Business Leader Speakers

Tarek Mouganie 2022 speaker

Founder , Affinity

Tarek Mouganie is the founder of Affinity, a full-fledged digitally-driven bank that provides affordable financial services to the underserved and unbanked, targeting eight out of the seventeen UN SDGs. Affinity…

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Greg Swenson 2022 speaker

Founding Partner , Brigg Macadam Ltd

Greg Swenson is a founding partner of Brigg Macadam Ltd, and emerging market investment banking firm in London. He has over thirty years of banking, alternative investments, and global markets…

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Olusiji Aina 2022 speaker

Country Director & Board Member, US-Africa Trade Council , Impact Amplifier

Olusiji Aina, is a Development Economists and Impact Investing Specialist. He is a strategist with professional competency in building high impact market relevant skills for economic development, creating employment and…

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Sebastien Duquet 2022 speaker

CCO , Sunfunder

As Chief Commercial Officer, Sebastien Duquet leads the development of SunFunder products and funds. He is particularly involved in the fundraising of the coming “Gigaton Empowerment fund”. From 20218 to…

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Suleiman Kiggundu 2022 speaker

Chief Investment Officer , Equator Capital Partners LLC

Suleiman Kiggundu is the Chief Investment Officer at Equator Capital Partners LLC, a private equity fund that manages the ShoreCap family of funds. He has 30 years experience in the…

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Julia Price 2022 speaker

Founder, CEO , Linea Capital

Julia Price is the co-founder and CEO of Linea Capital, a USAID-backed, Southern African investment company focused on building revenue-based finance as a financing alternative for growing African companies. Julia…

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Ned Rauch-Mannino 2022 speaker

President , Portsmouth Limited Company

Ned Rauch-Mannino serves as the President of Portsmouth Limited Company, leveraging strategic consulting and advice to advance natural resource and renewable energy development projects. He served as the U.S. Department…

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Michelle Haigh Osorio 2022 speaker

Investment Director , KawiSafi Ventures

Michelle Haigh Osorio is an investor in emerging markets renewable energy since 2007, previously at Conduit Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group before joining KawiSafi Ventures in 2018. At KawiSafi,…

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Michael Okaredje 2022 speaker

CEO , Pickmeup Technologies

Michael Okaredje is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Pickmeup Technologies, a transport technology company redesigning the way people move around their cities. Michael Okaredje graduated from Ambrose Alli…

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Yossef Ben-Meir 2022 speaker

President , High Atlas Foundation

Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir has been dedicated to the field of international development since he joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco in 1993.…

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