Speaker Group: Business Leader

Llewellyn Morkel is the Founder and Managing Director of Fraxeum, an international Fintech focussed on micro investment. Llewellyn is an accomplished innovation technologist and successful startup entrepreneur. He’s launched and exited Africa’s first online escrow platform and conducted the continent’s first fractional property investment ICO in 2017. Over the past five years he’s been dedicated… Read more »

Over 23 years of progressive professional experience in Investment Banking, Private Equity, Direct Investments, Corporate Banking and Market Research. Developed through my involvement in the execution of more than 80 transactions, including sell-side/buy-side M&A, IPOs, equity offerings, corporate-restructuring and bank financing in the Middle East, based in Cairo, Dubai and Kuwait. I was also involved… Read more »

Abdu-Rahman Abrahams is the Co-Head of Hybrid Equity, a business unit within Old Mutual Alternative Investments (OMAI) and oversees the investment process, strategic direction and operational running of the business. In addition to assuming responsibility for the overall Hybrid Equity programme, as a member of the Hybrid Equity Investment Committee, Abdu-Rahman Abrahams is actively involved… Read more »

Gabriel Ruhan is a seasoned entrepreneur having co-founded data centre operator, Global Switch in 1998. After a spell as Chief Operating Officer at cloud service provider Navisite Inc (Nasdaq) he returned to the UK to restructure struggling marine engineering company, Global Marine. He previously served as Paycode’s Chairman

Ismael Cisse holds two bachelor’s degrees in Finance and IT from HEC Montreal, a DESS in International Business from McGill University and an Executive MBA from Paris Dauphine. This passion has guided his career choices with world leaders in finance and consulting such as State Street and Price Waterhouse Coopers, where he quickly obtained increasing… Read more »

Sonnie Ayere began his career with NatWest Bank in London as a Corporate Banking Officer in 1993, and then in 1996, moved on to Sumitomo-Mitsui Bank working in corporate and property finance. In 2001, he joined the Global Structured Finance Group of the International Finance Corporation (The World Bank Group) in Washington D.C. and later… Read more »

Kenny Nwosu is Chief Executive Officer at Norsad Capital, an impact investor and private credit provider that offers tailor-made debt solutions to growth companies that deliver desirable social impact in Africa. Norsad’s investment coverage is sub-Sahara Africa, and the principal operational area is the Southern Africa region. Norsad’s purpose is to build a better Africa… Read more »

Carel Kleynhans heads Divercity, the leading investor in well-located affordable housing precincts in South Africa. He holds a masters degree in Finance from the University of Cambridge and his background is in corporate finance.

Audrey-Cynthia Yamadjako is coordinating the African Green Finance Facility Funds (AG3F) at the African Development Bank. She uses her international experiences in the banking sector, financial services as well as in the environment and climate finance, to develop an innovative mechanism aiming to unlock the participation of the private sector in the support of a… Read more »

Dr. Konstantinos Tsanis is a Digital Transformation and FinTech Specialist with the IFC. Prior to joining IFC he was based in Lagos, Nigeria, where he worked as Chief Innovation and Data Officer for WEMA Bank. Before that, he worked in Bloomberg, developing new markets and new products, and Thomson Reuters, working in their VC investments… Read more »