Speaker Group: Business Leader

Carole Maman is currently Chief Investment Officer of BIO, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries and coordinates the investments in the fields of financial institutions, enterprises, infrastructure and funds in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Carole has been working in development finance for 2 decades first at the International Finance Corporation in the health… Read more »

Mr. Henk G. Mulder is the former Managing Director for Rabo Development. With a career spanning over 34 years, Mr Mulder is a Law Graduate of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands with extensive experience in banking coupled with functional expertise in Strategic and Change Management, Credit Risk, Treasury, Investment and Retail Banking. He… Read more »

Viola Llewellyn is the co-founder and President of Ovamba Solutions, Inc. (www.Ovamba.com). Ovamba is an award winning African “TradeTech” company that creates culturally attuned technologies to serve formal and informal African SMEs in the trade & commodities sectors. Ovamba’s solutions combine innovative Sharia compliant structures with eCommerce, logistics services, and technology to drive financial inclusion… Read more »

Chris has an established track record in the UK and internationally as a developer of and advisor on major development, energy and infrastructure projects. Has worked for and with the World Bank in Africa, South America and South Asia; set up and run own consultancy, development, technology and renewable energy companies in the UK, Europe… Read more »

Laura Knierim, investment manager in KfW’s financial sector department, is responsible for the implementation of programs targeting the African agricultural sector. She is KfW’s shareholder representative in several regional fund structures, specialized in microfinance and agricultural finance for Africa (for example: AATIF). Laura joined KfW four years ago. Previously, she worked for the International Organization… Read more »

Anthony Pelz was a distressed debt trader on ABN AMRO Bank NV’s proprietary trading desk based in Amsterdam. Prior to proprietary trading, Mr. Pelz worked with several investment banks including Credit Suisse, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and ABN AMRO Bank NV in roles ranging from corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions to credit and business development. He… Read more »

Mr. Ben-Ahmed is the Country Head and the CEO of Metropolitan Group Ghana. Prior to Joining Metropolitan Ghana He had a successful tenure in Ghana Life Insurance as a Head of Department reporting to the Managing Director from the year 2004 to 2009. His responsibilities covered the driving of profitability and process efficiency across Finance,… Read more »

Michael Pearson is an experienced director, investor and consultant. In a career of over 30 years in financial services and strategy consulting, Michael has: – Acted as a non-executive director of several financial services companies, and is currently a non-executive director of Tanmeyah, a successful Egyptian microfinance company which is part of EFG Hermes. –… Read more »

Mr. Hassan Samir graduated from the faculty of economics and political science 1995. He started to work on the brokerage field on the same year. 1998 he joined prime securities as assistant trader manager then trader manager and sales& traders manager then deputy managing director. On 2007 he moved to a private brokerage company as… Read more »