Archives: Speakers

Christina is an Investment Professional with broad experience in Asset Management, Valuation, Investing and Divestitures, successfully having executed Equity, Debt and M&A Transactions for GE Capital EMEA over the last decade. She is highly skilled in underwriting, managing and exiting both equity and debt / leveraged finance transactions as well as fund investments. After moving… Read more »

Managing Director of Harwell Capital, with responsibility for management of the group and leading the investment team. Advise growth stage Venture Capital technology companies in SaaS, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and Renewable Energy sectors. Chartered Financial Analyst and multi-sector direct investor since 2008, with extensive experience in portfolio management, public and private equity and debt, and… Read more »

Michael Darcy B.Eng MBA CEng MIET has more than 30 years’ experience in mobile and satellite communications. With a background in digital signal processing and digital beam-forming, Mike has been connecting the unconnected in Africa for more than 20 years, starting in the 1990s with the design of new digital satellite payloads to deliver GSM… Read more »

Twaambo Hamusute is Chief Executive Officer of Zambian Home Loans, which he has led since inception. He has over 12 years’ experience in insurance, risk management and business development. Twaambo worked at Barclays Bank Zambia Plc, where he served in various senior management roles such as business development, strategy, bancassurance and consumer lending. Twaambo studied… Read more »

Michael Waller is the MD of Sofala Capital, a housing finance investment company, where he has driven the formation and development of both Zambian Home Loans (“ZHL”) and IBUILD Home Loans (“IBUILD”). ZHL provides affordable mortgage finance and building advice to Zambians who are in the process of building their own homes. IBUILD provides micro-mortgages… Read more »

Kecia Rust is the Executive Director and founder of the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF). She is a housing policy specialist and has worked with both public and private sector practitioners in promoting access to affordable housing and housing finance in Africa for the past 20 years. She was the Housing Finance… Read more »

Paul Jackson has been TUHF’s CEO since inception in 2003 and has been involved in development finance since 1987. Prior to his appointment as CEO at TUHF, Paul held positions as senior operations manager at the JHC, general manager for the Transitional National Development Trust (TNDT) and divisional manager for Southern Africa at the Development… Read more »

Elise Donovan is the chief executive officer of BVI Finance and brings to the role wide-ranging work experience in Asia, North America, the Caribbean and Africa , Elise has played a major role in expanding and deepening the BVI’s financial services footprint in cities around world, specifically in the Asia Pacific region, through strategic relationship… Read more »

Matthew is head of the Maples Group’s British Virgin Islands team in London and chairs the Real Estate Finance group. He advises on finance, banking and corporate law matters involving BVI companies and partnerships, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, debt and equity financings, and project, real estate and asset… Read more »

David Diaz Formidoni is an Investment Officer (Energy Debt) at responsAbility Investments AG. Based in Zurich, David leads the sourcing, coordination, structuring and execution of debt investments in financial institutions across Africa for the Global Climate Partnership Fund (GCPF), which is managed by responsAbility. David has more than 6 years of experience in the development… Read more »