Archives: Speakers

Abayomi Michael Osho is the founder and pioneer Chief Executive Officer of Verite Microfinance Bank, a fast-growing and well differentiated Microfinance Bank in Nigeria popular for its unique branchless Operational Strategy. He holds a Master of Science Degree(MSc.) in Strategic Planning from the prestigious Edinburgh Business School, Herriot-Watt University Scotland United Kingdom. This was after… Read more »

Phillip Myburgh, Founding Partner (CEO) of Ethos Mezzanine Partners. Phillip has 27 years’ experience in investment banking and closed-ended fund management, and founded Ethos Mezzanine Partners (one of Africa’s first dedicated mezzanine fund managers) in 2005. The business forms part of the Ethos Private Equity group with a 32-year history of managing investments in private… Read more »

Antti is an experienced finance Executive having worked in Asset Management, Investment and Corporate Banking prior to joining Finnfund in 2012. Antti is currently heading Financial Institutions investments team and Treasury at Finnfund.

BBusSci (Finance), Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting (University of Cape Town), CA(SA), CFA Mark served articles at Deloitte & Touche in Johannesburg. After remaining on as a manager until 2001, he joined Rand Merchant Bank as a corporate bond investment analyst in the special projects international division. In 2007, Mark joined Transaction Capital and was… Read more »

Franck Alain Behiblo, Managing Director, Head of Strategy and Business Development As a Managing Director at Quantum Global, Franck heads the Group’s Strategy and Business Development efforts into Sub-Saharan Africa. Franck focus area is Innovative Investment scheme and he has pioneered a number of investments solutions mainly targeted at Insurance companies, central banks, pension and… Read more »

Cacious is an Investment Professional in excess of over 13 years’ experience in Investment Management. He is currently a Private Equity Specialist for the Government Institutions Pension Fund (‘GIPF’). He has a strong track record in developing economic/technical/financial models, Due Diligence, Business Plans, Business process and Studies. He is well experienced in Strategy, Project Finance,… Read more »

Brice is Managing Director – Head of West and Central Africa including Francophone countries and Capital Market throughout Sub-Saharan Africa for Eaglestone. Prior to joining Eaglestone, he was a founding Partner and board member at Gemfonds Plc in London, a global emerging market hedge fund. He has also held senior roles at Ecobank Capital, Renaissance… Read more »

Phil has considerable experience in structuring and closing international equity and debt offerings for banks and other financial institutions. He has served as Director of Investments, Africa for Equator Capital Partners, LLC since 2013. From 2005- 2013, Phil was Senior Vice President at WorldBusiness Capital, where he managed origination, underwriting, closing, collections and portfolio management… Read more »

Franklin Olakunle Amoo is a Partner at Baylis Emerging Market, an investment management firm focused on making growth equity investments in middle market manufacturing and industrial assets on a pan-African basis Prior to co-founding Baylis, Franklin led the Strategic Credit Group at Mizuho Securities USA, the securities brokerage arm of the $1.8 trillion Mizuho Financial… Read more »

Timothy Nuy founded Finclusion in July 2018 with a vision of enabling financial inclusion through data driven lending. Timothy has over 10 years of international experience across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa in management, investment and advisory capacity. During his previous tenure with MyBucks from 2014 until 2018, Timothy was most notably involved with the group’s… Read more »