Speaker Group: Business Leader

Milena Loayza 2021 Speaker

Milena Loayza

Milena Loayza is currently Head of Financial Institutions at BIO, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing countries. She displays more than 15 years of experience in the financial sector. She has been with BIO since 2012 and is responsible for covering direct equity and debt investment in financial institutions through the emerging markets in which… Read more »

Micheal Kirungi 2021 Speaker

Micheal Kirungi

Micheal has over 10 years of experience in investing and provision of business development services. Micheal is the founder of an organization called Masindi Community Foundation (MCF). MCF employs a blended approach that includes business development services and investments to build social businesses in Uganda. Micheal has invested in and provided business development services to… Read more »

Maya Horgan Famodu 2021 Speaker

Maya Horgan Famodu

Maya Horgan Famodu is Founder & MD at Ingressive Capital, a $10 Million VC Fund I and $50 Million Fund II targeting early stage startups across Sub-Saharan Africa’s key tech markets. Ingressive Capital Fund I has seeded some of Africa’s fastest-growing businesses, including Paystack (sold for $200M+ to Stripe); 54gene (backed by Adjuvant, IFC fund,… Read more »

Steven Gray 2021 Speaker

Steven Gray 

Tenacious and seasoned corporate executive with over 30 years of demanding multinational roles within challenging environments of Africa and the Middle East, delivering exemplary commercial governance, risk management and business transformation success within multinational companies like Taylor Woodrow, Lonrho and providing consultancy and advisory services to international and African companies to raise funds for their… Read more »

Justin Tinsey 2021 Speaker

Justin Tinsey

Justin Tinsey, Founder and CEO of Greentech -Built Nigeria’s largest solar and lithium distribution company 2020-2021 -11 years business development experience in Africa (30+ countries) -M.A. Boston University, B.A. Michigan State University

Damien Jacquart 2021 Speaker

Damien Jacquart

Damien is in charge of the practice Financial Advisory in Francophone Africa. He has extensive experience for the realization of due diligence, modelling and valuation services for Private investors or Private-Equity funds, in various sectors .

Ghazi Darghouth 2021 Speaker

Ghazi Darghouth

Holder of an MBA from Henley Business School, Ghazi Darghouth started his career in the health sector in 2012 by joining the Amen santé group as director of development. At the end of 2014, he launched the “Institut des Métiers de Santé – IMS” a continuing education institute specialized in Healthcare using medical simulation technology… Read more »

Nadia Kouassi Coulibaly 2021 Speaker

Nadia Kouassi Coulibaly

Nadia is Head of Research at the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA). She has eight years of experience working in the French private equity and venture capital industry. Prior to joining AVCA, Nadia worked as Head of Research at France Invest, the French Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, where she focused… Read more »

Juliet Munro 2021 Speaker

Juliet Munro

Juliet Munro was recently appointed Director of Digital Economy at FSD Africa. Before that, she has held various senior roles at FSD Africa since 2013, overseeing programmes that cut across financial sector themes – from credit, housing finance and insurance, to remittances, community finance, gender and financial integrity. She works closely with FSD Africa Investments… Read more »