Archives: Speakers

Maelis Carraro is the Managing Director of Catalyst Fund and heads the venture building team at innovation consulting firm BFA Global. Maelis has spent her career in impact investing and fintech, working alongside fintech startups, investors, DFIs, banks, and philanthropic funders to pioneer tech-enabled solutions across emerging markets. At Catalyst Fund, a global accelerator for… Read more »

Joseph Ng’ang’ira is a Partner in the Commercial Department of Kaplan & Stratton, Advocates one of Kenya’s premier, top tier law firms. Joseph is a qualified Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and Certified Public Secretary. Joseph Ng’ang’ira presently specializes in mergers and acquisitions, competition/antitrust law capital markets law, corporate law, start up of… Read more »

Zohrab Mawani is an executive and entrepreneur in the Energy sector who has focused most of his career on the transition to a low-carbon economy. Working with both startups and multi-nationals, Zohrab has led the development of over 1,500 MW of now operational renewable generation and 2,000 MW of HVDC transmission in development. A geologist… Read more »

Executive Director and Group CEO Citizen and Resident of Mauritius Qualifications: Master’s degree in applied mathematics, actuarial science and finance and Executive MBA from HEC Paris (France). Skills & Experience: • Worked in the internal audit department of Aviva Europe as audit senior manager in the financial management and actuarial audit department, conducting internal audit… Read more »

Anusha Naidu heads up Corporate Finance, including capital raising, structuring and investor relations at Select Africa, a pan African housing-focused microfinance institution. She is a South African Chartered Accountant with specialist financial services experience across local and international capital markets. Prior to joining Select in 2016, Anusha Naidu worked at various PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) global offices…. Read more »

Andrew Schultz joined Investec in 2014 heads up Frontier Markets • Andrew Schultz has over 10 years dedicated Frontier Markets experience, having started as an investment analyst covering sub-Saharan Africa. • Andrew Schultz started an institutional pan-African business for a South African research and stockbroking firm and was then Head of Strategy and Sales at… Read more »

Paul Kamau is a seasoned Finance and Investment Professional who has nearly Two decades of experience garnered in leading organizations in the larger Eastern and Central Africa. Currently, he is an Executive director at Finaltus Ventures Limited a licensed Pan African Investment and Transaction Advisory Firm based in Nairobi, Kenya. As the executive director, he… Read more »

Ms. El-Ghazaly has over fourteen years of experience in the Egyptian financial services industry, and she currently holds several roles across a wide spectrum including private equity, venture capital as well as board memberships in some of Egypt’s largest corporates. She serves as the Egypt Country Advisor at Mediterrania Capital Partners; a EUR 450Mn AUM… Read more »

Karim EL HNOT is the Deputy head of the investment bank of Société Générale Maroc in charge of asset management activities and CEO of Sogécapital Gestion the asset management arm of the bank. Karim has more than 22 years of experience in the asset management industry. He was successively equity analyst, fixed income fund manager,… Read more »

Olivier currently holds the position of Managing Director of ALC Titrisation, a securitization fund management company licensed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (CREPMF), member of Africa Link Capital Group (ALC Group). In this role Olivier is responsible for originating, executing, and managing debt securitization transactions as well as promoting the use of securitization as… Read more »