of global business companies, different types of Fund structure, Re-insurance, Re-insurance Broker & Insurance Manager, Foundations and Trusts in Mauritius.

Ashish Patel 2023 Speaker

Ashish has been involved with growth companies for over 20 years and has strategic, operational and investment experience. Before joining Aavishkaar Capital, as Managing Partner, to lead Africa, he was the Managing Director for Sub-Sahara Africa at Abraaj, based in Nairobi. Prior to that, he headed Strategy, Emerging Markets and Corporate Development at AVG Technologies… Read more »

Aryeh Green 2023 Speaker

Aryeh Green is Chief StrategyOfficer at Gigawatt Global, a solar energy developer for Africa based in Jerusalem. Aryeh is also the author of the book My Israel Trail: Finding Peace in the Promised Land about his hike on the 800-mile Israel National Trail from Dan to Eilat. Aryeh has been an advisor to Natan Sharansky… Read more »

Arturo Garcia-Alonso 2023 Speaker

“He holds MA degrees in Law, Economics and Business Administration from ICADE and completed his education with an MBA at IESE Business School. His professional career began at the Mercantile Registry of Madrid, followed by audit and consulting at Deloitte, financial analyst at Mapfre, consulting and research at IESE Business School, financial and strategy consulting… Read more »

Anusha Naidu 2023 Speaker

Anusha heads up Corporate Finance, including capital raising, structuring and investor relations at Select Africa, a pan African housing-focused microfinance institution. She is a South African Chartered Accountant with specialist financial services experience across local and international capital markets. Prior to joining Select in 2016, Anusha worked at various PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) global offices. She spent… Read more »

Anuj Sharma 2023 Speaker

“Anuj Sharma is an international finance, technology and media professional. He’s been an entrepreneur, a consultant & advisor and an executive at large global corporates. Over last 30 years, as an entrepreneur he has founded several businesses, created over 10 brands, created SaaS based FinTech platforms. As a consultant and advisor, he’s held a wide… Read more »

Antti Partanen 2023 Speaker

“Antti joined Finnfund in March 2022 and before joining Finnfund, he was in Private Equity business for almost 20 years focusing on Eastern Europe and the Baltic States. Before entering private equity business, he held various positions in corporate banking with Finnish corporates. At Finnfund, Antti is member of Financial Institutions team covering microfinance institutions,… Read more »

Antonia Bothner 2023 Speaker

20yrs+ Investing, VC investing & capital raising, Institutional Equity Portfolio Management and Sales in Emerging Markets with stages at KPMG (SA), Credit Suisse (London), Investec (London), British Airways (London). Antonia is a Post Grad of the University of Cape Town (Accounting, Tax, Audit) and holds a Qualified CA (SA) and UKCP British Registered Psychotherapist. Has… Read more »

Annika Brouwer 2023 Speaker

“Annika is an analyst within Ninety One’s Sustainability team. Her focus is on climate transition within and beyond Ninety One’s portfolio; including our advocacy initiatives, supporting the development of a Transition Plan assessment framework for the investment teams, working closely with the investment teams as they assess corporate transition plans, supporting our climate-related strategic engagement… Read more »