Archives: Speakers

Sheila Kyarisiima 2022 speaker

Sheila Kyarisiima is a partner at NISK Capital, a boutique corporate finance and transaction advisory firm covering the East African market. In her role, she has overseen the successful fundraise of close to US $ 1 billion dollars for a variety of clients including blue chip firms and rapidly growing SMEs in the markets of… Read more »

Harriet Jackson 2022 speaker

Harriet Jackson has over ten years of debt investment experience in emerging markets, primarily in climate finance and sustainable food. Since 2020 she leads debt investments in sustainable food companies in West Africa at responsAbility.

Juulia Laakso 2022 speaker

Juulia Laakso is a Partner and Director for Business Development at Tramigo Africa, the market leader in creating sustainable and transparent mobility and supply-chain ecosystems through connecting vehicles and assets. As a visionary, she saw the massive potential of Tramigo’s long-term presence and partner network across the continent. She invested in the company in the… Read more »

Mo Baluchi 2022 speaker

Mo Baluchi is a highly experienced Commercial Director and Executive Client Advisor with a track record of successful results in building, enhancing and servicing strategic distribution alliances within the international financial services industry (mainly within EMEA). His current role involves enabling access for private and institutional clients, families, intermediaries and private offices to Standard Bank… Read more »

Jack Kimani 2022 speaker

Jackson Kimani is the Founding CEO of the Climate Action Platform for Africa (CAP-A), a novel platform of initiatives focusing on climate action opportunities as drivers of economic growth in Africa. It is rooted in a strong conviction that the African continent can play a key role in combating climate change as it is well… Read more »

Simon Davis 2022 speaker

Simon Davis has spent nearly 20 years in the automotive industry building simple solutions to complex problems. Simon Davis joined the Global Vehicle Trust as the sole employee in 2019. He lead the creation of the OX Delivers business model and technology, securing equity and grant funding to enable OX Delivers to be spun out… Read more »

Leslie Marbury 2022 speaker

Leslie Marbury serves as the Acting Chief Operating Officer of the U.S. government’s Prosper Africa initiative. In this role, she advances the U.S. government’s efforts to substantially increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and African countries. She coordinates across 17 participating U.S. departments and agencies to facilitate transactions, strengthen business climates, and… Read more »

Anne-Marie Chidzero 2022 speaker

Anne-Marie Chidzero is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the investment arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of FSD Mozambique, and Co-founder of Alitheia IDF Managers, a private equity fund manager investing in women-led businesses. Anne-Marie Chidzero has a wealth of experience in building African financial markets. Across her career, she… Read more »

James Odede 2022 speaker

James Odede is a Kenyan tech entrepreneur. The Co-founder and CTO of Aquarech, AgTech leveraging mobile technology to improve fish farmers’ productivity, enable market access, and create an inclusive aquaculture value chain in Africa. A graduate of Maseno University with a Bsc. in Computer Science and Technology, James Odede is passionate about technology, education, Agtech… Read more »

Brendan Mullen 2022 speaker

Brendan J. Mullen is a co-founder and Managing Director of Secha Capital, an early-stage impact private equity firm in Southern Africa. Secha started in 2017. Its first fund invested in ten South African companies, creating 200+ jobs with an average revenue growth of 12x. Its second fund scales its Operator-Investor model at $50M. It focuses… Read more »