Archives: Speakers

Bamidele Olalekan Oseni 2017 Speaker

I am a Pan African Chief Risk Officer and seasoned Risk Management Professional on Basel II & III, COSO/ISO 31,000 Framework, ICAAP, and ILAAP having implemented Enterprise-Wide Risk Management across the continents of West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa and East Africa. I have over 20years post-graduation experience in Banking and Audit Practice. I am… Read more »

Serge Mian 2017 Speaker

Serge Mian is Head of Investor Relations at Oragroup. Most of its time is dedicated to strategic projects, fundraising and structured finance. Serge has an extensive knowledge in M&A, fund raising, business modelling and asset management. Before joining Oragroup, Serge spent 3 years with EY in Côte d’Ivoire where he strongly contributed to the growth… Read more »

Peter Bartlett 2017 Speaker

Peter Bartlett has more than 30 years of experience working in Emerging Markets and sits on the Board of several EM specialist firms, Investment Managers (like TLG Africa) and has a vast array of relationships in the EM fixed Income and Equity markets. In 1999 Peter founded Exotix, the leading Frontier investment banking and broking… Read more »

Martin M. Makgatlhe 2017 Speaker

Mr. Martin Makgatlhe, a citizen of Botswana, is a pioneer of the Botswana Stock Exchange, having joined the then Botswana Share Market at its inception in 1989. He has an illustrious career in the capital markets with over 27 years of experience and his entire working life as a broker on the Botswana Stock Exchange…. Read more »

Edwin H. Dande 2017 Speaker

Edwin is the Chief Executive Officer of Cytonn Investments Management Plc. Edwin has over 15 years of diversified financial services experience spanning investment banking, private equity, investment management, and real estate in global and regional financial services brands such as KPMG, former Lehman Brothers, Bank of America Securities / Merrill Lynch, and Britam Asset Managers…. Read more »

Temi Ofong 2017 Speaker

TEMI OFONG

Temi is the Managing Executive: Strategic Business Initiatives and COO, working closely with the CIB Africa Chief Executive and is responsible for the day to day functioning of the business. In addition to this role, he is the Deputy Chief Executive for Absa Regional Operations (ARO) accountable for the growth of the CIB Pan-African franchise… Read more »

Allan Wood 2021 Speaker

Allan Wood

As Global Head of Business Development, Allan is responsible for overseeing the promotion of Jersey as a leading international finance centre across key strategic overseas markets including Africa, the Gulf region, Greater China, the US and the UK. Allan joined Jersey Finance in 2015 as Business Development Director, before being promoted to Regional Head –… Read more »

Paul Szkiler 2017 Speaker

Paul is the founder and CEO of Truestone Impact Investment Management, a City based social impact investment firm with over ten years of experience investing in frontier markets.Truestone was originally as a private client wealth manager, focussing on discretionary and advisory asset management. With more than £500 million under management, that business was sold in… Read more »

Hamou Ninouche 2017 Speaker

Currently I am in charge of the Marine and Inland cargo insurance at the Algerian Insurance Company C.A.A.T. Previously, I held several positions at the Company (Internal Auditor, Senior engineering insurance manager assistant, Fire & similar perils manager…). My current focus is on how to reach the low income populations with insurance programs in Africa.

Frederic Mille 2017 Speaker

Frederic is an Investment Officer on the private equity team of MicroVest in charge of the Africa portfolio. Prior to that he worked in Congo and Cameroun on humanitarian and development projects and in Paris in M&A for 10 years where he advised SMEs and PE funds in their financial transactions. Frederic is graduated from… Read more »