Speaker Group: Business Leader

Vidur Ramdin 2017 Speaker

Vidur Ramdin has a strong background in management, specialised in marketing, public relations and communications. He holds an Executive MBA; a Master in Tourism Management and Marketing; and a degree in Tourism Management. He joined the African Solidarity Fund in 2017 as Director of the Communication and Marketing Department. As part of the development plan,… Read more »

Binta Toure Ndoye 2017 Speaker

Binta Touré Ndoye (45) is a Malian national and was appointed on July 1, 2016 General Manager of the pan-African banking network Oragroup. She started her career in the US before returning to Africa in 1995, when she joined Ecobank Côte d’Ivoire. She was appointed Managing Director of Ecobank Mali in 2007 and was entrusted… Read more »

Kenny Nwosu 2021 Speaker

Kenny Nwosu 

Kenny is Chief Executive Officer at Norsad Finance. Norsad Finance is a provider of mezzanine and bespoke debt financing to mid-market companies and financial services providers. Our coverage includes most sectors principally across all Southern Africa markets. Norsad has an equity base of over USD 130 million and prioritizes investments to financially sustainable companies that… Read more »

Douglas Bennet 2017 Speaker

Douglas Bennet is the COO of GuarantCo’s Management Company and has been involved with GuarantCo since 2007.  Douglas started his career as a lawyer and has been advising, structuring, financing and arranging transactions, mainly in emerging and frontier markets, for almost 20 years.  GuarantCo provides contingent solutions to help bridge the gap between the local… Read more »

Lorna Smith 2017 Speaker

Lorna Smith, OBE, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of LGS and Associates. Ms. Smith has more than three decades of experience at the highest levels of the public service in the British Virgin Islands. Over the course of her senior-level service, Ms. Smith developed extensive relationships with leaders from the business community, international… Read more »

Deepak Dave 2017 Speaker

DEEPAK DAVE

Deepak filled the newly created Management position of Chief Risk Officer in February 2020. The position is part of ATI’s medium-term strategy to strengthen its overall risk management function. Deepak brings over 20 years of global experience in banking, capital markets and private finance to the role. He served in senior positions at GE Capital,… Read more »

Peter Bartlett 2017 Speaker

Peter Bartlett has more than 30 years experience working in Emerging Markets and sits on the Board of several EM specialist firms, Investment Managers and has a vast array of relationships in the EM fixed Income and Equity markets. Peter founded his own business called Exotix in 1999 which has grown into a company employing… Read more »

Thierno-Habib Hann 2017 Speaker

Thierno Habib Hann (Habib) is the Senior Housing Finance Regional Lead for the Sub-Saharan Africa region, at IFC, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Habib has an extensive background in housing finance, structured finance, financial institutions, and in the World Bank’s work on the legal and regulatory environment for private sector investment. Habib spent eleven years working… Read more »

Gerald Gondo 2017 Speaker

With a wealth of frontline investment management experience in Africa, Gerald serves as an Executive within RisCura Africa and is responsible for Business Development. He was instrumental in the establishment of RisCura Zimbabwe in 2014 after identifying the country’s need for an independent advisor with proven credentials in advising institutional investors. In his role Gerald… Read more »

Peter Mudzwiti 2017 Speaker

Peter Mudzwiti has more than 20 years business and financial risk management experience in various capacities at operational, strategic and stakeholder levels within the private sector and more recently in the development sector in Zimbabwe. Peter is currently at dissertation stage of his MBA studies, while fully conversant in the English, Shona and Ndebele languages,… Read more »