Archives: Speakers

I have an outstanding Professional Career work experience spanning over 28 years in Banking, Insurance, Marketing, Cooperative Management/Consulting, Management of State Government/Community Micro Funds and Micro-Finance. Specialties: Export and International Trade Management, Banking, Marketing, Insurance, Micro Financing and Business Development Consulting. I am a certified banker, a registered professional with the Financial Reporting Council of… Read more »

Chris Low is an international banking, financial inclusion, digital transformation, emerging markets and risk management practitioner, with more than 30 years of proven financial services industry delivery in the UK, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Most recently he advised HM Government on engaging with the UK Banking Sector to promote trade and investment. Also… Read more »

MICHAEL ALDRIDGE, Co-founder & Managing Director of KOFISI and Sunbird Business Services Limited. Michael is a successful entrepreneur with over 15 years business experience in multiple sectors, including business services and retail. He is also committed to creating wider social impact in education through innovation in finance. Michael cofounded KOFISI, the leading provider of flexible… Read more »

Michael is the Chief Operating Officer at TDB as well as Executive in charge of Lending Operations, responsible for managing the Bank’s product houses including Trade Finance and Project & Infrastructure Finance. This includes product strategy and execution, business development and managing strategic multi-country client relationships. He has over 18 years of banking experience and… Read more »

Michael Mills is a renewable energy and climate finance professional with many years experience of managing investments in emerging markets. Prior to joining the UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) he established the renewable energy business at responsAbility Investments AG, a development-sector fund manager headquartered in Zurich. responsAbility is the investment manager… Read more »

Samia joined AfricInvest Private Credit as Head of Credit in January, 2014. Prior to that, since 2009 she was Managing Director of the Université Paris-Dauphine, Tunis Campus, where she led the launch of the University’s Tunis campus. Samia also has 11 years of banking experience with Citibank in Tunis, where she joined as a Relationship… Read more »

Richard is Managing Director of UK Climate Investments (UKCI). UKCI is a £200m climate finance vehicle funded by the UK Government to invest in transformational green energy projects and companies in sub-Saharan Africa and India. Before joining Macquarie in 2010, Richard was a UK Senior Civil Servant. Richard holds degrees from the University of Glasgow… Read more »

Patricia is passionate about creating opportunities that improve people’s lives. Her love for identifying enduring consumer and commercial insights to support the development of brands and grow businesses’ was actualized in a career spanning 25 years across 3 global companies namely Unilever, Diageo/EABL and L’Oreal. In the last 8 years of that career, her focus… Read more »

Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel is the Managing Partner in charge of Rakuten’s growth venture investments comprising a variety of rapidly expanding disruptive industries such as Fintech, Mobility, Digital Media, Healthcare and Telecommunications. At Rakuten Capital, Oskar has spearheaded a global investment strategy with a diversified portfolio of innovative start-ups in North America, Europe and… Read more »

Zohrab was born in Kenya and moved to Canada at the age of seven. He is an entrepreneur and executive in the energy sector where he started with government and utilities in 1995 and with private sector renewable energy development in 2002. Working with both startups and multi-nationals, he has led the development of 1,287… Read more »