Archives: Speakers

Daniel leads Branch’s product development and engineering organizations. Before co-founding Branch, Daniel held senior roles in product management and business development strategy at Kiva.org.

Howard Rosen studied law at Exeter College, Oxford University. He obtained his degree in Jurisprudence in 1978, qualified as an English solicitor in 1980 and after initially working in private practice, worked until 1988 as an in-house counsel for international leasing companies specialising in the legal and tax aspects of international finance. At the beginning… Read more »

Koen Peters is Executive Director at GOGLA, the association for the off-grid solar energy industry. Koen is a strong advocate of making market solutions work for public goods and believes the off-grid solar industry holds the key to the quickest, most cost-effective and overall best route towards universal energy access. Throughout his career he has… Read more »

Nick Quintong is CEO of PayGo Energy. PayGo Energy’s hardware and software solution rapidly develops LPG markets for cooking. PayGo’s technology reduces cost barriers to LPG (via pay-as-you-go functionality) and drives supply chain efficiencies by revolutionizing the connection between customers, retailers and wholesalers of LPG. Prior to launching PayGo, Nick held a variety roles in… Read more »

Nikos Milianitis started his banking career in Greece working with a commercial banking group (1987-95) in executive and managerial positions in strategic planning, corporate advisory and investment banking. He was Treasurer of the European Investment Fund (1995-2000) and then Senior Portfolio Manager (2001-2007), with the European Investment Bank managing credit fixed-income portfolios of over EUR… Read more »

Accomplished Senior Position with 25+ years of experience with Commercial International Bank (CIB). Rania Abdel Aziz is appointed the task to lead the “Strategic Relations Group”, prior to this role Rania’s career at CIB started 1987 realizing a series of successful leadership and transformational roles across Institutional Banking namely Corporate Banking, Mid-Cap Banking and Global… Read more »

Graduated in 1999 from Helwan University with B.Sc. in Major Foreign Trade – Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration. In 2001 Diploma of Stock Exchange Market analysis, Faculty of Economics and Political Science Cairo University . Mohsen Adel started his professional career in the economic field in Egypt until he was appointed as the  Vice… Read more »

Magdi is an Investment Partner with Omidyar Network (ON) in Washington, DC, where he focuses on global strategy and early-stage investment in Digital Identity. ON’s vision is for a world in which everyone has access to Good Identity that empowers and protects individuals’ rights to privacy, security, and control in the digital world. Before joining… Read more »

Will is an experienced Operations Executive with a track record of successfully leading large international teams through turnaround situations. Prior to co-founding Orbitt, Will worked at Shell Plc for 15 years where he was responsible for managing fleet operations and asset management for a $1bn portfolio. Subsequent to this, Will has been involved as an… Read more »

Neil is an experienced accountant, who has operated in the Mauritian and Dubai business environments for the past 9 years. Prior to that he had extensive London experience in the banking industry as well as having operated throughout a number of different countries within the SADC region of Africa. He has a BCom from the… Read more »