Archives: Speakers

Hayden is the Head of Business Development and Client Management at Prescient Fund Services South Africa. He is a Chartered Accountant (SA), having completed his training contract with KPMG. Hayden has worked at Deloitte in Dublin, Ireland, over the 2008/2009 financial crisis period, specialising in the audit of global investment funds and investment management companies…. Read more »

Novan is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of transactional experience in corporate, project and trade finance. He heads up Capital Market Services at Ocorian, where he is responsible for carrying independent valuations and offering deal structuring and transaction services to our clients. Novan has accumulated significant exposure to various industries in Africa and… Read more »

Ketso Gordhan is currently the CEO of the SA SME Fund, which is the largest institutional investor in Venture Capital in South Africa. Having invested in existing VC funds, the SA SME Fund has additionally launched 4 new venture capital firms covering, BioTech, Hardware and Engineering, IP Commercialisation and Digital Innovation. Previously Ketso has held… Read more »

Tim Radjy is the founder of AlphaMundi Group Ltd in Switzerland, the Chairman of the SocialAlpha Fund SICAV in Luxembourg, the Treasurer of AlphaMundi Foundation 501c4 in Washington DC, an Investment Committee member of AlphaJiri Fund LP in Mauritius. Previously, Tim has worked for MSCI, UBS, and as an advisor to WWF International and the… Read more »

Earl St Sauver is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Apollo Agriculture. Earl leads all aspects of Apollo’s technology and research work, managing software development and data science. Earl previously worked as a software engineer at The Climate Corporation, a company which provides customized recommendations to large-scale farmers using machine learning, which was ultimately acquired… Read more »

Patrick has 15+ years’ experience in investment management in both global private equity and impact investing. Prior investment experience includes Doughty Hanson & Co, Deutsche Bank, Developing World Markets (DWM) and Incofin Investment Management. He’s also previously served as CFO of FINCA International’s microfinance bank in DR Congo and managed SME Finance consultancies for DAI… Read more »

Llew Morkel is the Founder of Fraxeum.com, AZUZA Wealth and DreamBlock. He is known on the global stage as a blockchain evangelist – an engaging, exiting speaker on the subject of financial technologies and financial inclusion. Llew comes from a strong Fintech background having cut his teeth in the South African banking sector – he… Read more »

Jessica is a Senior Disruption Analyst in Nedbank’s Disruption and Innovation team. The team has a global mandate to experiment with, commercialise and fund the most talented teams working on the biggest opportunities, using their expertise to do good. They were awarded the FT Banker’s inaugural fintech partnership Tech Project Award in 2018 for their… Read more »

Linda Broekhuizen is Chief Investment Officer in FMO’s Management Board since 2014. In this role, she is responsible for FMO’s total investment portfolio of more than EUR 9 billion. FMO is the Dutch development bank, investing since 1970 in the private sector in developing economies in Africa, Asia and Latin America. FMO’s investments focus on… Read more »

Vahid Monadjem is co-founder and CEO of Nomanini, an Africa-focused pioneering fintech platform for the informal retail ecosystem. Nomanini connects merchants and distributors to each other and to global service providers, integrating payments, working capital, and data analytics to unlock the latent potential of Africa’s economy. Vahid is an engineer with innovation and product design… Read more »