Archives: Speakers

Lord Bates was appointed as a Minister of State at the Department for International Development on 14 October 2016. He was previously a Minister of State at the Home Office from May 2015 until March 2016. Lord Bates is a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Africa Banks, focusing initially on Nigeria and then elsewhere in West and East Africa as the team’s footprint in the region grows. Prior to Moodys, for 10 years Akin worked primarily as a structured finance credit analyst (asset back securities) in London for HSBC Investment Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and UniCredit Bank AG. Akin… Read more »

Duarte Pedreira is an experienced trade financier, who has worked in senior trade finance roles in London, Johannesburg and Luanda. Throughout his career Duarte had exposure to most areas of trade finance, including operations, origination/sales, structuring, forfaiting, syndications, distribution, advisory and insurance underwriting. His most recent roles include Africa Head of Trade Finance Sales for… Read more »

Batanai Matsika has a strong background in equities research and mainstream investment banking in Sub- Saharan Africa having worked for financial and investment banking houses such as Sanlam, Banco Português de Investimento and Imara. He has also consulted for Nova Capital Africa Analytics (USA), Hamilcar Capital (UK) and Mackie Research Capital Corporation (Canada). Batanai has… Read more »

Stanley is an investment officer at Triodos Investments Management, specializing in financial inclusion in Africa. Stanley has spent more than 15 years in the investment banking space, starting at Investec Bank Limited with an emphasis on investment structuring and product development. Before joining Triodos, Stanley worked as Head of Investments at PYMWYMIC, a European community… Read more »

Logan is a partner in our London office. He specialises in cross-border financings for developing markets, including Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the wider CIS. Logan’s practice covers a wide range of financing products, in particular, syndicated lending, trade finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, mezzanine finance and corporate restructurings. Logan has extensive experience… Read more »

Gavin is Client Relationship Director at Minerva and has prime responsibility for the strategic direction of Minerva’s global corporate and funds division. Gavin has extensive experience across a variety of asset classes in the areas of private client, corporate and fund administration and serves as a Director on a range of specialist structures and regulated… Read more »

Jibril J. Aku holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and an MBA from the University of Benin, Nigeria. He also holds a Diploma in Insurance from the Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and was awarded Doctor of Science in Business Administration (D.Sc.) Honoris Causa of Achievers… Read more »

Stephen joined JTC in 2010 and heads up the company’s PWS divisions in the Channel Islands. He started his career with PwC in London before moving to Jersey and joining Caversham Fiduciary Services where he worked for over 17 years, ultimately leading the business as Managing Director. Stephen is a Chartered Accountant with extensive commercial… Read more »

James is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Head of Fund Operations at Highvern. Previously a director with a large international administrator, James headed up several key client relationships and sat on a number of fund boards including a renewable infrastructure fund and various real estate companies. Prior to working as an administrator, James was an… Read more »