Archives: Speakers

Lanre has over 15 years’ investment experience doing business between Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to co-founding Orbitt, Lanre was involved in originating investment ideas and raising the required capital to grow start-ups in Africa, including Sankuru, First African Gold and Tranergy Capital. He also worked at BP, Subsea 7 and Citi in… Read more »

Mr Tsheole is a seasoned Financial Markets expert with a cumulative experience of over 19 years having worked for the Central Bank Bank of Botswana and Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE). Mr Tsheole holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Single Major Economics) from the University of Botswana and a Master of Commerce (MComm) in Financial Markets… Read more »

Chief Executive Officer-Housing Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd Board Member-Housing Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd CA (SA), MBA (Durham-U.K), currently completing PHD I am an accomplished Chartered Accountant with an MBA from Durham University from the United Kingdom. I enjoyed a fast-track development career with Unilever as Group Financial Manager of Unilever South East Africa. I was… Read more »

Mohamed Elakhdar is the Managing Director of Beltone Investment Banking where he provides advisory services for a full range of transactions, including mergers, sales, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, divestitures and other restructurings. He brings over ten years of experience across various industries including healthcare, energy, transportation, aerospace & defense, consumer products, financial services, telecom, oil… Read more »

Alberto is the Founder of Varcando and has worked on impact investments for the past 15 years. He started off his career as a consultant for major development agencies such as the Inter- American Development Bank and the World Bank before becoming an Operations Officer at the International Finance Organisation (IFC) in Lima (Peru). In… Read more »

James Doree joined Lion’s Head in 2011, and has worked with the founding Partners to build investment banking and asset management activities across Africa and Frontier Markets. He now leads Corporate and Investment Banking, covering sectors such as power, infrastructure, affordable housing, industry and financial inclusion. As part of Lion’s Head’s work in African capital… Read more »

Wayne Hennessy-Barrett is Founder and CEO of 4G Capital, an award-winning African fintech delivering microloans and enterprise training to power MSME growth. Over 25 years’ experience in frontier market operations. creating sustainable and scalable operations to deliver high shared value outcomes. He has advised and served several commercial and non-profit boards in the social impact,… Read more »

Dr. Hamdy is, currently, the General Manager and Director of Capital Markets Group (CapM) as well as a member of both the Executive Committee and ALCO Committee at Banque Misr, the second largest public sector bank in Egypt. The CapM and has assets under management of more than EGP 45billion. She also heads the Committee… Read more »

Mr Ba is a Partner at Helios Investment Partners, one of the leading Africa focused private equity firms, with more than $3 billion in assets and investments across 30 countries in Africa. Helios deep sector expertise in financial services. Notable investments include Equity Bank, FCMB, Crown Agents Bank and Investment Management, Interswitch, Fawry and Bayport…. Read more »