Archives: Speakers

She was previously the Sector Director of Mining, Resources and Commodities at FirstRand Bank Limited in Johannesburg. Shirley joined Absa Bank Limited in 2011 and is the Coverage Head for Natural Resources at Absa (Corporate and Investment Banking). Her responsibilities include maintaining and growing relationships in the mining, metals, oil, gas and chemical industries. She… Read more »

Yvan joined Symbiotics in 2005. Prior to this, he worked for BlueOrchard Finance where he was the chief operations officer. Before this, he was a microfinance consultant in Peru and a small enterprise consultant in Western Africa and worked as a fund accountant at Capital International in Geneva. Yvan holds a degree in Business Administration… Read more »

Bola Onadele. Koko is the pioneer Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange. Prior to this engagement, Koko was the President of FDHL, a financial markets and risk management consulting firm he founded in 2001, where he provided business leadership in the empowerment of the Nigerian fixed income market and consulted extensively for… Read more »

– Operations Lead at ACfA – Master’s in Development in Finance (UCT) -Disruptive Technology enthusiast

Michael Carlo Fabbroni is Head of Financial Institutions Debt Africa at ResponsAbility Investments AG. Based in Nairobi, Michael is in charge of the coordination and sourcing of transactions, supervision of due diligences activities, execution of transactions and portfolio management for debt investments in financial institutions, including commercial banks, microfinance banks, leasing companies, and selected consumer… Read more »

Tokunboh Ishmael is the co-founder of Alitheia Capital – a Nigeria-based fund manager channeling private equity investments to transform businesses in West Africa where funding gaps create unique opportunities. In 2015, she co-founded Alitheia Identity (www.alitheiaidentity.com) to scale investing across Sub-Saharan women-led SMEs. 

Tokunboh is a CFA Charter holder, corporate financier and M&A banker having… Read more »

Abenet Bekele is the Chief Market Operations Officer of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX), first of its kind in Africa, a private-public partnership between market actors, the members of the exchange, and the government. Abenet is responsible for the major operations of the exchange including trading operation, clearing and settlement, and actors certification. He has… Read more »

Taku is a co-founder of Harare Receivables Exchange (HRE), the first financial services company in Zimbabwe to join Factors Chain International (FCI), a global leader in Receivables Finance. Taku oversees the local and regional operations of the business. He holds an LLB Honours degree from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and a… Read more »

Juliet Munro is Director of Financial Systems at FSD Africa, responsible for overseeing programmes that cut across a variety of themes – from credit, housing finance and insurance, to remittances, community finance, gender and financial integrity. Her work includes helping FSD Africa’s investment team to identify potential investment opportunities in her focal sectors. Prior to… Read more »

David Renwick is the Head of Investment Banking Division: Absa which includes the following areas of responsibility: Africa Leverage Finance, Debt Capital Markets, Loan Capital Markets, Resource and Project Finance, Equity Capital Markets, Equity linked and Financial Solutions Group. His previous appointment was at Standard Bank where he was Head of Diversified Lending and Leverage…. Read more »