Speaker Group: Business Leader

Peter Hinton 2020 Speaker

peter hinton

Co-Lead, Affordable Education Finance, CapitalPlus , CEO of SDG and Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Peter has over 25 years of commercial experience in Africa, the United Kingdom and S E Asia investing and transforming financial institutions, banks, fair-trade and not-for profit organisations. Peter is CEO of SDG that advises impact investors… Read more »

Tony Tiyou 2021 Speaker

Tony Tiyou

Tony Tiyou is the Founder and CEO of Renewables in Africa, a Clean Energy engineering consultancy and media platform which vision is to Bring (Back) Power to Africa. Tony previously worked for a decade as Development Engineer, Project Manager, Lead Consultant and Business Development Manager in several companies in the Automotive and the Renewables Industries…. Read more »

Michelle Haigh Osorio 2020 Speaker

Michelle Haigh

Michelle Haigh Osorio is Investment Director at KawiSafi Ventures, driving investments in renewable energy access and related technologies in East Africa. Michelle has worked in emerging markets private equity since 2007, previously investing in renewable power projects in Latin America while at Conduit Capital Partners and the Carlyle Group. Earlier in her career, she worked… Read more »

Jasper Graf von Hardenberg 2021 Speaker

Jasper Graf von Hardenberg 

Jasper Graf von Hardenberg is a co-founder and Chief Executive Office of Daystar Power. Jasper has more than 8 years of experience working in top-management consulting and senior management positions in sub-Saharan Africa & Europe for TGI Group – an African diversified group of companies – and Bain & Company. ​ At Bain & Company,… Read more »

Charlie Blair 2020 Speaker

Charlie Blair

Charlie Blair, Managing Director, joined Gravitricity in 2015 having been Head of Marine Energy in the Carbon Trust’s Innovation Team. He is an experienced commercial leader, delivering millions of pounds of innovation funding, and has 15 years’ experience in clean energy technology innovation. He has supported numerous early-stage technology start-ups ranging from electric vehicles through… Read more »

Steven van Weede 2020 Speaker

Steven van Weede

Steven is an investment banker by training, having joined Palladium Impact Capital (formerly Enclude) in 2014, after working in the investment banking teams at Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America) and Citi in both London and Johannesburg. In these firms, he specialised in corporate finance (balance sheet optimisation, structuring equity and equity-linked financings and debt… Read more »

Patrick Mugabo 2020 Speaker

MUGABO Patrick

Patrick MUGABO-COO Mobisol by Engie 4years experience in solar energy sector, and more than 10years experience in supply chain management both in public and private sectors. Former Head of supply chain for the One Laptop per Child Project, and Co-project manager of the positivo assembling plant project. Bachelors degree in supply chain management from Tshwane… Read more »

Christophe Litt 2020 Speaker

Christophe Litt

After graduating in law from the University Catholic of Louvain and obtaining a master degree (LLM) from Georgetown University, Christophe started working for the law firm Linklaters in London and Brussels advising corporates and banks on M&A transactions. He also specialised in capital markets transactions and financial regulation. After 5 years, he was appointed as… Read more »

Danai Musandu 2020 Speaker

Danai Musandu

Danai Musandu is the Investor Relations Associate at Goodwell Investments. In her previous role at Goodwell Investments she was an Investment Associate building the Southern African portfolio. She joined the firm in 2016 as the first employee of the South African office. Goodwell Investments is an early stage impact investment firm focused on inclusive growth… Read more »