Repeat entrepreneur turned VC founder & investor Ben’s experience as a founder and his passion for entrepreneurship led him to co-found Breega, a pan-European founder-led VC backing tech startups from PreSeed to Series B stage. Ben has built Breega to provide founders with the help he wished he had when he launched his own ventures…. Read more »
Azer Songnaba, CFA Co-founder/ Chief Investment Officer at Cauris Finance Azer is the Chief Investment officer of Cauris Finance, an Africa-focused private credit fund that lends growth capital to best-in-class Fintechs. He has over 15 years of investing and banking experience across multiple asset classes, including Fintech debt. Prior to co-founding Cauris, Azer worked at… Read more »
Ayòbámi Olúfadéjì is a practicing emergency physician and healthcare executive with over a decade of experience in building innovative care delivery models across global markets. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Global Health at Redesign Health, where he leads the expansion of Redesign’s unique venture-building model to emerging markets. Previously, he was the… Read more »
Dr Ayo Salami been involved in researching and investing in financial markets for over 30 years and has acquired substantial knowledge and experience on Emerging Market economies and companies. Ayo was named Chief Investment Officer of the year at the Investment Excellence Awards in 2014. Ayo has worked at Emerging Markets Investment Management Ltd (EMIM)… Read more »
Avinash leads GIF’s risk capital investment team and heads GIF Growth, GIF’s new returnable capital investment vehicle. He shares oversight of the GIF’s finance function with our CEO, ensuring close alignment between investments and financing. Avinash has over 12 years of experience spanning impact investing, social entrepreneurship, international banking and technology. He previously worked as… Read more »
Andy is in charge of Credit at Gateway Partners. He is also the Chair of the Private Infrastructure Development Group, Chair of the Infrastructure Crisis Facility Debt Pool LLP and Chair of Cable & Wireless Seychelles. Andy has worked in the Financial Services industry for over 30 years, and previously held senior positions in Standard… Read more »
Aobakwe “Aupa” Monyatsi is the Group Chief Executive Officer for Letshego Africa Holdings Limited. Aupa is a well-rounded and experienced regional banker, with over 20 years of leadership expertise gained from various senior roles in Africa’s financial services sector. Prior to joining Letshego, Aupa led numerous teams within the Absa/Barclays Group, including being Managing Executive:… Read more »
Augustin has more than 20 years of experience working on private and development finance, including project finance, resource mobilisation; innovative financing; resource tracking and accountability and finance capacity strengthening. Immediately before joining Gavi, Augustin was an independent consultant and the Finance Expert of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement Executive Committee and the Chair of… Read more »
Ashish Patel is the Managing Partner-Credit at Aavishkaar Capital and leads the Africa market where he drives the vision of the ESG First Fund forward. An Industry veteran he has been involved with growth companies for over 20 years and has strategic, operational and investment experience. Before joining Aavishkaar Capital to lead Africa, he was… Read more »
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