Archives: Speakers

Tawiah Ben-Ahmed 2017 Speaker

Mr. Ben-Ahmed is the Country Head and the CEO of Metropolitan Group Ghana. Prior to Joining Metropolitan Ghana He had a successful tenure in Ghana Life Insurance as a Head of Department reporting to the Managing Director from the year 2004 to 2009. His responsibilities covered the driving of profitability and process efficiency across Finance,… Read more »

Michael Pearson 2017 Speaker

Michael Pearson is an experienced director, investor and consultant. In a career of over 30 years in financial services and strategy consulting, Michael has: – Acted as a non-executive director of several financial services companies, and is currently a non-executive director of Tanmeyah, a successful Egyptian microfinance company which is part of EFG Hermes. –… Read more »

Hassan Samir 2017 Speaker

Mr. Hassan Samir graduated from the faculty of economics and political science 1995. He started to work on the brokerage field on the same year. 1998 he joined prime securities as assistant trader manager then trader manager and sales& traders manager then deputy managing director. On 2007 he moved to a private brokerage company as… Read more »

Gaimin Nonyane 2017 Speaker

Gaimin Nonyane is Head of Economic Research at the pan-African bank, Ecobank Group, based in London, and focusses on macroeconomic dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa, fixed income and currencies and market advisory to clients. She joined the bank in November 2012, and helped to launch its first ever Country Profiles, designed to given investors an insight… Read more »

Gregoire Lecomte 2017 Speaker

Gregoire is in charge of investor relations as well as debt funding for Baobab and its 12 affiliates in Africa & China. He is responsible to find appropriate funding resources to reach Group objectives. Gregoire has more than 15 years experiences in financial services (bank, consultant & asset management) and is active in Financial Inclusion… Read more »

Robert Jenkins 2017 Speaker

Robert was one of the pioneers of the private equity industry in the UK. He was a founding partner of Phildrew Ventures, which went on to raise 5 funds totalling >$1bn. The business was sold to UBS Capital in 2000. Robert then worked for Bridgepoint Capital, Europe’s leading private equity business, in a portfolio company… Read more »

Sherif Abd Elaal 2017 Speaker

Sherif Abdel Aal is the Managing Director and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at KAMCO Investment Company. He has more than 20 years of progressive professional experience in investment banking, private equity, direct investments, corporate banking and market research. Previously, he was The Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at Pharos Investment Banking. He… Read more »

Ceaser Siwale 2017 Speaker

CEASER SIWALE

I have been active in the African financial markets for 20 years, with over 15 years of investment banking experience. Within a leading role, I have spearheaded and successfully concluded several landmark transactions in Zambia and other African markets, raising over US$2.5 billion. Sectors of advisory strength are FMCGs, Renewables, Infrastructure, Financial Services, TMT, Logistics… Read more »

Chris Low 2017 Speaker

Chris Low is the Group CEO of Letshego Holdings Limited, a truly African multinational organisation, headquartered and listed in Botswana and focused on delivering inclusive finance solutions to underserved populations across 11 Sub Saharan Markets. With a staff compliment of over 3,000 and more than four hundred thousand customers, Letshego is synonymous with leveraging innovation… Read more »

Karim El Hnot 2017 Speaker

Karim EL HNOT is the CEO of Sogécapital Gestion the asset management arm of Société Générale in Morocco Karim has 20 years experience in the asset management industry in Morocco. He was successively equity analyst, fixed income fund manager, CIO and Deputy CEO in major asset management firms in Morocco before joining Sogécapital Gestion as… Read more »