Ravin leads Barclays Mauritius and sits on the Barclays Africa Executive Committee Board. He was appointed Managing Director of Barclays Mauritius in July 2007 after six months as Corporate Director within the organisation. Prior to joining Barclays, Ravin was since 2002, the General Manager of two of the key parastatal bodies in Mauritius, namely, the… Read more »
Hemal is the Founder and CEO of AtomInvest (www.atominvest.co), EMEA’s first digital platform for high quality alternative investments across private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. Prior to founding AtomInvest, Hemal was an investment professional within the African private equity space at DPI LLP and an investment banker in mergers & acquisitions at Barclays Capital… Read more »
Nieros joined CDC in 2017 to lead The Africa List, CDC’s investment in the leaders and businesses responsible for Africa’s next decade of growth. Nieros comes to CDC with 15 years of experience in investment banking and alternative assets (EM debt and structured credit). She helped lead the development of Macquarie’s Africa infrastructure project finance… Read more »
Ms. Ward joined AHL in 2014. From her base in the UK, she leads AHL’s relationships with a number of portfolio companies, and sits on many Boards and Advisory Committees. Ms. Ward has experience in investment banking, project finance and managing small business development support programs in emerging markets. Prior to joining AHL she managed… Read more »
Nick Hughes initiated M-PESA, the mobile money platform that has revolutionised financial access in Africa, leading the team that took M-PESA from concept to scale. In 2012, Nick co-founded M-KOPA, pioneering access to clean energy and financed assets. M-KOPA has connected over 1,000,000 customers to distributed solar energy, low power TVs and smartphones. Nick is… Read more »
10 years of experience in Financial Engineering and Structured Finance Asset Type : Consumer Assets, Retail Auto Loans/Leases, Operating Assets, Trade Receivables, Transportation, Corporate and SME loans.
Anne-Marie is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the development capital arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of Financial Sector Deepening Mozambique, and Co-founder of a private equity fund manager, Alitheia IDF Managers, investing in women-led businesses. She also took over and led the exists of Pan African microfinance fund returning… Read more »
Dolika Banda is the CEO of the African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited (ARC Ltd). She is a Zambian national with over 25 years of experience in international banking and financial management. Dolika has worked across the world – in Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the US with a specific focus on banking and… Read more »
Suzanne is founder of Catalyst At Large where she is a globally recognised adviser, speaker, writer, and field builder in gender lens investing. She is the Co-Producer of the Global Gender Lens Investing Summit. She is Investment Director for the SPRING Accelerator which has a focus on supporting impact businesses that have positive impact for… Read more »
Jonathan CFA, has over a decade of experience in public equity markets, having managed portfolios investing in Frontier Africa, South Africa and Developed Markets. He is a portfolio manager and director at Adventis SA where he manages the Adventis Africa Equity Fund. The fund has a competitive track record and follows a bottom-up value-driven investment… Read more »