Speaker Group: Business Leader

Samuel Chiwanda 2023 Speaker

Samuel Chiwanda, is a Founder and CEO of Click Mobile a company that focuses on Messaging, USSD, Voice, and Airtime. The company has established in 2012, is based in Malawi, and nowadays is an International firm with over 8 branches across Africa and the Middle East. Sam has managed to grow Click Mobile from running… Read more »

Sameh Farid 2023 Speaker

“Founder and President of Newgiza University, Prof. Farid was appointed as the Minister of Health, on Jan 30th, 2011, elected as Member of the Parliament in 2010, Chairman of the Education and Research Committee in the Egyptian parliament, and the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Kasr Al Aini, Cairo University from 2006 till January… Read more »

Sam Sturm 2023 Speaker

“Sam leads a team that focuses on turning promising ideas into breakthrough innovations, managing Founders Factory Africa’s Venture Studio to develop new businesses from the ground up. A former teacher and aspiring filmmaker, Sam takes a design-led approach to problem solving, creating products, services, and business models that are equal parts scalable and sustainable. As… Read more »

Saad Sheikh 2023 Speaker

Saad Sheikh is a Partner and heads Enko’s SDG aligned, impact focused private credit strategy, located in the London office. Prior to joining Enko, Saad was a Principal at an Africa focused fund, where he was responsible for deal origination, structuring, and execution for their credit fund. Saad focused on various industries in Africa, including… Read more »

Ruby Nimkar 2023 Speaker

Surabhi is an experienced Financial Technology professional who has worked as a Strategy Consultant driving digital transformation for Tier 1 financial services clients across the United States, United Kingdom, and India. She led projects focused on digital wealth management initiatives targeting Millennials and Gen Z for global leaders in banking. Surabhi now works as the… Read more »

Rory Ord 2023 Speaker

Rory is a well-respected private markets practitioner with more than 18 years’ experience. He is responsible for leading the private markets team investment activities. This includes managing strategy, portfolio design and implementation for discretionary and advisory private markets allocations across all sub classes, from early stage to private equity, mezzanine and infrastructure type investments.

Roland Laljee 2023 Speaker

Mr. Roland Laljee is an experienced marketer with over 15 years of experience in marketing, PR and cooperate relations. Having started his career in the public sector he moved on to work extensively in the private sector until this year joining the Seychelles Investment Board. He has experience in working in the manufacturing and beverages… Read more »

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 »