Archives: Speakers

Gaimin Nonyane is Head of Economic Research at the pan-African bank, Ecobank Group, based in London, and focusses on macroeconomic dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa, fixed income and currencies and market advisory to clients. She joined the bank in November 2012, and helped to launch its first ever Country Profiles, designed to given investors an insight… Read more »

Gregoire is in charge of investor relations as well as debt funding for Baobab and its 12 affiliates in Africa & China. He is responsible to find appropriate funding resources to reach Group objectives. Gregoire has more than 15 years experiences in financial services (bank, consultant & asset management) and is active in Financial Inclusion… Read more »

Robert was one of the pioneers of the private equity industry in the UK. He was a founding partner of Phildrew Ventures, which went on to raise 5 funds totalling >$1bn. The business was sold to UBS Capital in 2000. Robert then worked for Bridgepoint Capital, Europe’s leading private equity business, in a portfolio company… Read more »

Sherif Abdel Aal is the Managing Director and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at KAMCO Investment Company. He has more than 20 years of progressive professional experience in investment banking, private equity, direct investments, corporate banking and market research. Previously, he was The Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Pharos Investment Banking. He… Read more »

I have been active in the African financial markets for 20 years, with over 15 years of investment banking experience. Within a leading role, I have spearheaded and successfully concluded several landmark transactions in Zambia and other African markets, raising over US$2.5 billion. Sectors of advisory strength are FMCGs, Renewables, Infrastructure, Financial Services, TMT, Logistics… Read more »

Chris Low is the Group CEO of Letshego Holdings Limited, a truly African multinational organisation, headquartered and listed in Botswana and focused on delivering inclusive finance solutions to underserved populations across 11 Sub Saharan Markets. With a staff compliment of over 3,000 and more than four hundred thousand customers, Letshego is synonymous with leveraging innovation… Read more »

Karim EL HNOT is the CEO of Sogécapital Gestion the asset management arm of Société Générale in Morocco Karim has 20 years experience in the asset management industry in Morocco. He was successively equity analyst, fixed income fund manager, CIO and Deputy CEO in major asset management firms in Morocco before joining Sogécapital Gestion as… Read more »

Rutendo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe where she completed her primary school and secondary school education. In 2004, Rutendo moved to Cape Town to commence studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town, and subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Laws Degree in 2007. Rutendo was then awarded a scholarship to undertake… Read more »

Albert Maasland started his career in banking at Chase Manhattan Bank – later JPMorgan – and during his 11 year career there, was involved in transforming and building a range of highly successful and profitable business units, including launching the world’s first generation of cross-border electronic transaction banking services providing online account and payment services… Read more »

Jacobs Edo is the author of the best-selling book “Digital Transformation: Evolving a digitally enabled Nigerian Public Service”, co-founder of the Austrian based “DigTrans – A Think Tank Group for Digital Transformation and the chair of the Vienna Digital Transformation Meetup. Jacobs is a globally certified enterprise architect, trusted advisor and a public speaker. He… Read more »