Speaker Group: Business Leader

Ms. Ward joined AHL in 2014. From her base in the UK, she leads AHL’s relationships with a number of portfolio companies, and sits on many Boards and Advisory Committees. Ms. Ward has experience in investment banking, project finance and managing small business development support programs in emerging markets. Prior to joining AHL she managed… Read more »

Nick Hughes initiated M-PESA, the mobile money platform that has revolutionised financial access in Africa, leading the team that took M-PESA from concept to scale. In 2012, Nick co-founded M-KOPA, pioneering access to clean energy and financed assets. M-KOPA has connected over 1,000,000 customers to distributed solar energy, low power TVs and smartphones. Nick is… Read more »

10 years of experience in Financial Engineering and Structured Finance Asset Type : Consumer Assets, Retail Auto Loans/Leases, Operating Assets, Trade Receivables, Transportation, Corporate and SME loans.

Anne-Marie is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the development capital arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of Financial Sector Deepening Mozambique, and Co-founder of a private equity fund manager, Alitheia IDF Managers, investing in women-led businesses. She also took over and led the exists of Pan African microfinance fund returning… Read more »

Dolika Banda is the CEO of the African Risk Capacity Insurance Limited (ARC Ltd). She is a Zambian national with over 25 years of experience in international banking and financial management. Dolika has worked across the world – in Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the US with a specific focus on banking and… Read more »

Suzanne is founder of Catalyst At Large where she is a globally recognised adviser, speaker, writer, and field builder in gender lens investing. She is the Co-Producer of the Global Gender Lens Investing Summit. She is Investment Director for the SPRING Accelerator which has a focus on supporting impact businesses that have positive impact for… Read more »

Jonathan CFA, has over a decade of experience in public equity markets, having managed portfolios investing in Frontier Africa, South Africa and Developed Markets. He is a portfolio manager and director at Adventis SA where he manages the Adventis Africa Equity Fund. The fund has a competitive track record and follows a bottom-up value-driven investment… Read more »

Eddie Chibi is the CEO of Cassava Fintech Zimbabwe, a company wholly owned by Econet Wireless Zimbabwe Limited. The Cassava Fintech business unit houses the mobile money Business EcoCash, microinsurance EcoSure and eCommerce. Eddie has 19-years’ experience in Telecoms, ISP and Mobile Financial Services. He has served in the telecoms industry in Nigeria, Burundi and… Read more »

Andrew is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Zeepay. He is an expert in Banking and Mobile Payments, with over 15 years of experience in Banking and Business Development. Andrew’s experience spans the world of Marketing and Banking in which he has held various positions, from being a Brand Manager for Nescafe to holding several senior… Read more »

Daniel is the CEO and Co-Founder of Lendable, an off-balance sheet debt platform for alternative lenders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to founding Lendable, Daniel was Partner at Greenstart, a seed stage venture capital firm in San Francisco, where his investment focus was on the intersection of data, finance, and energy. During that time he also… Read more »