MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Camilo is the Head of Data & Analytics for Barclays Bank Mozambique. He started his professional life as Electronic Engineer, thriving his early stages on a telecom company as a Data Security Engineer.After 7 year performing different activities such as: IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture...

Johnstone Angwenyi is a Financial Analyst with the Central Bank of Kenya. Johnstone Angwenyi’s main responsibilities include; participating in the review of prudential guidelines and legislation related to banking, process corporate approval requests by banks after reviewing their compliance to...

Matt Argent is a passionate fintech professional, in his element when fintech is used for the greater good, such as increasing financial inclusion. Most recently he has built a regional network of innovation hubs that enable fast market entry and scaling as well as de-risking digital innovation...

A Pan African Senior Corporate Professional and International Conference Speaker, with a Solid career in Strategy, Performance Management, Accounting, and Business Development, from Banking (Consumer, Corporate, Commercial), and Oil and Gas perspectives. Leading by example, self- motivated and...

Avsharn is a technology strategist that specialises in digital transformation, software engineering, data analytics, machine learning, cloud computing, DevOps, and enterprise architecture. He is an expert in translating business requirements into workable solutions, using best practice...

Marius Botha is a technologist and digital solution consultant. He heads up the Intelligent Automation strategy for TFG.Over the last two decades he was involved in the fields of ECM, Retail Systems, FinTech, Programme Management, Relationship Management and Intelligent Automation.He is also the...

Erika seeks out all things new an innovative and holds a particular interest in innovation in the insurance market, where she’s worked for 15 years. She has a passion for advising and coaching entrepreneurs and young companies.Among her successful past projects is the creation of a new insurance...

After completing a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cape Town, Thomas Brennan was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship in 2004. In 2009 he completed his D.Phil. in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford. Prior to completing his DPhil he interned with Google ...

Lee has been with FNB for over 15 years arriving straight out of University. In his 15 years, he has enjoyed a diverse range of roles and exposure across FNB’s complex business. He worked in Credit Card, Forex, Business, Core Lending Products and Life Insurance, his roles and responsibilities...

Angus was one of the founding team, and later CEO of eBucks.com in 2000. After serving FirstRand for 11 years in various senior roles, he was the Head of Alliance Banking and CIO at Mercantile Bank Limited for 4 years. He introduced payment capabilities to Blue Label Telecoms and then MMI...

Shaun is a former banker and serial financial services entrepreneur based in Mauritius. He is the CEO of March Hare & Co Ltd, a financial technology services company and the cofounder and director of La Plage Capital. An early stage impact investment fund. He is best known for founding and...

Ken is a professionally qualified data governance and risk management practitioner with more than 16 years of Managerial and Executive experience in the provision of Information Risk and Governance services. He currently holds an Executive role with the largest Banking Group in Africa as the Head...

Marshal is a Chartered Accountant and is accredited in three jurisdictions – Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana. He has over 12 years’ experience with key competences in strategy implementation, governance, accounting and financial analysis spread across a range of sectors. Marshal has held...

Brighton is a Tech futurist and enthusiast with vast experience in Management consulting, Business transformation and Change, Knowledge sharing and skills transfer across a vertical of industries ranging from Financial services, Telecoms, Health, Agriculture, Insurance to mention a few in the...

Dominique Collett is a Senior Investment Executive at Rand Merchant Insurance Holdings and runs AlphaCode, a club for next generation financial Services entrepreneurs.  AlphaCode provides mentorship, financial services expertise, corporate connections and growth capital with the purpose of...

Share Curran is a CA(SA) and tech entrepreneur.  He is a co founder of InvestSure – a world first insurance product.  Shane co-founded InvestSure in 2017 and serves as the Managing Director. In that time InvestSure have partnered with one of the largest global re-insurers, performed...

Mpho Dagada is an entrepreneur, author and speaker who has a passion for business. He is also passionate about community development and he is an active and pivotal member in community projects. Mpho is a cryptocurrency expert, who specialises in bitcoin, he has vast experience in the field. He is...

Kim Dancey, a lawyer by training, focuses on transactional financial services, and is a financial inclusion practioner. Kim’s expertise includes the regulatory implications of digital financial services, in both developing and emerging economies.  As Head of Payments for FNB International, Kim is...

o    Dhanyal serves as a Senior Investment Associate in Goodwell’s Southern African Team, where he contributes to pipeline and portfolio development. o    Goodwell Investments is an impact investor focused on financial inclusion, fintech and inclusive growth in sectors providing basic goods and...

