Speaker Group: Business Leader

Jessica Davies 2020 Speaker

Jessica Davies

Jessica is a Senior Disruption Analyst in Nedbank’s Disruption and Innovation team. The team has a global mandate to experiment with, commercialise and fund the most talented teams working on the biggest opportunities, using their expertise to do good. They were awarded the FT Banker’s inaugural fintech partnership Tech Project Award in 2018 for their… Read more »

Linda Broekhuizen 2020 Speaker

Linda Broekhuizen

Linda Broekhuizen is Chief Investment Officer in FMO’s Management Board since 2014. In this role, she is responsible for FMO’s total investment portfolio of more than EUR 9 billion. FMO is the Dutch development bank, investing since 1970 in the private sector in developing economies in Africa, Asia and Latin America. FMO’s investments focus on… Read more »

Vahid Monadjem 2020 Speaker

Vahid Monadjem

Vahid Monadjem is co-founder and CEO of Nomanini, an Africa-focused pioneering fintech platform for the informal retail ecosystem. Nomanini connects merchants and distributors to each other and to global service providers, integrating payments, working capital, and data analytics to unlock the latent potential of Africa’s economy. Vahid is an engineer with innovation and product design… Read more »

Lamia Merzouki 2020 Speaker

Lamia Merzouk

Lamia Merzouki, is Deputy General Manager at Casablanca Finance City Authority (CFCA), which she joined at its inception in 2010. Before that, Lamia was part of AKWA Group, the largest private group in Morocco, within which she held the position of Director of Strategy and organization for 7 years. She also worked on the Green… Read more »

Chijioke Dozie 2021 Speaker

Chijioke Dozie 

Chijioke Dozie is the CEO of online consumer finance platform OneFi and Carbon (formerly Paylater), the digital financial services company, which after being founded in 2016 has been downloaded by over 1.5 million users and recently secured a $5mn debt facility from Lendable. OneFi is also the first African fintech company to receive a credit… Read more »

Marco Yamaguchi 2020 Speaker

Marco Yamaguchi

Marco is a Non-Sovereign Infrastructure Finance Division Manager at African Development Bank based in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. His main mission is to lead to originate non-sovereign infrastructure projects across the region. Prior to joining AfDB, Marco spent 20 years in infrastructure/ climate finance both at public and private sectors such as Sustainable Energy Finance program… Read more »

Roland Tatnall 2020 Speaker

Roland Tatnall

Over a 20 year career, Roland has lived, worked or built businesses in infrastructure sectors in over 15 African countries. He was a founding member of the first private equity infrastructure fund focused solely on sub-Saharan Africa; co-founded an award winning private equity infrastructure boutique; and established Mubadala Infrastructure Partners’ first office, and strategy outside… Read more »

Lambert Osei Kofi 2021 Speaker

Lambert Osei Kofi

Lambert is a microfinance and banking expert. I am currently the Chief Executive Officer of Eman Capital Microfinance. I also the former National Board Chairman of Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies (GAMC). I was recently a member of the National Council of Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network(GHAMFIN). My additional responsibility as a Part Time Lectuerer at… Read more »

Benedikt Kramer 2021 Speaker

Ben Kramer 

Ben Kramer is CEO and co-founder of awamo. Prior to founding awamo, Ben has been working with the African Development Corporation and KPMG. He was named Forbes 30 under 30 by Forbes Magazine and Innovator Under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Ben is a Certified Expert in Microfinance. He studied in Germany, the US, and… Read more »

Samir Ibrahim 2021 Speaker

Samir Ibrahim

Samir Ibrahim is the CEO and co-founder of SunCulture, which develops and commercializes life-changing technology that solves the biggest daily challenges for smallholder farmers. He has spoken on productive use technology and the future of smallholder farming to the Vienna Energy Forum, COP21, the International Parliamentary Conference, the World Energy Congress, and TEDx. Samir is… Read more »