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Conrad Amm 2024 Speaker

Conrad Amm Skybound Group Chief Executive Officer Conrad holds a BBusSc Finance honours degree with majors in Economics and Finance from the University of Cape Town. With over 25 years of experience in investment and business, both in South Africa and abroad, he brings a wealth of expertise. Prior to his appointment at Skybound Capital… Read more »

Colm Cloonan 2024 Speaker

Colm is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) with over 20 years’ experience in various finance roles. Colm is the Finance Director at Tlou Energy Limited, a listed entity focused on gas-to-power development in Botswana. Colm has been with the company since 2009 and has played a vital role in the… Read more »

Cobus Visagie 2024 Speaker

Cobus co-founded Africa Merchant Capital in 2012. Prior to founding AMC, he served as Principal for Africa at Templewood Merchant Bank. His professional experience includes corporate finance advisory, merchant banking, business consulting and auditing, as well as personal investing in Africa. Cobus qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers in South Africa, spending the last… Read more »

Chuma Ajene 2024 Speaker

An MBA Graduate of Harvard Business School, Mr. Ajene is currently Access Bank’s Global Head of Strategic Investments and leads the group’s investment and funding activities across its various business segments (banking, payments, asset management, et al) on a pan-African basis. He was previously Corporate Development Director, Head of Strategic Investments and Financing at Atlas… Read more »

Chukwuerika Achum 2024 Speaker

Chukwuerika Achum is a prominent figure in the aviation industry, known for his entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and exceptional leadership skills. He is the founder of aviation services outfit, VivaJets, technology platforms; FlyPJX and CharterXE; and business incubation outfit, The Adrenalina, making significant contributions towards technology innovations within the Aviation industry and engendering business capacity development… Read more »

Christophe Bachelet 2024 Speaker

Christophe Bachelet is the Country Managing Partner and founding Partner of the Office of DLA Piper in Casablanca. He has over 25 years’ experience (half of which spent in Morocco) of helping a wide range of clients (PE Funds, State owned companies, sponsors and DFIs) in their Investment in Morocco and Africa. Christophe is a… Read more »

Christophe de Montille 2024 Speaker

Christophe de Montille is a Principal at Beyond Capital Ventures who leads the company’s African investment portfolio. Prior to joining Beyond Capital, Christophe previously worked as a management consultant for 10 years before leading transaction advisory work for Small Enterprise Assistance Fund, Castalia, and Aser Capital. Christophe holds a M.B.A. and M.A. from George Washington… Read more »

Christoph Both 2024 Speaker

Christoph Both is a Senior Advisor since 2022 at GET.invest, a European technical assistance program that mobilizes investment in renewable energy in developing countries. He has a background in banking/ finance and engineering, supplemented by a diverse professional practice. Christoph has more than 20 years of experience in corporate and project finance across developed and… Read more »

Christina Clark-Lowes 2024 Speaker

Christina is the investment lead at Cadmus (formerly Nathan Associates), with more than twelve years’ experience specialising in economic growth, finance and investment, access to finance, private sector development, market systems development and SME support in frontier markets in Africa and Asia. In her role she is responsible for Cadmus’ portfolio of investment projects starting… Read more »

Christina Igono 2024 Speaker

Dr. Christina T. Igono is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Eight Orbit Urban Farms. She is an award winning research scientist, an agriculture/environmental/soil consultant, and an entrepreneur.