Archives: Speakers

Andrew Young 2024 Speaker

Andrew joined HPX in 2023 to lead the corporate development and finance functions, he is responsible for the Company’s strategic and corporate initiatives. Andrew started his career in natural resources financing and advisory acting in several roles across London and Toronto.

Andrew Ritchie 2024 Speaker

Andrew Ritchie, founder & CEO of Agri Frontier has spent the past 20 years of his career focused on supporting the growth and development of the African agriculture sector. Andrew founded Agri Frontier in 2014 which is today the leading agri business advisory provider to the food and agriculture sector with offices in East &… Read more »

Andre Ayotte 2024 Speaker

Has over 20 years’ experience in fund management and 10 years of driving women economic empowerment; pioneered unit trusts in Kenya and grew the fund to $100 million mostly made up of local retail investors; one of the first female fund managers in the East Africa region and still holds the record for being the… Read more »

Andia Chakava 2024 Speaker

Has over 20 years’ experience in fund management and 10 years of driving women economic empowerment; pioneered unit trusts in Kenya and grew the fund to $100 million mostly made up of local retail investors; one of the first female fund managers in the East Africa region and still holds the record for being the… Read more »

Aminata Meite 2024 Speaker

Aminata started her career in financial advisory at EY before transitioning into investments in Emerging Markets, especially Africa. Since then, she has worked in different types of organisations (development finance institution, investment banking, venture philanthropy) and was involved in both debt and equity transactions across financial services, energy & manufacturing sectors. In her current role,… Read more »

Ameya Upadhyay 2024 Speaker

Ameya Upadhyay, Venture Partner Ameya invests in disruptive organisations creating economic opportunity for people in emerging markets with a focus on Africa. As a venture partner, he is based in Flourish’s London office. Previously, Ameya worked out of Omidyar Network’s Mumbai office, where he co-led several of the firms’ early Financial Inclusion investments in India…. Read more »

Amanda Kabagambe 2024 Speaker

Amanda is a Transaction Advisor and Management Consultant with over 14 years’ experience providing cross cutting advisory services to increase access to growth capital, solve business issues, increase productivity, and competitiveness of organizations. She has worked in Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. She has extensive experience working with East African… Read more »

Alvaro Perezcano 2024 Speaker

Alvaro has been part of the Speedinvest Growth Markets practice since inception and for the past 5 years. Having made investment across Africa, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia and Europe, Alvaro has a global view on what successful fintech models look like. Alvaro’s strategy within the fund has backed market leaders such as Moove,… Read more »

Allan Hackner 2024 Speaker

Allan joined USAID/South Africa in 2001, initially working as a Program and Project Development Officer for the Urban Settlement, Economic Growth and Health Teams. Later he joined the USAID/Southern Africa Regional Economic Growth Office serving as a Senior Project Development Specialist. He is currently the USAID Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) responsible for managing the $34… Read more »

Alice Usanase 2024 Speaker

Alice Usanase is an accomplished investment executive with over a decade of expertise in identifying and developing over $1 billion in investment opportunities in frontier markets. As the Head of Country Relations and Equity Mobilization at Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), Alice has spearheaded efforts to raise over $600 million in new capital, doubled the organization’s… Read more »