Archives: Speakers

Max Bock 2021 Speaker

Max works as Vice President at Deutsche Bank (DWS) in Sustainable Investments. He is a member of the investment management team of Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF), a USD 150m public private partnership fund providing debt to agricultural projects or corporates and financial institutions active in agriculture across the African continent. He is… Read more »

Brett Mallen 2018 Speaker

Brett was appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Sanlam Africa Investments at the end of 2014. He is admitted as an attorney in South Africa and, after he obtained his LL.M at Leiden University (cum laude), he joined Sanlam Investments as a Legal Advisor in 2004. Upon completing his CFA exams, Mr. Mallen transferred… Read more »

Jonathan Stichbury 2018 Speaker

Jonathan Stichbury, ASIP and has been CEO of Sanlam Investments East Africa Ltd (SIEAL) since 2000 and has been an investment professional for over 25 years. SIEAL was previously branded PineBridge Investments East Africa and before that AIG Investments East Africa. However, in June 2017, PineBridge sold its majority shareholding to the Sanlam Group. During… Read more »

Danladi Verheijen 2018 Speaker

Danladi Verheijen is the co-founder and Managing Director of Verod Capital, a leading Anglophone West African private equity firm established in 2008. Prior to founding Verod, Danladi was a Vice President at Citibank Nigeria, where he led corporate finance and investment banking transactions. He also managed a private equity portfolio and represented Citibank on the… Read more »

Greg Metro 2018 Speaker

Greg Metro is Head of Africa for Schulze Global. He has over 15 years of professional experience in private equity, investment banking, strategy consulting and operations. He worked as a senior investment professional with JP Morgan Private Capital Asia, a $750m private equity fund, where he covered Southeast Asia and China. Mr. Metro also has… Read more »

Kauna Ndilula 2021 Speaker

Kauna Ndilula

Kauna Ndilula, a Development Finance Specialist, is the Founder and Managing Director of BFS Group of companies. Passionate about the development of financial ecosystems that support the growth of SMEs, Kauna has pioneered and developed financial and non financial interventions that have manifested as the cornerstones of her business and contributed to positive influence of… Read more »

Najwa El Iraki 2021 Speaker

Najwa El Iraki 

Najwa El Iraki is the Founder & Managing Partner of AfricaDev Consulting Ltd , a business development and advisory firm dedicated to the African continent. She is the Managing Director in Morocco for Opportunity Network, a global business matchmaking platform headquartered in London that connects CEOs worldwide. She is also the General Representative of Lloyd’s… Read more »

Carlo Dickson 2017 Speaker

Carlo Dickson is currently the managing director of Ke Nako Capital, South Africa’s largest independent Fund of Fund manager. He sits on the Investment Committee and heads up the co- investments program for the funds. Carlo has over 15 years experience within the international Investment industry. He currently sits on the boards of South African… Read more »

Kato Mukuru 2017 Speaker

Kato Mukuru joined EFG Hermes in mid-2017 as the Head of Frontier Research to lead the expansion of our research offering across our core Frontier markets in Sub-Sahara African (SSA) and South East Asia. Kato’s SSA & Frontier research teams have been ranked #1 by the Financial Mail and Extel for the past two years… Read more »

Jerome Kisting 2017 Speaker

Jerome has over 17 years experience spanning emerging markets. For the last 3 years, he has managed the Baobab Growth Fund. A VC Fund focused on Namibia. Jerome is passionate about the power of growth and venture capital in facilitating economic development and capturing new market opportunities. His extensive experience in finance, his work with… Read more »