Archives: Speakers

Danladi Verheijen is the co-founder and Managing Director of Verod Capital, a leading Anglophone West African private equity firm established in 2008. Prior to founding Verod, Danladi was a Vice President at Citibank Nigeria, where he led corporate finance and investment banking transactions. He also managed a private equity portfolio and represented Citibank on the… Read more »

Greg Metro is Head of Africa for Schulze Global. He has over 15 years of professional experience in private equity, investment banking, strategy consulting and operations. He worked as a senior investment professional with JP Morgan Private Capital Asia, a $750m private equity fund, where he covered Southeast Asia and China. Mr. Metro also has… Read more »

Kauna Ndilula, a Development Finance Specialist, is the Founder and Managing Director of BFS Group of companies. Passionate about the development of financial ecosystems that support the growth of SMEs, Kauna has pioneered and developed financial and non financial interventions that have manifested as the cornerstones of her business and contributed to positive influence of… Read more »

Najwa El Iraki is the Founder & Managing Partner of AfricaDev Consulting Ltd , a business development and advisory firm dedicated to the African continent. She is the Managing Director in Morocco for Opportunity Network, a global business matchmaking platform headquartered in London that connects CEOs worldwide. She is also the General Representative of Lloyd’s… Read more »

Carlo Dickson is currently the managing director of Ke Nako Capital, South Africa’s largest independent Fund of Fund manager. He sits on the Investment Committee and heads up the co- investments program for the funds. Carlo has over 15 years experience within the international Investment industry. He currently sits on the boards of South African… Read more »

Kato Mukuru joined EFG Hermes in mid-2017 as the Head of Frontier Research to lead the expansion of our research offering across our core Frontier markets in Sub-Sahara African (SSA) and South East Asia. Kato’s SSA & Frontier research teams have been ranked #1 by the Financial Mail and Extel for the past two years… Read more »

Jerome has over 17 years experience spanning emerging markets. For the last 3 years, he has managed the Baobab Growth Fund. A VC Fund focused on Namibia. Jerome is passionate about the power of growth and venture capital in facilitating economic development and capturing new market opportunities. His extensive experience in finance, his work with… Read more »

I am a Pan African Chief Risk Officer and seasoned Risk Management Professional on Basel II & III, COSO/ISO 31,000 Framework, ICAAP, and ILAAP having implemented Enterprise-Wide Risk Management across the continents of West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa. I have over 20years post-graduation experience in Banking and Audit Practice. I am… Read more »

Serge Mian is Head of Investor Relations at Oragroup. Most of its time is dedicated to strategic projects, fundraising and structured finance. Serge has an extensive knowledge in M&A, fund raising, business modelling and asset management. Before joining Oragroup, Serge spent 3 years with EY in Côte d’Ivoire where he strongly contributed to the growth… Read more »

Peter Bartlett has more than 30 years of experience working in Emerging Markets and sits on the Board of several EM specialist firms, Investment Managers (like TLG Africa) and has a vast array of relationships in the EM fixed Income and Equity markets. In 1999 Peter founded Exotix, the leading Frontier investment banking and broking… Read more »