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Philip Hopkins 2021 Speaker

Philip Hopkins 

Phil has considerable experience in structuring and closing international equity and debt offerings for banks and other financial institutions. He has served as Director of Investments, Africa for Equator Capital Partners, LLC since 2013. From 2005- 2013, Phil was Senior Vice President at WorldBusiness Capital, where he managed origination, underwriting, closing, collections and portfolio management… Read more »

Franklin Olakunle Amoo 2017 Speaker

Franklin Olakunle Amoo is a Partner at Baylis Emerging Market, an investment management firm focused on making growth equity investments in middle market manufacturing and industrial assets on a pan-African basis Prior to co-founding Baylis, Franklin led the Strategic Credit Group at Mizuho Securities USA, the securities brokerage arm of the $1.8 trillion Mizuho Financial… Read more »

Tim Nuy 2021 Speaker

Timothy Nuy 

Timothy Nuy founded Finclusion in July 2018 with a vision of enabling financial inclusion through data driven lending. Timothy has over 10 years of international experience across Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa in management, investment and advisory capacity. During his previous tenure with MyBucks from 2014 until 2018, Timothy was most notably involved with the group’s… Read more »

Marc Immerman 2017 Speaker

Marc is the managing principal and a key man in the Metier Sustainable Private Equity Practice, he has been integral in the creation and management of the Lereko Metier Sustainable Capital Fund and two affiliated funds which target investment in renewable energy, energy efficiency, water and waste in Southern Africa and currently are invested in… Read more »

Olufunmi Adepoju, CFA, FRM 2021 Speaker

Olufunmi Adepoju

Mrs Funmi Adepoju is a graduate of accounting from the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2000. Her work experience spans various sectors of the financial sector including banking, economic research, Risk management and ratings. She has worked in reputable organisations including Prudent Bank Plc, Financial Derivatives Company,… Read more »

Nikhel Chung Sam Wan 2017 Speaker

Prior to his position as Head of Business Development at Sunibel, Nikhel was heading a team of professionals at one of the largest management companies in Mauritius. He had the responsibility of servicing a roster of clients consisting of listed companies, sovereign wealth funds and multinationals. With over seven years of experience in the industry,… Read more »

Samuel Kwabi Ameyaw 2017 Speaker

Samuel Kwabi Ameyaw has over 11 years banking experience spanning from retail banking, loan recoveries and microfinance in reputable institutions like Opportunity International Savings & Loans Limited, Access Bank and Nationwide Microfinance Limited. Until his current job, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Home Support & Allied Microfinance Limited located at Tesano in Accra…. Read more »

Adenike Kuti 2017 Speaker

Adenike drives investments for LeapFrog’s $350 million investment partnership with Prudential Financial, targeting life insurance companies in leading economies across Africa. Before taking the leap to LeapFrog, Adenike worked at Africa Finance Corporation, a pan-African development finance institution. There, she was responsible for sourcing, executing and managing power and heavy industries investments across Africa. She… Read more »

Paul Asamoah 2017 Speaker

Mr. PAUL ASAMOAH is a young Entrepreneur and the Chief Executive Officer of Skytrust, highly reputable financial company in Ghana. MCIPS holder and Financial Management by profession, having been in the sector for the past Seventeen (17) years, He is also the founder and current Shareholder of Skytrust, Serving over 2500 Ghanaian indigenous Business within… Read more »

H. John Wilson 2017 Speaker

John Wilson is the Manager for FIG new business in East & Southern Africa, based in Nairobi.  He assumed this role in November 2015, having been Head of Banking and Chief Banking Specialist since September 2012. He joined IFC as Principal Banking Specialist focused on CAF in January 2009. John started his career at McKinsey… Read more »