Africa

Chief Executive Officer | Africa Speciality Risks Mikir Shah has over 25 years of experience in Africa. Prior to ASR, he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of AXA Africa Specialty Risks. A highly skilled practitioner with extensive financial experience, Mikir has also previously held the position of Head of Insurance (UK) and Head of… read more »

Chief Sustainable Impact Officer | Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) Marco provides leadership on driving sustainable development impact across PIDG companies. He oversees the early stage impact assessment of all PIDG investments, the process for monitoring and evaluating their impact and PIDG programmatic work to deepen sustainable development impact including on gender and climate. Marco… read more »

Head, Private Sector Engagement | COP28 UAE Hanan Bakr Sakr is the Head of Private Sector Engagement team for the UAE Climate Change Special Envoy office for COP28. She is a former Finance Head with the UNFCCC High-Level Climate Champions and MENAT head of Energy Sector and Sustainability Lead for HSBC with a diversified experience… read more »

Managing Director & CEO | Lagos Free Zone (Tolaram Group) Dinesh Rathi is a member of the leadership team at Tolaram, a Singapore-headquartered conglomerate with major interests in Africa. He is leading the infrastructure vertical in Nigeria which involves the development and operations of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) which is deeply integrated with Lekki… read more »

Vice President – Private Sector, Infrastructure & Industrialisation | African Development Bank omon Quaynor is the Vice President for Private Sector, Infrastructure & Industrialization at the African Development Bank (AfDB).  He joined AfDB in May 2020.  He has over 25 years’ experience in development finance and investment banking.    From 2018-2020 after Mr. Quaynor left IFC… read more »

Obi Asika, Founder, Cabal Entertainment is acknowledged as one of the key African voices in the creative, media, entertainment, cultural and innovation industries, he is a policy expert, thought leader, executive producer for Film & TV, Music and Live events and has a 30 year track record of success in the sector, he is one… read more »

Dale is a best-selling author and former SA Businesswoman of the Year. Dale started through-the-line agency Chillibush from a suburban garage in 1998.  The agency was ranked a top three small South African agency by Finweek and the Financial Mail.  Dale sold Chillibush in 2014 at which time it was billing more than R100m per… read more »

Mteto Nyati invests in unlisted medium sized companies that operate in high growth areas. He is the published author of the best seller “Betting on a Darkie”. In 2021 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Johannesburg’s College of Business and Economics. Mteto is a former group CEO of Altron and CEO… read more »

Ricardo Oberlander was born in Brazil and has most recently served as President & CEO of Reynolds American after holding a range of senior marketing and regional leadership roles at British American Tobacco, which has operations in 180 countries. Throughout his career, which includes a B2B and telecom background, he has been a thought leader… read more »

Sharon is a seasoned marketer, with over 30 years of experience in B2C and B2B Marketing, and has held marketing leadership roles at Unilever, The Coca-Cola Company, Brandhouse, Standard Bank CIB and is currently Marketing Director for Heineken Beverages. She has worked in South Africa, across sub-Saharan Africa and has also worked in global roles… read more »

Andisa Ntsubane is the Managing Executive: Brand, Marketing and Communications for Vodacom Group Andisa is responsible for leading a world-class Brand, Marketing and Communications capability that unlocks value for the organization, supports its purpose-led strategy for value creation and growth across its markets, to deepen the connection between employees, customers, communities and broader stakeholders with… read more »

Sitho is currently Chief Executive Officer of Vodacom South Africa, a role he has held since 1 July 2022 after a successful tenure as Managing Director of Vodacom Tanzania from November 2021. Sitho is an established business leader with over 20 years’ experience in finance, consulting, and management in both emerging and developed markets. He… read more »

Brian Mtongana is the recently appointed Executive Creative Director for Woolworths South Africa. A creative custodian of the Woolworths brand for the past 13 years, Brian’s oversight of our brand expression and execution now extends beyond his design and packaging remit to include the integration of all creative touchpoints. Playing a key leadership role in our in-house creative agency since its… read more »

Having started his advertising career at award winning Joburg agency Chillibush, Kwanele went on to establish Theo & Lotte in New York. T&L is a boutique real estate and hospitality creative agency, and Minority-Owned Business Enterprise (MBE), founded by Kwanele in response to the lack of diversity and inclusion he experienced working within New York’s… read more »

Jarred Cinman is Joint CEO of VMLY&R South Africa and a long-time pioneer in South Africa’s digital landscape. He began his career in digital advertising in the early 90s when the Internet was still new and not well understood. As a result, he learnt almost everything he knows on the job and has helped shape… read more »