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Sarah FitzMorris 2024 Speaker

Sarah graduated from Oxford University in 1992 and worked briefly for Arthur Andersen before moving into professional finance recruitment for over ten years. Her career developed into Emerging Markets Search in 2003 initially covering Financial Services in Russia and CIS. Having travelled extensively throughout East, West and Southern Africa, Sarah took the opportunity in 2008… Read more »

Sara Adelaide Odamtten 2024 Speaker

Sara – Adelaide is currently the Head of Trade Services at the UK Ghana Chamber of Commerce, where she is responsible for Research and Advocacy, Capacity Building as well as delivery of Trade services to businesses. In this role, she produces evidence-based research, offers policy advice, and connects with key stakeholders, including UK and Ghanaian… Read more »

Sander de Klerk 2024 Speaker

Sander de Klerk is one of the founders of The Good Roll. With a vision to combine environmental responsibility with social impact, Sander has led The Good Roll in producing 100% recycled and bamboo toilet paper. His mission is to create tree-friendly toilet rolls and improve access to clean toilets worldwide. Sander’s innovative leadership has… Read more »

Sandeep Aneja 2024 Speaker

Sandeep founded Kaizenvest, an education focused asset management firm headquartered in Singapore with offices in Kigali, Johannesburg and Mumbai. Kaizenvest, starting with a private equity fund in India in 2010, has become the leading private equity and private credit investor in the future of learning and future of work domains in emerging Asia and Sub… Read more »

Sam Franklin 2024 Speaker

Representing Helios Investment Partners and its strategies in Private Equity, Climate, Venture Capital, Absolute Return & more.

Saad Sheikh 2024 Speaker

Saad Sheikh is a Partner, based in the London office and leads Enko’s private credit strategy. Prior to joining Enko, from 2014 to 2022, Saad was a Principal at an Africa focused firm, where he was responsible for deal origination, structuring, and execution for their emerging markets private debt fund. Saad focused on various industries… Read more »

Ryan Tuck 2024 Speaker

Ryan Tuck, CEO of Fibrx With over 12 years of experience in telecoms and service provider networks, Ryan Tuck brings deep industry knowledge and expertise to Fibrx. Having spent significant time working across Africa, he possesses first-hand insight into the unique challenges and opportunities of enhancing connectivity in the region. Prior to founding Fibrx, Ryan… Read more »

Ryan Kitcat 2024 Speaker

Ryan Kitcat is a Partner in the Corporate/M&A practice at Bowmans. Ryan specialises in public and private M&A. He has advised JSE-listed and multinational clients on a variety of local and cross-border transactions. He has worked in particular in the energy & natural resources, education, mining, insurance, hospitality, private security, and telecoms sectors. His expertise… Read more »

Ronald Mangani 2024 Speaker

Until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer of Press Corporation plc in 2023, Ronald was an associate professor of economics at the University of Malawi, chairman of Old Mutual Malawi Limited, and director of First Capital Bank Malawi. He was Secretary to the Treasury of the Government of Malawi between 2014 and 2017. Previously, he… Read more »