Archives: Speakers

Beatrice Hamza Bassey 2019 Speaker

Ms. Beatrice Hamza Bassey has been Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Atlas Mara Limited since February 16, 2015 and led Atlas Mara’s acquisition and integration of the nine banks it has acquired in Africa for much of that period. From February 2017 to May 2018 she was the Chair of Atlas Mara’s… Read more »

Greg Pearson 2019 Speaker

Greg Pearson is a founding member of Grit Real Estate Income Group and has been instrumental in sustaining its rapid growth since inception in 2014. Prior to Grit, Greg was responsible for expanding AECOM’s African footprint. His hands-on experience has allowed him to develop an expansive strategic business network with local and global developers as… Read more »

Frank Streppel 2019 Speaker

Frank Streppel started his banking career in 1992 with ABN AMRO Bank in the Netherlands, where he held several positions. In 1998 he was granted a full year leave to work voluntarily as Financial Controller for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sri Lanka. Since 2000 Frank Streppel has been working for Triodos Investment Management first as… Read more »

Shiori Onishi 2019 Speaker

Shiori Onishi is Head of Investment at CROWD CREDIT, Inc., and engaged in sourcing of potential partners, due diligence, and launching of funds for Japanese individual investors. Got her education in Japan/UK/Philippines, and built her career in Japan/India/Afghanistan, Shiori has gained her hands-on knowledge and experience on micro, SME, and rural finance as well as… Read more »

Saugata Banerjee 2018 Speaker

Saugata Banerjee is the Chairman of the DIGITIAN Group and Managing Director of the boutique digital Investment Fund DIGITIAN Investment Incorporated UAE. DIGITIAN Investment is an Africa focussed Fund mainly active in East and North Africa. He is an Investment Banker aged 48years, with a Top executive level working experience in three continents (America, Asia… Read more »

Emilio Cattaneo 2019 Speaker

Emilio Cattaneo 

Emilio joined the Private Infrastructure Development Group in 2015 as Executive Director of The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund.  He became Head of PIDG Technical Assistance in December 2019, responsible for the deployment of grants to projects being developed by the PIDG Companies, as well as providing upstream capacity building grants to governments and managing a… Read more »

Ope Onibokun 2019 Speaker

Ope is the Head of Project Finance for Arise where he focuses on raising and structuring financing for various projects in Africa. Arise, backed by shareholders such as A.P Moller Capital, Olam International and Africa Finance Corporation is a leading pan African infrastructure developer particular focused on design, finance and operation of integrated transport and… Read more »

Sam Preece 2019 Speaker

Sam Preece is CEO of Clean Invest Africa Plc and London listed investment vehicle making investments in clean energy and waste to energy opportunities in Africa. Sam is an Environmental Geologist and has worked for over 20years managing the Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) risks for some of the worlds largest companies as they implement… Read more »

Fabien Konan Beugre 2019 Speaker

Founder of Granatum Finance, a financial technology company with the objective of providing an alternative source of funding for corporates and governments based on asset-backed blockchain tokenisation (ABBT). Fabien’s vision is to bring more liquidity and transparency to the African capital market by tokenising and designing smart contracts for future or existing assets with the… Read more »

Yann Pambou 2019 Speaker

Yann joined Swiss Re Direct Investment in 2014 as the Head of Africa for Principal Investment and Private Equity, taking on responsibility for originating and executing transactions and monitoring investee companies throughout Africa. Prior to that, he worked as a Principal at Actis, based in Lagos, covering West Africa transactions. Yann founded and is currently… Read more »