Business Leader Speakers

Susan Payne 2022 speaker

Chief Executive Officer , Sustainable Planet Ltd / Holistic Agricultural Investments Group Ltd

Susan Payne has spent her career founding, building and managing businesses either focused on or located in global emerging markets, over the last decade primarily Africa. After having been trained…

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Jeffrey Kirk 2022 speaker

Managing Partner , Appleby

Jeffrey Kirk is the managing partner of the Appleby British Virgin Islands office and he leads the BVI office Corporate Practice Group. He advises on public and private M&A, capital…

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Karim Arabi 2022 speaker

Investment Officer, Private Equity Funds , International Finance Corporation

Karim Arabi is an Investment Officer at IFC, focusing on Private Equity funds and co-investments across Africa. He has led several LP commitments for IFC in Africa and focused on…

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Agnès Huang 2022 speaker

Senior Investment Officer , Proparco

Agnès Huang is a Senior Equity Investment Officer at PROPARCO, the French Development Financial Institution. Agnès Huang covers mainly Africa and Middle-East and works on Financial Institutions and Venture Capital…

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Michelle Patrick-Akinrinade 2022 speaker

Africa Investment Advisor - Anglophone West Africa , US Development Finance Corporation (DFC)

Michelle Patrick-Akinrinade is currently the Anglophone West Africa Investment Advisor to the US Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Prior to this role, Michelle Patrick-Akinrinade worked at Chapel Hill Denham (an independent…

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Kilonzo Mbwele 2022 speaker

Regional Manager Africa & Middle East , Spark+ Africa Fund

Kilonzo Mbwele joined Enabling Qapital in 2020 and has worked with the founding Partners to build the impact investment activities across Africa and the Middle East. He is a seasoned…

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Philip Lucky 2022 speaker

Ag. Chief Investment Officer , Rwanda Development Board

Philip Lucky is the Head of Investment Marketing Department at the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), a Government institution in charge of accelerating economic growth and development of the country, where…

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Sarah Whitten 2022 speaker

Regional Manager, Financing and Implementation , U.S. Trade and Development Agency

Sarah Whitten is USTDA’s Regional Financing and Implementation Manager for the Sub-Saharan Africa based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to USTDA, she was with Standard Chartered Bank managing a portfolio…

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Miranda Abraham 2022 speaker

Co-Head Loan Syndications , Rand Merchant Bank

Miranda Abraham is Co-Head of Loan Syndications at Rand Merchant Bank. She has worked across loan and debt capital markets for over 20 years. She spent the first half of…

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Laurence Berman 2022 speaker

Director/Founder , Biolevel Limited

Laurence Berman is a co-founder of Biolevel. He drives all commercial expansion efforts in Europe and Africa and leads work around raising capital for the company. He started is career…

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