Archives: Speakers

Franklin Olakunle Amoo is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Baylis Emerging Markets, a leading pan-African investment firm with headquarters in Lagos and New York. As an active investor in a number of operating companies across Africa, Franklin serves on the boards of several African companies. Prior to co-founding Baylis, Franklin Olakunle Amoo helped… Read more »

Cobus Visagie co-founded Africa Merchant Capital in 2012 as a privately owned boutique merchant bank, focused on the high growth private capital markets of Sub-Sahara Africa. In 2016, AMC Trade Finance was launched, which provides flexible, secured trade finance to importers and exporters through a transactional trade finance model, to add to our existing corporate… Read more »

Kristoffer Laurson has worked in financing and running companies in Emerging Markets for nearly 20 years, most recently as CEO and co-founder of one of the leading internationally funded offgrid energy companies in Nigeria. The company was the first to launch Energy as a Service in Nigeria.

Imran Patel is a Director at Verdant Capital where he oversees Verdant’s Francophone West Africa business. Imran has over 20 years’ experience as a key strategist and investment professional, having started his career at a leading North American investment fund where he helped oversee and actively manage a global portfolio, including its African debt and… Read more »

Dan Zook is the Executive Director of ISF Advisors and has a passion for bringing inclusive agriculture and supply chain financing solutions to market. Based in New York, Dan Zook directs ISF’s portfolio of projects related to investment advisory, financial inclusion, and enterprise strategy in the rural finance sector. He previously worked as a strategy… Read more »

African icon, 2021, African Banker magazine TED Global talk on Africa’s Fastest Billion Number 1 Frontier analyst 2016-20, Thomson Reuters Extel / Institutional Investor surveys

Afsane Jetha is the Co-Founder & CEO of Alta Semper Capital, an institutional private equity manager she founded in 2015 alongside Ronald Lauder (Chairman of Clinique LLC) and Richard Parsons (former CEO of Time Warner). Alta Semper is committed to democratizing access to generational health and well-being across growth markets. Alta Semper manages funds on… Read more »

David Grayson is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Auerbach Grayson & Company LLC, a brokerage firm specializing in providing international securities research, execution, and settlement for major institutions through a partnership network of over 125 foreign brokers and banks worldwide. Prior to co-founding Auerbach Grayson in 1993, Mr. David Grayson was Chief… Read more »

Lucio Frigo is an urban and cultural developer focussed on urban regeneration of historical cities, arts districts, cultural landscapes and heritage assets and operating across the MENA and Africa regions. Through his practice heritage and cultural assets are repositioned at the centre of contemporary lives – neglected areas are regenerated, historical assets are converted into… Read more »

Strategic executive with a demonstrated history of delivering business growth and transformation. Strength-based innovative leadership. Strong banking and financial background. 18 years of experience within BNP Paribas Algeria and one of its founders. Actually agreed by the Central Bank as a Deputy CEO of the bank. Certified as a financial markets professional by the AMF,… Read more »