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Arthur Chupeau
Arthur Chupeau Venture Partner The Baobab Network Arthur is a Venture Partner at The Baobab Network, one of the most successful early stage tech accelerators in Africa. Now based between London, Nairobi and Yaounde, Arthur joined Baobab from I&P in Cameroon to lead on the company’s investments into French speaking Africa as well as portfolio...
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Dayo Akinrinade
Dayo Akinrinade Founder Africlick Dayo’s spent over ten years in IT Management Consulting; delivering analytics and financial transformation programmes at Accenture and Deloitte & Touche. She has designed solutions and led global teams at companies including the London Stock Exchange, Lloyds Banking Group, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria and the Ministry of Defence. She is...
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Christina Sass
Christina Sass Co-Founder & President Andela Christina Sass is the Co-Founder and President of Andela, a network of technology leaders dedicated to advancing human potential. Andela is solving the technical talent shortage by building distributed engineering teams with Africa's top software developers. In five years, Andela has hired over 1,500 developers and become known as...
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Marième Diop
Marième Diop Investment Manager Orange Digital Ventures Africa Marième Diop currently serves as an Investment Manager at Orange Digital Ventures Africa - Orange Group’s 50m€ VC fund dedicated to African startups. Through this role, she’s actively involved in launching and scaling investment vehicles and direct investments targeted at technology startups across Africa. Marieme is passionate...
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Victor Basta
Victor Basta Founder & Managing Partner Magister Advisors Victor Basta is Founder and Managing Partner of Magister Advisors.  He has advised on over 120 transactions across 25 years, and helped found and build three successful corporate finance firms in the process. His orientation has always been towards sell-side M&A, where experience and creativity can yield...
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Tawanda Kembo
Tawanda Kembo CEO Golix  Tawanda Kembo is a fourth generation entrepreneur and one of Africa’s foremost cryptocurrency experts. Tawanda started Africa’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Golix in 2014 - it’s now available in several African countries. Tawanda is one of the earliest adopters of cryptocurrency on the African continent through his involvement with bitcoin in 2012....
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Oluwatobi Otokiti
Oluwatobi Otokiti Technology Product Manager Andela Oluwatobi Otokiti is a Technology Product manager at Andela, a company that builds high performing software engineering teams by investing in Africa's most talented software developers. She is a product development expert with experience in building technology products with great user experiences. Before Andela, she managed payment products that...
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Saad Sheikh
Saad Sheikh Principal TLG Capital Saad is a principal at TLG Capital; a senior member of the investment committee and heads portfolio operations across the firm’s African interests. He is instrumental in origination, structuring and execution of deals across various sectors including healthcare, pharmaceutical, oil and gas, financial inclusion/fintech and FMCG. He is engaged in...
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Omosalewa “O” Adeyemi
Omosalewa “O” Adeyemi Global Partnerships & Expansion Flutterwave Inc Omosalewa “O” works on the partnership and expansion team at Flutterwave.  Flutterwave is a global payments technology company building digital payments infrastructure, with a focus on the African market. We enable digital transactions across Africa, between Africa and other regions. Products include: 1. Rave; an online...
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Richard Woodhull
Richard Woodhull Director - OPIC Mr. Woodhull joined the Small and Medium Enterprise Finance group at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in 2012, focusing on impact investments and international project finance. He has a wide-ranging background in frontier market private equity, international development and impact investing, working at several international organizations such as PwC, UNDP,...
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