Speaker Group: Business Leader

Ron is the Head of Global Sustainable Financing of Menomadin Group, a diversified holding company with investments, operations, and philanthropy focused on Africa across all major SDGs. For the past 15 years, Ron has invested in impact tech startups that operate in SSA to address gaps in delivering primary products and services to previously excluded… Read more »

Simba is a seasoned impact investment executive focuses on financing businesses that empower underserved and financially excluded communities and individuals. Simba has more 12 years’ experience in financial services, including 5 years managing an Australian pension fund’s alternatives, fixed income and impact investment portfolios. He has extensive experience in researching and carrying out due diligence… Read more »

Tunde Kehinde is a seasoned emerging markets entrepreneur, the co-founder of Jumia Nigeria, Africa’s first unicorn (publicly listed on the NYSE) and Africa Courier Express. Tunde Kehinde most recently co-founded Lidya: a digital fintech lender which allows small business owners in emerging markets to access credit and build a credit rating for the first time…. Read more »

Martin Ewald is a Managing Director in the London office of Allianz Global Investors. He heads the Investment Strategy Team within the Infrastructure Equity department and is Lead Portfolio Manager for Impact Investments. Under his role as Lead PM of Impact Investments he is responsible for $400mn under management through the Impact Investment Fund and… Read more »

Jason is a serial entrepreneur, Founder & CEO of UTU, and Founder/Chairman of MARAMOJA Transport, the first taxi app in Africa. He founded them on a belief in the power of trust to ease friction in the modern digital economy. In 2018, UTU launched a now vibrant community space for AI and Blockchain projects in… Read more »

Simon is the Head of JLL’s Strategic Consulting team in Africa which provides Strategic Advice and Real Estate Development Solutions including real estate related market assessments, development advisory and financial & investment analyses for projects across the African continent. Together with his team, Simon provides strategic advisory services to private and institutional investors, developers, financiers,… Read more »

Dr. GONG Weixi has over three decades of professional experience, with positions and expertise in the Aviation Industry, Systems Analysis as well as Investment Promotion, Technology Transfer and its negotiation, theory and practice. Currently, he is serving as Chief of Investment and Technology Promotion Division and Coordinator of Investment and Technology Promotion Network at United… Read more »

Mahin Dissanayake is a Director in the EMEA Financial Institutions group based in London. Here, he is responsible for banks in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Mahin was previously seconded to Fitch Dubai from 2009 to 2012 as country director for banks in the UAE, Oman and Qatar. Prior to joining Fitch in 2006,… Read more »

Marina Pannekeet is Manager Energy at FMO responsible for a team of professionals dedicated to investment in the energy sector in Africa, with a focus on countries in the East and Southern African region. Marina obtained a university degree in Business Economics at the Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Before joining FMO, she worked in… Read more »

Sam leads a team that focuses on turning promising ideas into breakthrough innovations, managing Founders Factory Africa’s venture studio to develop new businesses from the ground up. A former teacher and (aspiring) filmmaker, Sam takes a design-led approach to problem solving, creating products, services, and business models that are equal parts scalable and sustainable. As… Read more »