Speaker Group: Business Leader

Nosa Osazuwa 2023 Speaker

“Nosa is a Partner at ENR Advisory, a specialist boutique energy and natural resources law firm that is substantially dedicated to a portfolio of clients operating in the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the petroleum industry, electric power sector, solid minerals and infrastructure sectors. He regularly advises on project development in these sectors with… Read more »

Nkem Onwuamaegbu 2023 Speaker

“Nkem Onwuamaegbu is Africa Regional Head for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Ms. Onwuamaegbu’s mandate is to expand MIGA’s business opportunities across all sectors in line with MIGA’s commitment to climate, low income and fragile and post-conflict… Read more »

Njord Andrewes 2023 Speaker

“Njord Andrewes is a Managing Partner of Accion Impact Management. In his previous role as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer with Accion’s Global Investments team, he was responsible for generating deal flow, building relationships with investors, structuring investments and leading negotiations, fundraising for portfolio companies, and developing exit opportunities. Njord has more than 20 years… Read more »

Njeri Ngaruiya 2023 Speaker

Njeri has over 17 years of private equity experience on the African continent. She is presently an Investment Director at IFU since 2018 with a focus on Financial Sector investing. She has held several board positions and previously served as Regional Director Africa for Incofin, Senior Investment Manager at Imperial Azara and Investment Manager at… Read more »

Nitin Collappen 2023 Speaker

Nitin Collappen is a highly accomplished executive with over 15 years of international business experience, currently leading as the CEO of StraFrin Corporate Services. With a rich background spanning multiple sectors, Nitin has honed his expertise in corporate, trust, and fund administration fiduciary services, which has proven invaluable to numerous companies.

Nirav Khambhati 2023 Speaker

Nirav manages Kaizenvest’s private equity operations in India and leads the firm’s results-based financing practice globally. The latter includes Kaizenvest’s role as the implementation partner of USAID’s blended finance initiatives – CATALYZE EduFinance South Africa and CATALYZE EduFinance Rwanda. Nirav chairs the board of trustees of Global Schools Forum and is a member of the… Read more »

Nimrod Gerber 2023 Speaker

Nimrod is the Managing Partner of Vital Capital Fund and a member of its Investment Committee. He has 20 years of ground-level operational experience implementing investments, partnerships, and projects in Africa and emerging markets, that deliver environmental and societal impact at scale. Nimrod focuses on creating economic growth that directly impacts on urban and rural… Read more »

Niklas Simola 2023 Speaker

“Background in finance and investments with a passion towards emerging and frontier markets in providing reliable and affordable connectivity as well as formalizing informal sectors through digital means. I am part of the digital infrastructure and solutions team where responsibilities include originating new investment opportunities, negotiating and executing investments and leading the project team throughout… Read more »

Nijhad Jamal 2023 Speaker

“Nijhad Jamal is the Managing Partner of Equator, an climate-tech VC investing in early-stage ventures in Energy, Agriculture and Mobility that are solving some of Sub-Saharan Africa’s greatest climate and income inequality challenges. Nijhad Jamal has over 15 years experience as an investor and entrepreneur, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

Nicole Poindexter 2023 Speaker

From starting her career as investment banker, Ms. Poindexter has had a variety of leadership roles in finance, government, and business. Prior to her founding Energicity Corp, she was an early employee at OPower prior to its successful IPO and subsequent sale to Oracle, founding and growing the business development team. In that role, she… Read more »