Speaker Group: Business Leader

Steven Duchatelle is Chief Executive Officer of the Advans Group. Steven also acts as Chairman of the Board for Advans Cameroun, Advans Banque Congo, Advans Nigeria and sits on the Board of Advans Pakistan. Since 2004, Steven has primarily focused on the creation and development of the Advans network and the supervision of Advans greenfield… Read more »

Mr Mukeba has a tremendous experience in the banking industry, where he has held various senior positions in the last 12 years, including Chief Financial Officer and Deputy Managing Director. He was appointed as the Managing Director of the bank in October 2014 and has successfully led, the transformation of the bank into an inclusive… Read more »

Aly-Khan is a Partner in Dalberg’s London office, where he focuses on work in the practice areas of Inclusive Growth, Agriculture and Food Security, and Mobile and ICT for Development. In particular, he has worked with FMCG, consumer goods, telecoms, media, and technology firms on their emerging and frontier market strategies. In addition to strategy… Read more »

Thierry Koenig is a director at ENSafrica (Mauritius). He is the Country Head of the Mauritius Office and is the Business Unit leader for the Commercial Dispute Resolution (CDR) Business Unit, firm wide. The CDR Business Unit comprises the firm’s Competition, Dispute Resolution, Employment, Forensics, Insolvency, IP and Ports, Shipping and Logistics legal departments.  Approximately… Read more »

Hoda Atia Moustafa is the Head of the Africa Regional Office of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. She is based in Dakar, Senegal. Previously, Ms. Moustafa was Senior Counsel in the Legal and Claims Group at MIGA, where she worked closely… Read more »

He joined the Bank on 1st November 1999 from Citibank. He has also worked as Director of Marketing and Research, Marketing Manager, Project Manager Smart Card, Manager Institutional Customers. He has also worked with Citibank as Relationship Officer and Head of Customer Service. John holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in International Business Administration both… Read more »

Laura Foschi is currently Deputy Director at ADA a Luxembourg non-governmental organization that promotes inclusive finance worldwide. She is also Senior Investment Manager and responsible for all investment services to Luxembourg Microfinance Development Fund (LMDF). Prior to this position she has been the general director of the microfinance investment vehicle Consorzio Etimos for 5 years…. Read more »

Maria Largey is the Head of the Financial Institutions sector team at CDC and is responsible for the equity FI portfolio across Africa and Asia. Prior to joining CDC in 2012, she worked in the microfinance sector at both Agora Microfinance Partners and Opportunity International. Before joining the development finance sector, Maria worked at JPMorgan… Read more »

James Marshall – Senior Portfolio Manager at Enko Capital, responsible for the Enko Africa Debt Fund.  We provide exposure to high yielding African Debt markets in both hard and local currency whilst using strict risk management techniques to mitigate credit and currency risk.  Prior to this role I was head of local market trading for… Read more »

Patrick is a core member of LeapFrog’s investment team, and drives investments across the African landscape. Before leaping to LeapFrog, Patrick was Partner at Kingdom Africa Management, a pan-African focused private equity investment firm with more than $600 million in assets under management. Here, Patrick managed multi-million dollar investments from sourcing through to leading successful… Read more »