Speaker Group: Business Leader

John Humphrey has served as His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for Africa since June 2022. Prior to joining the Department for International Trade (DIT), John Humphrey was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Kent HoldCo Limited (KHL). Between 2012 and 2019 John Humphrey was with the UK Hydrographic Office (an MOD Trading Fund). From 2015 he… Read more »

Before Philip Sigwart joined Baobab Group, Philip Sigwart served as Director for SME Banking at Equity Group Holdings, one of the leading banking groups in East Africa. Previously, he held several senior management positions at the ProCredit Group, and served as CEO in ProCredit subsidiaries in Kosovo, Georgia, and DRC. Philip Sigwart started his career… Read more »

Sudeep Laad is a Partner at L.E.K. Consulting. He is a founding member and leader of the Global Education Practice at L.E.K. Sudeep has delivered over 200 cases in the education sector and led more than 100 engagements across 30+ geographies in emerging markets. Sudeep Laad leads the education work in Africa, where he has… Read more »

Kenneth Mohammed is a UK Certified Accountant (ACCA) and holds an MBA from Oxford Brookes University and an MA in Corruption and Governance from the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex. He has over 20 years of experience gained in the UK, USA, Africa and the Caribbean. Kenneth Mohammed brings… Read more »

Daniel Ngumy is a Managing Partner at Anjarwalla & Khanna and heads the firm’s Tax department. He specialises in regional and international tax law, and has extensive experience in tax disputes and tax transactional matters. Daniel Ngumy provides ongoing tax advice on matters affecting clients across various industries, including the financial sector, power, energy and… Read more »

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 as a lawyer and called to the Bar in Canada, Susan’s early work experience included senior management roles in securities trading over a decade with… Read more »

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 markets, banking & finance, FinTech including digital assets, investment funds & services, private equity, (re)insurance and other corporate matters. He is also the global head… Read more »

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 growing co-investments alongside funds in high impact, high growth opportunities. Karim Arabi represents IFC on multiple Limited Partners Advisory Committees (LPACs). Karim Arabi has over… Read more »

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 transactions. Prior to that, she was based in the PROPARCO’s South-East Asia office in Bangkok, where she was in charge of originating new projects in… Read more »

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 Nigerian investment banking firm). She has extensive experience in corporate finance, investments and strategy and has executed transactions and worked across a breadth of industries… Read more »