Speakers
Jon Kornik
Principal
Google’s Energy Access and Investments
Nicholas M. Bassey
Division Chief, Frontier Partnerships,
USAID GlobalDevelopment Lab
Ade Freeman
World Bank, Lead Specialist,Trade and Competitiveness, (T&C), Global Practice
Leigh Moran
Senior Officer, Strategic Initiatives
Calvert Foundation
Yohannes Assefa, Esq.
Director, Stalwart Management Consultancy PL
Managing Director, Pioneer International Legal Consulting
Amini Kajunju
President & CEO, The Africa-America Institute
Atreya Rayaprolu
Executive Director -New Initiatives & Africa
Romi Bhatia
Sr. Investment Officer
Team Lead
USAID Development Credit Authority
Dr. Musimbi Kanyoro
President and CEO of Global Fund for Women
Eric-Vincent Guichard
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Homestrings.
Prof. Liesl Riddle
Associate Professor of International Business and International Affairs
George Washington University School of Business
Amadou Daffe
CEO\Co-Founder
Coders4Africa Inc
Dr. Jackie Copeland-Carson
COO Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County (CCSCC)
Banny Banerjee
Professor of the Practice at Stanford’s School of Environment
Energy, and Earth Sciences, and Director of Stanford ChangeLabs
Gabe Tzeghai Ph.D
Chief Executive Officer,
Summit Innovation Labs
Jo Addy
New Initiatives Lead, IDEO.org
John Kohler
Executive Fellow and Director, Impact Capital Program
Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship
Santa Clara University
Yara Akkari
Project Coordinator,
Arc Finance
Kwame L. Dougan
Managing Partner
iYa Ventures
Harnet Bokrezion, PhD
Founder of africajumpstart.com
Tralance Addy
Chief Executive of Plebys Int’l LLC
Scott B. Ticknor
Deputy Director of Economic & Regional Affairs
Africa Bureau,
Department of State
Moez R. Virani
CFO, COO, Northgate
Fernando Sepulveda
Founder and CEO of Impulsa
Hugh Molotsi
Advisor & Investor, Startups
Heather Grady
Vice President at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Alex
Dixon
Director of Aspen’s Diaspora Investment Alliance (DIA)
Ashit
Patel
Director of Software Development, Citrix
Murali Krishnamurthy
Co-Founder, Executive Chairman Sankara Eye Foundation, USA
Farouk Sheikh
Chief Executive Officer
Investec
Eric M.K Osiakwan
Managing Partner
Chanzo Capital
Neal Hansch
Managing Director, MEST
Maya Horgan
Founder and Executive Director
of Ingressive
Toro Orero
Managing Partner, DraperDarkFlow
Kevin Njabo
Adjunct Assistant Professor University of California Los Angeles
Grant Harris
CEO, Harris Africa Partners LLC
Raymond U. Guthrie
Principal on the Innovation Investment team at the Skoll Foundation
Ben
White @zia505
coFounder & Community Evangelist
Mbwana
Alliy
Managing Partner, Savannah Fund
Jitendra Singh
Chief Manager Economics at Reserve Bank of Fiji
Nmachi Jidenma
Global Platform Partnerships Facebook
Deborah Holmes
Chief of Staff
Global Fund for Women
Sara Yousefnejad Gallagher
Program Officer IDEA