Speaker Group: Business Leader

David Longdon 2023 Speaker

“David is a Senior Associate at Equator with over a decade of experience in finance and has held various roles at Barclays, including Vice President within Capital Markets. He sits on the Board of Trustees for a U.S. liberal arts college, and in this role, serves on their Investment Committee with a $450m+ endowment invested… Read more »

David Brand 2023 Speaker

David Brand founded New Forests in 2005 and currently serves as the fund’s Executive Chair of the Board of Directors, and the Chair of the company’s Investment Committees. He has over 40 years’ experience in forestry investment, forest management, science, and public policy. David is dedicated to innovative, responsible investment strategies in the forest sector… Read more »

David Auerbach 2023 Speaker

David Auerbach is a co-founder of Regen Organics, part of the Sanergy Collaborative, a US company which manufactures organic fertilizer, insect protein, and biomass briquettes from residual organics in fast-growing cities in emerging markets. Sanergy’s circular economy approach both solves environmental challenges and promotes regenerative, local agricultural production. Previously, David built partnerships at Endeavor and… Read more »

David Grayson 2023 Speaker

“David Grayson is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Auerbach Grayson & Company LLC, a brokerage firm specializing in providing international securities research, execution, and settlement for major institutions through a partnership network of over 125 foreign brokers and banks worldwide. Prior to co-founding Auerbach Grayson in 1993, Mr. Grayson was Chief Executive… Read more »

David Ekabouma 2023 Speaker

David Ekabouma has over than 20 years of global experience, including 10 years of investment transaction and relationship management experience with commercial banks, non-bank financial institutions, specialized lenders and Development Finance Institution.

Cobus Visagie 2023 Speaker

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 was launched, which provides flexible, secured trade finance to importers and exporters through a transactional trade finance model, to add to our existing corporate finance… Read more »

Clare Munn 2023 Speaker

“Zimbabwean born Media Executive and tech entrepreneur passionate about communication intelligence, AI and democratizing career success with a focus on emerging markets. Latest venture is BoxPlay.io An award winning Executive Producer of The Square – a 3 Emmy, Oscar Nominated film. First CTO of wework. Coined and trademarked CQ: Communication Quotient(™): Expressive & Receptive Intelligence(™),… Read more »

Christoph Both 2023 Speaker

Christoph Both is a Senior Advisor at GET.invest, a European programme that mobilises investment in renewable energy in developing countries. He has a background as a commercial banker (BA Finance) and industrial engineer (MBA&E) supplemented by a diverse professional practice. Christoph has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and project finance across developed… Read more »

Chris Isaac 2023 Speaker

Chris Isaac is AgDevCo’s Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and one of the company’s founding directors. He has been working in development finance in Africa for the past 20 years, including periods living in Namibia and Mozambique. Prior to AgDevCo, Chris worked in infrastructure project development with InfraCo Africa; as an economic adviser in the UK’s… Read more »

Chris Mitman 2023 Speaker

“Chris is a Managing Partner at Acre Impact Capital, responsible for deal origination, structuring, execution as well as managing strategic relationships with ECAs and Arranging Banks. Chris is a serial entrepreneur and a seasoned ECA professional with over 25 years experience in international banking principally in Risk, Project Finance and Export & Agency Finance. Chris… Read more »