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Chuba Ezenwa
Chuba Ezenwa MD Investment Banking Sub-Saharan Africa BofA Chuba Ezenwa joined BofA in November 2022 and is responsible for the firm’s investment banking business across Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) including mergers & acquisitions, equity and debt financings Prior to joining BofAin 2022, he spent over 14 years at Citi within its EMEA equity capital markets...
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Freda Isingoma
Freda Isingoma Fund Manager Octopus Investments Freda Isingoma is an entrepreneur and investment banking professional who has worked in multinational and leading investment institutions in the UK, US and South Africa. Freda has been collecting art from Africa and the Diaspora for over 20 years. In 2018, she founded KIISA to provide innovative investment and...
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Gbenga Ajayi
Gbenga Ajayi Partner QED Investors Gbenga Ajayi is a partner at QED focusing on Africa investments. Gbenga has spent his career working across fintech/tech and Africa in a variety of roles from product development to growth to marketing to partnerships. He has had experience working across Africa, Europe and the U.S. markets. Prior to joining...
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Yvonne Bajela
Yvonne Bajela Partner LocalGlobe Yvonne Bajela is an investment Partner at Phoenix Court. She invests across LocalGlobe and Latitude, with a focus on fintech and adjacent industries. An experienced investor and board member, she has spent over a decade in strategy consulting, deal origination, portfolio and board management across Europe, the Middle East and Africa....
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Ariel White-Tsimikalis
Ariel White-Tsimikalis Partner Goodwin Ariel White-Tsimikalis leads Goodwin’s UK Equity Capital Markets & Public Company Advisory Practice in London and specialises in advising on equity capital markets transactions including IPOs, secondary offerings and private placements; corporate governance matters (including ESG) and general public company representation. Considered one of the leading “new generation” partners in the...
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Solomon Amadi
Solomon Amadi VP Processing Infrastructure Moniepoint Solomon Amadi is currently the VP of Processing Infrastructure @MoniepointInc, a tech company that builds financial solutions to digitise Africa's economy with products such as Moniepoint, Monnify to name a few. He has over a decade of experience in software engineering and His expertise spans Business strategy, Transaction Switching,...
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Sarah FitzMorris
Sarah FitzMorris Co-Founder & CEO Executives in Africa Sarah FitzMorris graduated from Oxford University in 1992 and worked in financial recruitment for ten years before moving 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...
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Folarin Aiyegbusi
Folarin Aiyegbusi Head of Startup Ecosystem Africa Google Folarin Aiyegbusi leads Google's Startup Ecosystem in Africa, which is dedicated to empowering startups across the African continent with the best of Google - its people, methodologies and advanced technology. He is responsible for managing the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa, Black Founders Fund Africa and all...
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Abi Ajayi
Abi Ajayi Head of Primary Markets – Middle East and Africa LSE Abi Ajayi is Head of Primary Markets – Middle East and Africa at the London Stock Exchange with principal responsibility for development of the listings business in the region. Prior to joining the London Stock Exchange Group, Abi was responsible for coverage of...
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Erick Asuma
Erick Asuma Founder & CEO The Kenyan Wall Street Erick Asuma is a passionate entrepreneur who believes in innovations and using technology to improve lives. He has a demonstrated history of delivering technology solutions for the media and financial services industry. He has a wealth of experience in building and scaling startups with skills in...
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