Speaker Group: Business Leader

Oikocredit is a worldwide cooperative that promotes sustainable development by providing loans, capital and capacity building support to microfinance institutions, cooperatives, fairtrade organisations, small to medium enterprises and renewable energy projects. As a social investor, Oikocredit’s works is guided by the principle of empowering people to improve livelihoods.

Alexander Sotiriou leads CGAPs work on Financial Innovations for Development, which aims to understand how innovations in financial services can be used to address some of the most pressing challenges in development, including access to energy, water, and education. He joined CGAP from MicroVest, where he was the investment manager for Latin America and managed… Read more »

Greg Davis joined Ecobank as Group Chief Financial Officer in October 2016. Greg has nearly 2 decades of banking and financial services experience and is an accomplished banking CFO. Prior to joining Ecobank He had a successful career with both Standard Bank and Barclays PLC, most recently holding the role of CFO for Standard Bank’s… Read more »

Sean is a Director of Imara Capital Zimbabwe, the country’s longest established capital markets operation. Sean heads Imara’s corporate finance division which has been involved in most of the larger capital raisings, IPOs, privatisations and M&A transactions over the last 20 years. Established in 1954, Imara dominates the local stockbroking and asset management sectors, and… Read more »

Matthew Amlôt is the Editor of Banker Africa. Launched in 2013 the magazine focuses on covering a variety of issues that affect the banking and finance community on the African continent, from financing economic development, to best practice, and risk management. He also has several years of experience in the fintech landscape and has interviewed… Read more »

Helena joined the international team at the CISI in 2010 and focussed on developing the CISI’s business in the Middle East. As the Dubai office became more established Helena turned her focus to Africa where the CISI signed its first agreements in East Africa in late 2014. Last year over 2,500 CISI exams were taken… Read more »

Nick O’Donohoe joined CDC as its Chief Executive in June 2017 and is also a member of the CDC Board. He was previously a Senior Adviser to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation where he specialised in the use of blended finance models to support the work of the Foundation. Prior to taking this role,… Read more »

Ravin leads Barclays Mauritius and sits on the Barclays Africa Executive Committee Board. He was appointed Managing Director of Barclays Mauritius in July 2007 after six months as Corporate Director within the organisation. Prior to joining Barclays, Ravin was since 2002, the General Manager of two of the key parastatal bodies in Mauritius, namely, the… Read more »

Hemal is the Founder and CEO of AtomInvest (www.atominvest.co), EMEA’s first digital platform for high quality alternative investments across private equity, venture capital and hedge funds. Prior to founding AtomInvest, Hemal was an investment professional within the African private equity space at DPI LLP and an investment banker in mergers & acquisitions at Barclays Capital… Read more »

Nieros joined CDC in 2017 to lead The Africa List, CDC’s investment in the leaders and businesses responsible for Africa’s next decade of growth. Nieros comes to CDC with 15 years of experience in investment banking and alternative assets (EM debt and structured credit). She helped lead the development of Macquarie’s Africa infrastructure project finance… Read more »