Speaker Group: Business Leader

Lisa Mazaleni 2023 Speaker

Lisa Mazaleni is the Deputy Director for Aquaculture Investment Promotions at the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment in South Africa. Her portfolio focusses on aquaculture sector development; investment promotion and facilitation, and supporting industry with access to local and international markets. With 13 years’ combined experience from the public and private sector, Lisa… Read more »

Linda Scott 2023 Speaker

“The High Commissioner of the Republic of Namibia, Linda Scott, arrived in London in December 2018. Her posting in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the second, as she began her diplomatic career in 1990 by opening the High Commission in London shortly after independence. High Commissioner Scott is accompanied by… Read more »

Leyla Charles 2023 Speaker

Leyla is an Investment Executive with British International Investment (BII) where she is focused on private credit funds investing and on intermediated debt including risk sharing transactions with Financial Institutions. In the private credit space, BII’s strategy looks to address a market need for mid-market US$ credit and mobilise commercial capital to what is still… Read more »

Lerato Nkabinde 2023 Speaker

Lerato is a qualified Chartered Accountant (South Africa) with in-depth executive-level finance and operational experience. Prior to joining Chancen, she worked for various institutions in the financial services industry , responsible for assets under management of over $100m and she was also the CFO of Sifiso Learning Group

Lauren Nkuranga 2023 Speaker

Lauren Nkuranga serves as Chief Advisor to the Chairman & the CEO at the Rwanda Development Board, the Rwandan government’s main body that oversees private sector development. In this role, she focuses on privatization, attracting investment into priority projects, and leading RDB’s governance. She also serves as the Chief Advisor to the Chairman of the… Read more »

Kurtis Lockhart 2023 Speaker

Kurtis Lockhart is a PhD candidate in political science at the University of Oxford. His research examines the effect of institutional reforms on public goods provision with a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. At Oxford he’s taught both quantitative methods and African politics. In the field, he has previously worked as a Research Manager for… Read more »

Kunle Adesuyi 2023 Speaker

Adekunle Adesuyi is the President, Beyond Markets and the Group Chief Financial Officer at AFEX. He is responsible for ensuring that the business unit within the AFEX Group that caters to shared services, which is consolidation of business operations are used within the AFEX organizational structure. He is also charged with the responsibility of centralizing… Read more »

Kristoffer Laurson 2023 Speaker

“Kristoffer is the cofounder and CEO of both PAS Solar and more recently of Gamma Meon. He raised debt and equity in 6 rounds of investment for a Nigerian offgrid energy business from blue chip investors in the sector. Kristoffer is a graduate of LSE and LBS with a Master in Finance.”

Kolawole Owodunni 2023 Speaker

Kola Owodunni is a consummate professional with over two decades of cognate experience principally in the financial services sector spanning Investment Management, Risk Management and Treasury. Currently serving as an Executive Director & Chief Investment Officer of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (“NSIA”), he is responsible for deploying over US$4.3 billion across various investment mandates… Read more »

Khalid Aabid 2023 Speaker

Investment banker with a strong experience both in developped countries and emerging/developping countries.