Business Leader Speakers

Cobus Visagie 2017 Speaker

Group CEO , Africa Merchant Capital

Cobus co-founded Africa Merchant Capital in 2012 as a privately owned boutique merchant bank, focused on the high growth private capital markets of Sub-Sahara Africa. In 2016, AMC Trade Finance…

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Douglas (Pug) Bennet 2017 Speaker

COO , Cardano Development, All Africa

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…

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Jussi Ahonen 2021 Speaker

Head of Digital Infrastructure and Solutions , Finnfund

Jussi is leading the origination and execution of Digital Infrastructure and Solutions investments at Finnfund. Digital Infrastructure and Solutions (DIS) is a newly established team within the investment function. We…

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Kusanya Frederick Shindika 2017 Speaker

CEO , Serenity Capital Fund, Tanzania

SeSeasoned Cotton Trader, New York Cotton Exchange, Memphis Cotton International, Newcot S.A, Loius Dreyfus Cotton International, Rio Verde S.A. Business Development Director - Petrovillage AG. managing operations for Africa South…

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Lanre Oloniniyi 2017 Speaker

Co-Founder , Orbitt, All Africa

Lanre has over 15 years' investment experience doing business between Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to co-founding Orbitt, Lanre was involved in originating investment ideas and raising the…

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Thapelo Tsheole 2017 Speaker

Chief Executive Officer , Botswana Stock Exchange Limited

Mr Tsheole is a seasoned Financial Markets expert with a cumulative experience of over 19 years having worked for the Central Bank Bank of Botswana and Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE).…

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Andrew Chimphondah 2017 Speaker

Chief Executive Officer , Housing Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd, South Africa

Chief Executive Officer-Housing Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd Board Member-Housing Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd CA (SA), MBA (Durham-U.K), currently completing PHD I am an accomplished Chartered Accountant with an MBA from…

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Mohamed Elakhdar 2017 Speaker

Managing Director - Investment Banking , Beltone Financial, Egypt

Mohamed Elakhdar is the Managing Director of Beltone Investment Banking where he provides advisory services for a full range of transactions, including mergers, sales, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, divestitures and…

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Alberto Didoni 2017 Speaker

Managing Director , Varcando Limited, Africa

Alberto is the Founder of Varcando and has worked on impact investments for the past 15 years. He started off his career as a consultant for major development agencies such…

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James Doree 2021 Speaker

Managing Director , Lion's Head Global Partners

James Doree joined Lion’s Head in 2011, and has worked with the founding Partners to build investment banking and asset management activities across Africa and Frontier Markets. He now leads…

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