Archives: Speakers

Abdoul Anziz Said Attoumane is a financial sector and investment specialist. He is expert in policy advisory services, portfolio management and strategic investment. He has wide experience in due diligence, performance monitoring, risk assessment and valuation. He is graduated from INSEEC Business and Economics SChool of Bordeaux, France. He is passionate about making financial sectors… Read more »

James Duddridge MP was the UK’s Minister for Africa from 2014 to 2016.   During this time he visited over 20 countries meeting Presidents, Prime Ministers and business leaders.  His particular passion is business in Africa and specifically how business growth can help grow the continent out of poverty. He has been Chairman of the All… Read more »

Lars Kroijer is the founder and CEO of AlliedCrowds, a data and analytics firm focused on crowdfunding and alternative finance in emerging markets. Previously Mr. Kroijer was the CIO of Holte Capital Ltd, a London-based market neutral special situations hedge fund which he founded in 2002 before returning external capital in the spring of 2008…. Read more »

Radoslav is the founder & CEO of Bitbond, the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans. He is a frequent speaker at conferences about financial innovation and financial inclusion. Before founding Bitbond he worked for Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and advised financial services providers in Europe and Western Africa in restructuring and post-merger… Read more »

Thubelihle Ndlovu is a seasoned banker with over 11 years experience in the Financial Services Industry.She has worked for 4 Financial Institutions and has experience in mortgage lending,retail banking,corporate banking,treasury banking as well as Micro-finance.She is the managing director for Portify Investments, a developmental micro-finance Institution that lends to women and the youth.

Edan is the CEO of Epiphyte, which provides financial institutions with faster, cheaper and most transparent international transactions over the Bitcoin Blockchain Network. He is a leading blockchain expert and distributed ledger technologist. He is a founding member of DATA, the international self-regulatory body and standards association for the digital asset industry. With his deep… Read more »

Justin Sykes is a social investment specialist with over 15 years experience in structuring, financing and implementation of innovative and large-scale impact investments for clients including private wealth structures,  international charities, multilateral and bilateral development agencies as well as innovative investees such as social enteprises and microfinance institutions. These investments have positively impacted thousands of… Read more »

Sam has over fifteen years of career and business experience which spans across Wealth Creation, Retirement and Financial Planning, Marketing and Business Development, Investment Banking, Microfinance, Financial Engineering, Management Consulting, Entrepreneurship and Lecturing. He is the C.E.O of Galaxy Capital Ltd (An Investment Banking and Pension Fund Management firm licensed by the S.E.C-Ghana and National Pensions… Read more »

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 »

Judith is a specialist in financial market development for developing countries. She has more than two decades’ experience as an investment banker at JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank and spent six years at SOAS where she was research assistant on the EU FESSUD project on financialisation, adjunct lecturer and completed a PhD in financial sector… Read more »