Archives: Speakers

Brandon Quinn 2019 Speaker

Brandon is a Partner & Portfolio Manager at Adventis International, an Investment Management company focusing on investment in Africa. Brandon has 23 years of investment experience, financial engineering and risk management in both banking and asset management.

Paresh Daya 2019 Speaker

Paresh has spent his career specialising in fintech, primarily in front office trading, working for global, tier-one investment banks across the UK and South Africa. He is the founder of two startups, one of which – Orb9 – focuses on empowering employment by building the next generation career ecosystem and marketplace utilising exponential technologies. In… Read more »

Karanvir Singh 2019 Speaker

Karanvir is the Founder and CEO of YEGO, a Mobility Solution designed to secure a livable wage for 25 Million Taxi Drivers across Africa. Though taxis are a major avenue of youth employment in Africa, the prospects for drivers are uncertain and inadequate. YEGO aims to redeem the work of drivers by bringing transparency, accountability… Read more »

Joshua King 2019 Speaker

Joshua studied International management & Chinese at SOAS University of London. Followed by Chinese at Beijing Normal University. He has 12 years of sales, marketing and entrepreneurship experience, spanning 16 Countries. Joshua has worked with the former CEO of HSBC China, received a commendation from the former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and worked with… Read more »

Peter George 2019 Speaker

Peter George is the Clean Cooking Alliance’s Senior Director responsible for its private sector development and investment activities. Prior to joining the Alliance, he invested in and advised oil and gas companies and renewable energy project developers in the United States, as well as start-ups and small and medium enterprises developing distributed energy solutions in… Read more »

Kevin Mutiso 2019 Speaker

Kevin Mutiso, 30, is the CEO and co-founder of Alternative Circle. The company developed a Kenyan Mobile based app “SHIKA”, that enables individuals with little or no credit history to access affordable micro loans through their mobile phones. The app also provides financial institutions a platform they can use to lend to users, since these… Read more »

Kudzai Kutukwa 2021 Speaker

Kudzai Kutukwa

Kudzai is the co-founder and CEO of Mobbisurance, a fintech company that is developing a mobile based crop insurance product and other financial services for farmers. Kudzai and his team have used machine learning to drive down costs significantly associated with serving this particular market segment. In addition he also co-founded the Emerging Farmers Exchange,… Read more »

Monica Maduekwe 2019 Speaker

Monica Maduekwe has over 7 years of experience promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency markets in West Africa. She has an extensive knowledge of the energy landscape, particularly as it concerns investment, which she gained through her work as a Resource Mobilisation Specialist and Renewable Energy Programme Officer at the Economic Community of West African… Read more »

John Mbindyo 2019 Speaker

Mbindyo has more than 21 years experience in Banking and Technology. An Adventurous entrepreneur he was among the Pioneers of Internet service providers business in Kenya. He was involved in the early years of cross-border e-commerce partnering with the Government of Dubai to launch Tejari platform linking commodity traders in Africa, Middle east and Africa…. Read more »

Tonderai Mutesva 2019 Speaker

Mr. Tonderai Mutesva is a Corporate Finance Executive with MyBucks, a Fintech company that uses technology to provide financial products and services to the low and middle-income customer segment, predominantly in high-growth emerging markets. He has 10 years investment banking experience on the African continent, having worked on various M&A transactions along with debt and… Read more »