Archives: Speakers

Oscar Silva is Chairman of Davos International Advisory Ltd, a London based advisory firm focused on private equity across emerging markets. He has over 30 years of experience leading investment banking and investment management businesses in emerging markets. His recent experience includes over US $250 mm of fundraising advisory to private equity funds targeting the… Read more »

Ifeoma Anthonia Okeke is a certified Micro Finance bank practitioner of the Chartered Institute of bankers Nigeria. A member of the Chartered Institute of Stock brokers Nigeria. Ifeoma has over 16 years experience in Stock broking, Portfolio Management, Banking, Business Development, Customer Service and Brand Management. Ifeoma worked as a Stock Broker,Portfolio and Investment Manager… Read more »

Elizabeth Howard is the CEO and Co-founder of LelapaFund, a fintech company that uses tech-enabled investment processes to make the economics of small deals in African SMEs viable for funds and angels. She is also a Director and Regulations Lead of the African Crowdfunding Association, responsible for development the regulatory framework for securities-based crowdfunding for… Read more »

Suresh Samuel is Managing Director for Africa at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) where he is responsible for managing business development activities for project and corporate finance, political risk insurance and private equity investments.  Previously, Mr. Samuel worked in OPIC’s Structured Finance department where he was responsible for the underwriting and execution of investments… Read more »

Ayodele holds a First Class Honours degree in Applied Accounting from the Oxford Brookes University, U.K. and is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and an Authorised Dealing Clerk of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants… Read more »

Alex has lived in Tanzania for over 5 years, and worked in the Oil and Gas industry before starting Africa Insight Advisors in 2015. Africa Insight Advisors (AIA) is based in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and operates throughout East Africa. At its core, the company leverages strong local understanding and combines it with Western business… Read more »

Zain is a seasoned private equity professional with extensive experience across the entire private equity spectrum from fundraising to origination and exit including managing troubled assets. Prior to co-founding Kleoss Capital, Zain was at Emerging Capital Partners between 2006-2012. With seven funds and over $2.0 billion under management, ECP is a leading private equity manager… Read more »

Leading Accion’s Africa Board Fellowship program, focused on strengthening governance and risk-management practices, technology trends and innovation as well as developing strategic leadership abilities in Africa through peer learning for board members of banks, MFIs and Fintechs. More than 27 years of experience in microfinance management, banking and credit. Managing Director Akiba Commercial Bank, Tanzania,… Read more »

Cédric Mbeng Mezui is Chief African Bond Markets and leads the African Financial Markets Initiative (AFMI) www.africanbondmarkets.org at the African Development Bank. Since 2008, he has carried out field missions to finance projects (public and private) and the implementation of financial sector reforms in more than 40 countries in Africa and for more than $… Read more »

Cobus co-founded Africa Merchant Capital in 2012 as a privately owned boutique merchant bank, focused on the high growth private capital markets of Sub-Sahara Africa. In 2016, AMC Trade Finance was launched, which provides flexible, secured trade finance to importers and exporters through a transactional trade finance model, to add to our existing corporate finance… Read more »