Paresh has spent his career specialising in fintech, primarily in front office trading - working for global, tier-one investment banks across UK and South Africa. Moving into the digital forefront, he is now the Blockchain Strategist for Standard Bank based in South Africa, ex Chairman of...

Carel de Jager began his career as a Chemical Engineer in the energy industry. He now works as a consultant for the Blockchain Academy, facilitating a wide range of blockchain related training courses and presentations. Through the academy, he also delivers customised, industry-specific training to ...

Nomathemba Dzinotyiwei is the Head of Credit Card Products at Absa. She joined Absa in 2014 where she has held Product Management roles in International Trade and Payments and Head of the SWIFT Centre of Excellence. She has held management roles in transactional Banking at Standard Chartered Bank...

Matthew Elan Smith is 26 years old and has a formal background is in actuarial science and statistics. He grew up in Johannesburg and was one of the top Matriculants of 2010 at Crawford College Sandton, matriculating with 7 distinctions. He studied a BSC in Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial...

Ashraf has over 20 years' combined experience in corporate finance, banking, fund management and more recently, in development finance and impact investing. He has led pioneering financing institutions such as the Mauritius Leasing Company, Bramer Bank and National Commercial Bank with...

•    I currently hold  the position of Manager: Regulatory Impact and Strategy in the Treasury and Capital Management division of Standard Bank Group•    My role entails Analysing and Researching Financial Impact of all new and proposed local and international Banking and Insurance...

Eugéne Etsebeth is currently the COO of iCE3X cryptocurrency exchange in South Africa.  He became the inaugural chairman of the Virtual Currency and Distributed Ledger Technology Working Group at the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) in 2016. At the SARB he was a lead for the following...

Youma Fall is the Chief Product Officer at PayDunya, an online payments solution that facilitates access to financial services to the unbanked population of West Africa. Paydunya is a global payment and online service for African consumers, businesses, financial institutions and governments to send ...

Paul Finch is the co-founder of Growth Studio, a global consultancy that helps corporations measurably deliver on their innovation ambitions and launch new products by collaborating with startups. Paul is an expert in lean methodology, growth strategy and helping startups validate business...

Darren Franks, Founder & CEO is a thought leader in talent acquisition strategies with a specialist focus on the African FinTech sector and launched TalentintheCloud in March 2016 to help improve the way African FinTech’s across the continent acquire and retain key talent. Darren’s passion for...

Ronald Gall was appointed at CEO of Africa for Claim Central in April 2018. Claim Central is a global claims solutions business.Ronald has been a founder, shareholder and director in customer experience and insurtech companies for 18 years.Focused primarily in customer engagement and digitization...

Brad has 20 years payments and banking experience.  His payments experience covers a deep involvement with industry organisations, associations and regulators both in South Africa as well as across SADC and the rest of Africa. These include national and regional switches, card and payments...

I'm a Behavioural Economist with a passion for decision science and consumer behaviour. I am a natural leader, constantly looking to expand my knowledge base, a skilled researcher and presenter and have good experience within financial services across two continents. An international award...

I am an ambitious, dynamic young leader that has the ability to gather people on a journey to a common goal and objective.I have had a number of achievements in my career some include being chosen as one of 16 individuals in Standard Bank IT to partake in the 2013 Accelerated Leadership Initiative...

David is a business builder. Over the past 21 years, he has successfully consulted to Financial Services clients in India, the Middle East and Africa. He has helped to build and sell a successful consulting and contracting business, and lead teams on the business development side, operational side...

Temenos launched Infinity, a breakthrough digital front office product, in January 2019. Javier heads up the Digital Channels business across Africa and is responsible for aligning the organisation’s sales capability across the continent with the needs of a market, which is increasingly focused on...

Caroline has 25 years of experience and expertise gained as a practicing data and information and business resiliency profes-sional across several industries in South Africa, including Financial Services, FMCG, Telecommunications and Supply Chain Management. Caroline has worked both in large...

Colin Iles has 20 years of experience working for some of the top global consultancies and financial institutions in London, Frankfurt, Singapore and most recently South Africa. Throughout his career Colin has focused on designing and implementing solutions that bring positive benefits to the...

•    Idan has come from a strong entrepreneurial background and has had very close relations to many SMEs ranging in industries. He was managing a group of 80 small businesses for 4 years and worked hand in hand with them from daily operations to financing, to strategizing. In 2016, he started his...

