Speaker Group: Business Leader

Roland Tatnall 2023 Speaker

Energy and Infrastructure investor and executive with 25 years’ experience. Established Mubadala Infrastructure Partners’ first African office, founding member of the listed private equity infrastructure fund, PME African Infrastructure Opportunities, and adviser to I-Squared Capital. Established and led the $3bn renewable energy transition strategy for a JSE-listed mining house, and founded African Frontier Capital, a… Read more »

Robert Alhadeff 2023 Speaker

CEO and Co-Founder: Rob is a third-time founder with 9 years of experience working in international lending in London. He sits on the board of an educational NGO and has lived in East Africa for 4 years

Rizwana Ameer Meea 2023 Speaker

Our CEO, Rizwana, is a highly accomplished Barrister from England and Wales and who called to the bar in Mauritius. With an impressive tenure spanning nearly two decades in the global business sector, she possesses a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of business, ranging from structuring and administration to legal and policy formulation. Rizwana has… Read more »

Rivhatshinyi Mandavha 2023 Speaker

“Rivhatshinyi Mandavha is a senior investment manager for Norfund, the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries with a mission is to create jobs and to improve lives by investing in sustainable businesses, in their Southern Africa regional offices overseeing investments into Renewable Energy. Her finance career spans, Private Credit, Private Equity, Project Finance, and Investment… Read more »

Richmond Kwame Frimpong 2023 Speaker

“A Financial Advisory, Trade and Investment Promotions’ practitioner with almost two decades of enterprise leadership spanning Financial Markets, Technology & Economic Integration. As Managing Director of LMI Land Holdings, Richmond leads LMI’s Trade and Investment strategy across ASEAN (+3), EU, UK/US, China, India and Japan with emerging Special Economic Zones & leading Industrial Parks in… Read more »

Richard Putley 2023 Speaker

“Richard studied at Kingston University in Accountancy and Finance and initially worked in a Chartered Accountancy practice before moving into financial recruitment. He has over 30 years’ professional recruitment experience, operating and managing businesses recruiting at the most senior level across Commerce and Industry, Sales and Marketing, IT, HR and Finance. Richard has previously held… Read more »

Reshma Shah 2023 Speaker

“Reshma has over twenty years’ experience on a broad and rare combination of expertise spanning Business Strategy & Performance, Risk Management, Finance, Tax and Sustainability. In the last fifteen years, her work has focused on the Extractives and Infrastructure Sector primarily in Africa and the Middle East. Reshma brings practical experience of working in highly… Read more »

Reginald Massawe 2023 Speaker

Reginald Massawe is the founder and Managing Director of AML Finance Limited (AML), a company he established 13 years ago after working for more than fourteen years in management positions, ten of which were in multinational organisations. Reginald is a trained teacher and self-made entrepreneur. He is a trainer and believer in self-development.

Raphael Dana 2023 Speaker

“Raphael is a serial entrepreneur which specialties include corporate finance, blockchain, disruptive business ideas, start-up modeling, go-global strategy, recruitment of growth team, sales and marketing. Prior to founding Gozem, Raphael co-founded IEG Singapore Joint Venture with IEG Banking (berlin) in 2017 to provide corporate finance advisory to technology companies in Southeast Asia (SEA). Passionate about… Read more »

Raoul Gufflet 2023 Speaker

“Mr Gufflet is a seasoned professional, who has spent nearly three decades in the banking and financial sector. Over the years, he has gathered an extensive knowledge of the banking sector and financial markets across a large variety of jurisdictions. He started his career as a strategic consultant in the field of restructuring and corporate… Read more »