Archives: Speakers

Asha-Sabrina (known as Sabrina) is a qualified lawyer in Mainland Tanzania (Advocate), Zanzibar (Advocate) and England (Solicitor) and a registered Arbitrator (TiArb). Sabrina has considerable experience as a lawyer in private equity and corporate (including mergers and acquisitions), banking and debt finance, petroleum, mining and other regulated industries (including local content laws), infrastructure, construction and… Read more »

Azeez Amida has had a meteoric growth in his 17-year career that spanned across FMCG, healthcare, investment banking,  agriculture, and private equity.  He is currently the deputy managing director at EastCastle Infrastructure, one of West Africa’s key telecom Tower Infrastructure providers. Before his current appointment, Amida had been CEO at IHS Rwanda and, before that,… Read more »

Maelis Carraro is the Director of Catalyst Fund and the Impact Ventures Practice at BFA. She has over 10 years of experience working alongside fintech startups, development finance institutions, microfinance banks and impact investors to pioneer tech and data-enabled solutions that benefit underserved communities in emerging markets. At BFA, she runs Catalyst Fund, a global… Read more »

Ahmed El Saharty is a Vice President and is a member of the beyond BRIC public equity investment team covering Central Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. He is based in New York. Prior to joining TRG in January 2018, Mr. El-Saharty served as an associate at Briarwood Capital Partners, an emerging and frontier… Read more »

With over 18years presence in the formal workspace, Olusegun’s experience in financial services cover commercial and investment banking and insurance. Within the investment banking space, he was part of a number of notable transactions as financial advisers. He acquired consulting exposure as a strategy and business transformation subject matter expert working with leading global firms… Read more »

Toyin Abiodun, is former Strategic Advisor to Hon. Minister of Trade and Industry – Government of Rwanda. Toyin is a proactive development professional with over a decade and a half professional experience backed by a strong commercial acumen and a natural ability to identify and capitalise upon investment opportunities that both harnesses and drives business… Read more »

Esselina Macome – Associate Professor at the Eduardo Mondlane University. She holds a PhD in Information Technologies and MSc in Analysis, Design and Management of Information System by LSE – University of London. She concluded courses in Digital Money, Leading Digital Money Market, Leading for Frontiers, Bitcoin and Block chain, Gender, regulating Fintechs, Humanitarian payment… Read more »

Charles is a leading emerging markets specialist, who covers the global economic themes having the greatest impact on emerging markets. He is a lead author of The Fastest Billion: The Story Behind Africa’s Economic Revolution (2012), and is often found on twitter @RenCapMan. Graduated from the London School of Economics in 1993 and worked at… Read more »

Mr Motswagae has vast experience in management acquired through various critical roles in mining, construction, project management and Corporate Banking sector. Prior to establishing and actively managing Ticano Group (Pty) Ltd, Mr Motswagae was working as a Transaction Banker – Multinational Corporates at Stanbic Bank Botswana until June 2015, driving trade finance structured solutions and… Read more »

Mr. Johnson Chukwu, Founder and Managing Director, Cowry Asset Management Limited; Chairman, Standard Alliance Insurance Plc; Chairman Fidelity Pension Managers Ltd; Chairman Virgin Forest Energy Limited; (B.Sc – University of Lagos; MBA – Lagos Business School (Pan Atlantic University, Lagos), Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA); Fellow, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria… Read more »