Corné Janse van Rensburg has over 20 years’ experience in the financial services sector. His career spans training, consulting, business analytics and business enablement both internationally and locally. He holds an MBA from GIBS and has also completed a course through MIT on the implications of...

Stacey Japhta is the Manager of Business Development at TalentintheCloud, an Executive Search firm that specializes in FinTech & Payments talent across Africa & Europe. She has a passion for Women & Diversity and her position at TalentintheCloud includes fueling the FinTech Ecosystem...

Rayan Jawad is the co-founder of Growth Studio, a global consultancy that helps corporations measurably deliver on their innovation ambitions and launch new products by collaborating with startups.Best known as a Growth Hacker but a Data Strategist by profession, Rayan is an expert in lean...

I’m a passionate strategist in business and marketing with years of experience and proven track record in helping companies attain a desired position in the market through dedicated efforts and well-thought strategies.Currently heading the Marketing and Communication function of Exim Bank...

Appointed as Chief Operations Officer for Zanaco on 3rd April, 2017, Diana Kangwa–Muya has a wealth of experience in Information Technology and Operations Management. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Zambia, a Master’s Degree...

*FinTech Enthusiast, VP for Open Innovation at Barclays Africa *Lead Judge at FinTech Africa Awards 2016 & 2017*Creator of Africa’s Leading FinTech Accelerator *Innovation Award Winner and advisor to Africa's top fintechs*Harvard Educated Recent highlights: Founding Member of Rise...

I have spent ten years building and scaling new digital banking businesses. I am presently the Deputy CEO of TymeBank, a digital bank (fully licensed by the South African Reserve Bank) that delivers financial inclusion to underserviced customers. In addition to driving cross-functional execution...

Philip Kiracofe brings two decades of direct operational and venture financing experience spanning a diverse range of industries across three continents. He has co-founded, led, advised and invested in disruptive companies including a pioneer online grocery service company, three venture capital...

Currently taking care of the Product house in the Transactional Banking space at Commercial Bank of Africa (a bank known as a lead for its digital innovations), Jane Kombo has been a lead in many banking and industrywide initiatives involving the Kenyan banking industry players, Fintechs and the...

≎≎≎OVERVIEW≎≎≎Holding senior roles in the banking industry for over 12 years, I am a seasoned professional in my field. I have proven through my numerous initiatives that I am able to bring in millions of Rands in revenue, and have been recognised as a Nedbank Retail Achiever. I am able to...

Kudzai is the co-founder and CEO of Mobbisurance, a startup that is developing a mobile based crop insurance product and other financial services for smallholder farmers. Through the use and analysis of satellite imagery, Kudzai and his team have been able to drive down costs significantly...

Lee Ann Lancaster is the Chief Growth Officer for Mama Money. Mama Money is an innovative tech company and the world’s first Social Business Money Transfer Operator and financial services company. Lee Ann is also a Board Member to the African Women in Fintech and Payments and The 88 Business...

Tebogo Legodi is a proficient strategist within the eCommerce and digital migration areas. Core focus areas include the provision of solutions set to improve the Digital presence of brands and increase their Commercial value. With over 10 years’ experience in the e-Commerce space, Tebogo has worked ...

Adri is a passionate and committed leader obsessed with innovation and creating processes that result in superb customer experiences.  She prides herself on being an all rounder who can just as easily communicate IT requirements as speak to customers to understand their moments of truth. She holds...

D.R. Maurice is a fintech and central bank technical expert with over 25 years’ experience for both the US Federal Reserve Bank as a banking supervisor and as an international investment banker in New York, San Francisco and London. After three years as residence advisor in a North African Central...

The World Economic Forum named Darlene Menzies one of six top Female Technology Entrepreneurs in Africa for 2017. She is a technology innovator and serial entrepreneur with 15 years’ corporate ICT experience in the banking sector. Darlene is the founder of Finfind, South Africa’s leading online SME ...

Tshepo is the Founder and CEO of StokFella (Pty) Ltd. A Fintech solution that is aimed to revolutionise a 19th century practice into a modern and tech savvy sector that allows more than 8.5million South Africans to participate in the economy of the country. Tshepo has 7 years experience in the...

Llew the Founder of ProsperiProp and CTO of DreamBlock.com. He is a creative technologist and successful fractional property investment entrepreneur. He is known on the global stage as a blockchain evangelist - an engaging, exiting tech speaker. Llew comes from a strong Fintech background having...

In her doctoral studies, this business strategy expert on entry strategies into African markets examined strategies used by South African companies as they internationalise into other African countries. As the Head of Strategy & Rest of Africa in Nedbank Wealth, South Africa, she spearheads the ...

