Archives: Speakers

David van Dijk
David van Dijk Team Lead Boost Africa For the past years David van Dijk has been mobilizing investment capital and managing entrepreneurship support programs with a specific focus on technology and Africa. David heads up the team that is building and managing the TA (technical assistance) program for Boost Africa, a fund-of-fund investing in early-stage...
Bio Details →
Alison Merifield
Alison Merifield Consultant Ali has worked across PR, corporate comms, government relations, fundraising and digital marketing in the UK, US and Africa. As Director of africapractice, Southern Africa she ran pan-African PR and comms for Google, Blackberry, Diageo and CNN Africa. She ran Tech4Africa and the African Leadership Network for a year, before spending 15...
Bio Details →
Neanda Salvaterra
Neanda Salvaterra Agenda Neanda Salvaterra is an editor and writer. Most recently, she worked as a senior reporter at Agenda, a Financial Times publication, where she covered issues including executive compensation and rising investor interest in environmental, social and governance matters. Previously, she spent almost a decade working at The Wall Street Journal, where she...
Bio Details →
Bosun Tijani
Bosun Tijani Founder and Chief Executive Co-Creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB) Bosun Tijani is the founder and Chief Executive of Co-Creation Hub Nigeria (CcHUB). He is an innovation expert who has invested the last 15 years evangelising an industry-wide shift to technology innovation, which has helped position start-ups as the anchor of the tech ecosystem in...
Bio Details →
Russ Shaw
Russ Shaw Founder Tech London Advocates Russ is the Founder of Tech London Advocates, a global advocacy group of 4,000 senior leaders in the tech community, created to champion and accelerate the growth of London’s technology sector.  He has also set up Global Tech Advocates and creating similar ecosystems globally. Russ is a non-executive director...
Bio Details →
Nadir Khamissa
Nadir Khamissa Founder and CEO of Bedlam Inc. and Hello Group Nadir Khamissa, founder and CEO of Bedlam Inc. and Hello Group, is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for startups and investing. All businesses he has started have been self-funded and bootstrapped, gaining success on minimal financial resources. Currently, he is angel investing and...
Bio Details →
Aurelien Duvaldelort Director - Open Tech Hub
Aurelien Duvaldelort
Aurelien Duvaldelort Director - Open Tech Hub Orange Middle-East & Africa Aurélien is an Intrapreneur at Orange. He recently launched Open Tech Hub, a new B2B2C platform powering digital transformation across Middle-East & Africa. Deeply committed to Africa digital transformation, he works with startups, large companies and NGOs to help them build innovative mobile services...
Bio Details →
Christopher Baker-Brian Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Christopher Baker-Brian
Christopher Baker-Brian Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer BBOXX Christopher Baker-Brian is co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of BBOXX, a company that designs, manufactures, distributes and finances innovative solar systems to improve access to energy across Africa and the developing world. Since 2010, BBOXX has sold more than 100,000 solar kits and impacted over 500,000 lives...
Bio Details →
Chinedu Enekwe
Chinedu Enekwe
Chinedu Enekwe Co-Founder tiphub Co-founder of tiphub an innovation factory based in Washington DC that supports early stage technology and social enterprises in Africa and the African Diaspora. Also, currently a financial analyst consultant in the World Bank Energy & Extractives group and Mentorship Manager in the Young African Society of the World Bank-IMF. Joined...
Bio Details →
Jonathan Rosenthal is The Economist‘s London-based Africa Editor
Jonathan Rosenthal
Jonathan Rosenthal Africa Editor The Economist Jonathan Rosenthal is The Economist‘s London-based Africa Editor. He joined The Economist in 2005 as British business correspondent, having worked for several years at Bloomberg News in London and Johannesburg. Before that he was the mining editor of Business Report, a South African daily newspaper. His previous roles at...
Bio Details →
back to top