Archives: Speakers

Richard predominantly works with a range of clients across Sub-Saharan Africa and MENA region. He concentrates on the full gamut of private equity activities – including direct investments, advisory groups, fund of funds, secondary’s and placement agents. Richard also works with Infrastructure and Real Estate funds as well as Family Offices and various Microfinance organizations… Read more »

Ralph has had many years of experience in the technology sector and started out working as a programmer and systems analyst. He has been involved with IT companies as a business consultant and director of EMEA. Throughout his career Ralph has been involved in the start-ups, directorship, and management of a number of companies across… Read more »

Fernando Oltra heads the Investor Relations department of MyBucks, S.A., a FinTech group listed in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and regarded as the leading digital bank in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining MyBucks in 2016, Fernando worked on different corporate finance and capital raising roles for such entities as Ecobank, Exotix, BPI and Merrill Lynch.

In 2012, Jean-Luc Konan founded the Financial African Company (Compagnie Financière Africaine, COFINA), which became the first African financial institution dedicated to mesofinance. Cofina aims at bridging the missing link between microfinance and traditional banking when it comes to financing SMEs. Holding offices in six countries across West Africa, the group counts more than 125,000… Read more »

As CDC Group’s Financial Institutions sector strategist, Wasim is responsible for developing the investment strategy of their second largest sector by AuM. Geographic scope covers Africa and South Asia; product scope covers Equity, Debt, Guarantees and Funds. Wasim’s topic expertise spans capital markets, asset management, transaction banking, retail banking, consumer finance, payments and insurance. His… Read more »

Jurgen Hammer is the Managing Director of SPTF, the international inclusive finance network and Standard Setting body for social performance management (SPM), in charge of the European office in Luxembourg. From 2008 to 2019, Jurgen was Chief Risk Officer and Head of SPM at Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation (GCAF). Jurgen’s involvement in financial inclusion started… Read more »

Thomas Hougaard is the Vice President for Sub-Saharan Africa, International Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) based in Copenhagen Denmark. IFU invests across agribusiness, renewable energy and financial institutions and currently hold an active portfolio of more than 60 projects across the continent.

Philippe has over 18 years of experience in the financial services industry. He spent his career in investment banking at international banks before joining IPRO in 2013. At IPRO, he became the lead manager of the African Market Leaders fund and set up the Africa Total Return fund in 2014. He has also managed POLICY… Read more »

Raj has had a successful career in private equity at Kibo Capital Partners, a leading regional African middle market private equity fund with an AuM of more than USD 100 M, joining in 2007 as one of the main principals. Raj has acquired extensive experience investing across Southern and Eastern Africa, as well as the… Read more »

After 19 years with Barclays PLC, a significant proportion of which was in the African business including time in Kenya, Botswana, Zambia and South Africa, as well as managing the Pan-African Wealth Business from London, David joined Barclays Bank of Kenya as Retail and Business Banking Director at the start of 2019. Passionate about growing… Read more »