Archives: Speakers

Gaëtan Herinckx is a senior investment professional passionate about working with growing businesses having positive impact on societies. He is Manager – Senior investment officer at BIO, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries. He oversees BIO’s direct investments SME and Corporate (with a focus on Agribusiness value chain). Gaëtan has been working in sustainable… Read more »

Nneka Eze is a Managing Director at VestedWorld, a venture capital firm delivering impact and returns in agriculture, consumer goods, and enabling technology with a focus on Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya. She has served on the Investment Committee for four years and is based in Lagos, Nigeria. Previously, Nneka worked to deepen investment in African… Read more »

Oliver Cornock has many years of experience in high growth emerging markets having worked in both the private and public sectors. From a background in project finance at HSBC Group, he went on to work with the British Ministry of Defence. He joined Oxford Business Group in 2004, became Managing Editor for the Middle East… Read more »

Elliot is focussed on defining strategy and execution of marketing Jersey as both a domicile and destination for Hedge and Private Equity Management Companies and Funds. Elliot moved to Jersey in 2006 to establish a Macro strategy Hedge Fund under the Ermitage umbrella for whom he also seeded other Macro / CTA strategy Hedge Funds…. Read more »

Dr Desné Masie is an economist and thought leader in international financial markets, specialising in investment funds, technology regulation and policy. She has held senior roles in academia, media and finance in the UK and South Africa. She is the Chief Strategist and Founding Partner at IC Intelligence and a fellow at the Wits School… Read more »

Evelyn Castle is is a trailblazer, collaborator and change-maker. At the age of 21, Evelyn co-founded eHealth Africa, a health technology non-profit which was a pivotal partner in eradicating polio from Africa and stopping the 2014 ebola outbreak in W. Africa. In 2018, Evelyn shifted her focus to the private healthcare industry in Nigeria and… Read more »

Kais Zhioua is a Board Member at Tunisia Health Alliance, Clinique la Rose and Fertillia. He works as Chief Strategy and innovation at Clinique la Rose and as the Executive Coordinator of Africa Healthcare Investment Summit. He started working in the healthcare sector since 2013. In 2016 he started working in Tunisia, with an extensive… Read more »

Michael Okaredje is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Pickmeup Technologies, a transport technology company redesigning the way people move around their cities. Michael graduated from Ambrose Alli University in Nigeria with Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Prior to Pickmeup, Michael has founded multiple companies in the IT and energy sector and helped… Read more »

Yves Eonnet is chairman and co-founder of TagPay, an international fintech company that has developed a Next-Generation Core Banking System. He has over 25 years’ experience in banking innovation and technology.   Previous to that, Yves was a Director of Innovation at Gemalto focusing on smart card technology (Visa & Mastercard). He also published a book “Fintech:… Read more »

Walid is the co-founder of BluePeak Private Capital, an alternative asset management firm that focuses on investments in mezzanine and credit in Africa. Prior to BluePeak Private Capital and until 2018, he was the head of the private debt business at Gulf Capital which he founded in 2011 and built a platform that invested in… Read more »