Speaker Group: Business Leader

Jan-Erik Behrens 2017 Speaker

Jan-Erik provides strategic and operational pre- and post-deal advice for Corporates, Private Equity and other Investors in the Financial Service industry. His transaction related work with leading global companies ranges from multi-country integration and carve-out development and execution, commercial and operational due diligence, target operating model and synergy case development, operational strategy and restructuring. Jan-Erik… Read more »

Asad Naqvi 2017 Speaker

Asad Naqvi

Asad Naqvi is a Partner at Apis, a private equity fund focused on growth equity investments in financial services and financial infrastructure. Asad is actively involved on all aspects of the firm’s investment process including investment origination, execution and portfolio management. Asad overseas several of the fund’s investments including companies in the MSME credit, asset… Read more »

Mark Napier 2017 Speaker

Mark is the Director (CEO) of FSD Africa. Mark’s early career (1989-2003) was in investment banking in the City of London (Close Brothers) where he advised growth companies on M&A and capital raising. However, he has now been involved in financial sector development in Africa for 15 years. From 2004-2009 he was CEO of FinMark… Read more »

Rupert McCammon 2021 Speaker

Rupert McCammon graduated from the Cass Business School, City University London, with a 1st Class (Hons) degree in Banking & International Finance in 1991. He was responsible for managing the Botswana Stock Exchange, and Botswana’s only stockbroking company in the mid-1990s, at a time when the Botswana Stock Exchange was one of the best performing… Read more »

Edmund Higenbottam 2021 Speaker

Ed has originated and led high profile transactions across multiple different sectors and geographies in Africa and elsewhere. Ed has a total of fourteen years of experience in investment banking, of which the last seven years have been in Africa. Ed has completed twenty-five transactions in ten different African countries. He also has great expertise… Read more »

Jonas Luini 2017 Speaker

Jonas Enrico Luini works as a Associate VP at TCX. He joined TCX in 2016 and he is currently responsible for relationship management for clients investing in local currency in financial institutions in emerging & frontier markets by structuring operations hedged through FX swaps & forwards. Prior to joining TCX Jonas as investment officer with… Read more »

Grant Flanagan 2017 Speaker

Grant is Chief Executive of Atria Africa. He began his career with Fleming Asset Management Zimbabwe in 2002, becoming Managing Director and CIO in its latter incarnation. In addition to being Fund Manager of the firm’s flagship African equities fund, he oversaw the re-emergence of a vibrant corporate bond market in Zimbabwe and has extensive… Read more »

Eugene du Plessis 2017 Speaker

Eugene du Plessis

Eugene is a Director of the Izwe Group, tasked with managing funding relationship and liquidity. These activities span issuing of bonds, deposit taking, bilateral facilities, as well as the management of currency and interest rate exposures. Eugene holds a Masters Degree in Commerce.

Sanjeev Gupta 2021 Speaker

Sanjeev Gupta is Africa Finance Corporation’s (“AFC”) Executive Director for Financial Services. He is responsible for Treasury, Trade Finance & Syndication and Corporate Advisory lines of business within AFC. Mr. Gupta has over 25 years’ experience in Investment Management, Private Equity and Corporate Advisory Services. Sanjeev’s forte has been to blend together global and indigenous… Read more »

Ahmadou Abdoulaye Diallo 2017 Speaker

Ahmadou Abdoulaye Diallo, economist from Mali, 58 years old, is the Director General of the African Solidarity Fund (ASF) since 31 October 2015. Between 1989 and 1991, he was chief of the section of the funders of the Arab Islamic civilization (Islamic Development Bank, Arab Bank for the economic development of Africa, Kuwait Fund for… Read more »