Francis Chanda Mumbi is a business and finance professional with over 13 years industry experience covering Financial and Management Accounting, Investment and Portfolio Management, Investment Banking and Venture Capital, Credit Risk Management, Data Analytics, Product and Process...

Vijay is a versatile IT professional who has worked across a variety of different industries. He has consulted for two of the leading South African banks and worked as a technical consultant for the financial and mining sector. He has provided strategic IT guidance within the public sector and...

Dushen is the Managing Executive of the Absa Insurance Group, responsible for South Africa and the rest of Africa operations. Dushen’s experience spans corporate and retail banking and life and short-term insurance. His previous engagements include being the Head of Emerging Markets at Discovery...

Roselyn Najjuma Thabit is an experienced banker with 15 years of experience. She has a diverse skill set and knowledge base of the financial services industry spanning from IT, Credit, product development and customer journeys’ agile innovation.She holds a Bachelors of Science (Hons) in Physics and ...

Hartnell is one of the first Chief Data Officers in the East Africa Region. His speciality is in the Banking and Financial Services sector where he has been able to master the development and execution of key Data Strategies for large banks and financial institutions. He was previously the Head of...

Lisa is researcher and business strategist with a passion for financial empowerment. Prior to joining Stellar Lisa was a business development volunteer with the Peace Corps (Mauritania ’07-’09), led operations and partnerships for a portfolio of research studies at the Centre for Microfinance...

As the Deputy Director for Oversight and Policy Research in the Payments and Settlement Systems Department at the Bank of Namibia (the Bank), Candy plays a key role in providing policy guidance to stakeholders of the National Payment System, as well as developing regulatory frameworks that have a...

Phiwa Nkambule is a South African technology entrepreneur with 6 years’ experience in tech entrepreneurship, innovation management, software development and financial regulation. He has a proven track record in the global technology ecosystem having worked with various startups around the world and ...

Jeanine has extensive business knowledge and has worked across Africa. With a career starting as a Math, Science and Technology high school teacher for mentally challenged children, through gold, platinum and coal mining then making her way through consulting and ending up in the financial...

Dickson holds a degree in Information Engineering at Covenant University. Moving forward afterward to the prestigious Nankai University of China where he obtained his Masters in International Business.He went on to start his tech-business career, creating Lixon mobile, a low-cost mobile phone for...

Abongile Nzelenzele the “Velvet Voiced Entrepreneur” is The MD of Nzelenzele Communications, a motivational speaker, an avid sales consultant who has spent years in the corporate world working in sales and marketing and a radio talk show host.Hailing from Cofimvaba in the village of Mkhukhwini in...

Siobhain is currently the Head of Analytics for Investec Private Bank South Africa. As such, she manages analytics as a shared service activity and serves as a cross-functional strategist, collaborating across the management and executive teams to help shape coherent strategies and plans across all ...

Johnson holds a Bachelors Business Administration and He has ten years in banking experience , having worked in business Development, project management and Innovation functions. He is also among the pioneer of Agency Banking in Kenya and started Electronic payments department for KCB Bank. Verse...

Dave hold a BSc in Computer Science and a BSc (Hons) in Semantic Computing. He is a developer and architect with over two decades in software development in South Africa and Singapore. Dave works as NONA's Chief Technology Officer, designing and implementing the systems we build. Dave also...

Mr. Andrea Ottina is currently the Chief Operations Officer of AccessBank Tanzania and is responsible for the overall areas of banking operations, information technology, marketing and alternative delivery channels. Mr Ottina has more than 8 years of experience across commercial banks, consulting...

Antoine Paillusseau is the CEO and Co-Founder of Finchatbot, a technology solution that enables financial clients to connect with and add immediate value to its' customers. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with experience in Business Strategy, Sales Management and Venture building across both...

Stelios Papadakis is Group Head of Business Technologies (CIO) of African Banking Corporation Holdings (ABCH), overseeing Technology Operations across six subsidiaries in Africa, and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for BancABC Mozambique. Before that, he has held several senior positions across the...

Ms. Lulu Rasebotsa holds a BSc Honours in Maths & Statistics from the University of Kent; she also has a COP in Life Insurance and an ICiBS, both from the Insurance Institute of South Africa.She was appointed as Managing Director for Liberty Life Botswana in June 2011. She has over 20 years of...

