Archives: Speakers

Rutendo was born in Harare, Zimbabwe where she completed her primary school and secondary school education. In 2004, Rutendo moved to Cape Town to commence studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Cape Town, and subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Laws Degree in 2007. Rutendo was then awarded a scholarship to undertake… Read more »

Albert Maasland started his career in banking at Chase Manhattan Bank – later JPMorgan – and during his 11 year career there, was involved in transforming and building a range of highly successful and profitable business units, including launching the world’s first generation of cross-border electronic transaction banking services providing online account and payment services… Read more »

Jacobs Edo is the author of the best-selling book “Digital Transformation: Evolving a digitally enabled Nigerian Public Service”, co-founder of the Austrian based “DigTrans – A Think Tank Group for Digital Transformation and the chair of the Vienna Digital Transformation Meetup. Jacobs is a globally certified enterprise architect, trusted advisor and a public speaker. He… Read more »

Dr. Richard von Kalmar is a Partner at Senga Bay Capital, a project finance boutique focused on the African hospitality industry, the co-founder of Pixdor, a business involved in the monetisation of online content in the hospitality industry, and serves on the Advisory Board of Resources for Leisure Assets, a company focused on the development… Read more »

Yemisi Mokuolu is a leading consultant supporting business growth in Africa providing a range of professional services, such as business development, market entry, partnership brokerage and investment. Yemisi has over 12 years of experience as a business advisor and management consultant within the Creative Industries. She has consulted for Government agencies and private businesses across… Read more »

Jarred founded RisCura in 1999, a company built on the foundations of liability-driven investment (LDI) and effective institutional risk management. Jarred is highly regarded as a pioneer in today’s now widely accepted and evolved theory and practice of LDI. He has extensive understanding of quantitative portfolio techniques and complex instruments as well as judgmental and… Read more »

With a wealth of frontline investment management experience in Africa, Gerald serves as an Executive within RisCura Africa and is responsible for Business Development. He was instrumental in the establishment of RisCura Zimbabwe in 2014 after identifying the country’s need for an independent advisor with proven credentials in advising institutional investors. In his role Gerald… Read more »

Promise Nwankwo (MBA, B.Sc., FCA, Acti, Mcib) Promise is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and an Associate of Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He is an Accounting Graduate of University of Nigeria and also holds a Master’s degree in Finance of the same University. With a post graduate… Read more »

Born in Tanzania, Heri graduated with a BSC Economics degree from Cardiff Business school at the University of Wales in the UK. Heri founded and leads the Pangani Group, a diversified investment Group with interests in Property Development, Property Services, and Financial Services in Tanzania. Pangani Group’s main focus is property development with the establishment… Read more »

Babatunde currently oversees transaction origination, structuring, arranging and execution covering the spectrum of debt and equity capital needs of corporate and government entities. He has over 13 years multi-faceted finance experience cutting across deal structuring, capital raising, M&A, corporate finance and risk management. Prior to joining United Capital, Babatunde worked at Zenith Capital and Afrinvest… Read more »