Nic is the CEO of BrandsEye  SA.  He cut his teeth in ad-land working at Ogilvy in South Africa and the UK. He then went on to be part of the founding leadership team that built and sold an African digital agency group (Quirk) to WPP. Today, he is helping grow BrandsEye into a global opinion mining ...

I am an experienced implementer of digital change in organizations, with a strategic and tactical view on digital solutions (proprietary or bespoke), ideation, product design, planning and execution…all underpinned by the core principles of human centered design. Whilst the majority of my...

Debra has over 15-years international experience working for global technology brands. She currently holds the role of Chief Commercial Officer for Xago, a fintech start-up. She previously worked for brands such as SAP in New York & Europe, & Fundamo, a Visa Company, in Africa, and most...

Dr. Yudhvir Seetharam is currently employed as the Head of Analytics, Insights and Research at FNB Business. His department oversees quantitative and qualitative analytics that spans across research (market analysis, industry analysis and company analysis), analytics and reporting for sales and...

Kreaan has been involved in the cryptocurrency & blockchain industry since 2013. He is the co-founder of Blockstarters, SA's first blockchain hub and business incubator, and CoinEd, the education arm of Blockstarters.By profession, Kreaan is a mechanical engineering graduate, but decided to ...

-Jason spent 2 years in banking in Sydney Australia before returning to SA. Jason was involved with the Transunion Group for 10 years -Started First Asset Finance in 2012, funding movable assets in medical, engineering and other niche industries in SA. 51% of FAF was recently sold to Retail...

Melissa Slaymaker, Founder and CEO of Exec Finder, has over 12 years of International recruitment experience working in Technology and more specifically within FinTech, connecting exceptional talent, Executives and Technology Leaders to opportunities locally and Internationally.Melissa is...

Brad Smith: Co-founder & Actuary, JaSureBrad is an actuary with a Business Science Honours degree cum laude in Actuarial Science,Statistics and Computer Science, and a Business Science Masters degree in the applications of machine learning techniques to risk management.His early career focused...

Nkazi Sokhulu is the Co-founder & CEO of Yalu; a life insurance company that’s focused on reshaping the way South Africans engage with the biggest, but least understood form of insurance: credit life. Yalu brings a number of first time innovations to the credit life market and is seeing a great ...

Michal was in the teaching profession for nearly 6 years, before being head hunted to join one of the leading incubators in South Africa. For two years he oversaw the screening and selection of all the entrepreneurs, across all the industries and sectors. He personally interviewed, worked...

Guy Taylor is a full-stack data scientist with a strong focus on contribution to business innovation and driving behavior change. Having established a substantial portfolio of accomplishments in start-up and entrepreneurial ventures, Guy has assumed the role of Head of Data & Data-Driven...

Dr Carl Thomen holds a PhD in technology research, and is the ex-Head of Digital at Old Mutual Finance. Coming from a lecturing and research background, Carl got involved in digital marketing and engagement, working on the agency side and freelancing for clients all over the world prior to joining...

Dr. Tsanis is leading the Innovation and Data arm of WEMA Bank Plc, the oldest indigenous bank of Nigeria, that has among others launched the first digital bank of West Africa, Alat. Simultaneously, he holds Academic roles on Finance and Strategy at the University of Edinburgh Business School, and...

Marnus is from Johannesburg, South Africa.He studied a unique degree allowing a student to obtain both the (accounting) and LLB (law) degrees within 5 years time. Currently there are just over 200 persons holding this degree.At university he co-founded a bursary fund that awards around R500k per...

Highly experienced and accomplished executive with passion for innovation: •FinTechs, partnerships, market and business development •Agile transformation in a complex environment  •Product innovation and market positioning •Designing and delivering profitable distribution models •Digital...

Mikhail VELICHKO, the Chief Executive Officer of AccèsBanque Madagascar, has been working for AccessHolding since February 2016. Holding a Master’s degree in Banking from the Odessa National Economic University, he has over seventeen years of experience in banking and investment industry. Prior to...

As Head of Technology, Ruan Wannenburg leads an award-winning team for the RMB International division. He is key in driving innovative solutions for the African subsidiaries, from inception through to operationalisation. His extensive knowledge of the banking industry coupled with the years of...

Luke began his entrepreneurial journey at the age of six, selling products door-door in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. He holds an Honours degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town. Luke is a problem solver and systems thinker, with strong influential relationships and a ...

Chris is responsible for driving the growth and evolution of M-Pesa – Africa’s biggest payments platform – across Vodacom Group’s footprint.Chris has over 15 years’ experience spanning telecoms, technology and financial services – predominantly in African markets - and previously worked with the...