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Awards 2021

Tanya van Lill

CEO, SAVCA

Tanya joined SAVCA in March 2017, after a rewarding 10-year career at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) with her last role being Director of Academic Programmes where she also served on the board of the Executive MBA Council (EMBAC), an international academic association that represents the Executive MBA industry.

Tanya is passionate about human and organisational development. During her time as a learning and development specialist focusing on management and leadership development, Tanya gained valuable experience working with various companies across a wide range of sectors. She holds an MBA and Post-Graduate Diploma from GIBS where her MBA research focused on methods to develop a global mindset. Tanya also holds a BCom Informatics and Honours in Business Management from UNISA.

Tanya is also passionate about developing the private equity and venture capital sector in Southern Africa. Through personal experiences, Tanya understands the complexities entrepreneurs face during the various stages of their business lifecycle and is a regular contributor at various events to help entrepreneurs, and investors, understand the value and impact of private equity and venture capital. Tanya is the mother of a stunning young man, a motorbike/car enthusiast and a South African PowerLifter.

Tim Staermose

CEO, ST Funds Management

Tim Staermose is CEO of ST Funds Management Limited, the Investment Manager of the African Lions Fund, a boutique long-only investment fund investing in companies in sub-Saharan Africa ex-South Africa.

Tim started the fund in 2020, after a career spanning more than 25 years in the Emerging Markets in Asia, where he worked for many years in sell-side equity research, and for several independent equity research firms.

He has also been an advisor and manager of funds for several high net individuals and family offices for more than a decade.

Today he is based in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, one of the few African frontier markets fund managers, living full-time in a frothier African economy.

Dr Daniel Broby

Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Accounting and Finance, University of Strathclyde Glasgow

Dr Broby is a leading academic in the field of Financial Technology (Fintech). He has a PhD in Accounting and Finance from Strathclyde University, an MPhil in Economics from Brunel University and an MSc in Investment Analysis from Stirling University. His research interests focus on distributed technologies, market operational efficiency and novel financial innovations and business models. He is one of the world’s most recognised experts on index construction. He wrote ‘A Guide to Index Construction’ for Risk Books, described in a review as “a comprehensive academic treatise on the subject. His research is extending the literature within the finance discipline to incorporate big data analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. As director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation, he is focused on updating the curriculum in taught finance to incorporate Financial Technology. He has helped develop Financial Technology to cluster status at Strathclyde University. He is enabling financial technology knowledge exchange from academia to industry.

In his professional career, prior to academia, he was a successful investor in emerging and growth markets. He held several ‘C’ level positions in leading asset management firms. The investment performance of the funds he managed was recognised by Morningstar (with their highest five-star rating). He has served on several financial industry task forces, committees and policy councils.

Roxanne Ryan Alozie

MD for Business Development, DFC

Roxanne Ryan Alozie is the Managing Director for Business Development for the Chief Development Office of the US International Development Finance Corporation. She leads business development operational activities, strategic analysis, and product innovation. Prior to working at the US International Development Finance Corporation, Roxanne worked for over 10 years in strategy, operations and research at Gartner ( formerly Corporate Executive Board) International Finance Corporation, and AT Kearney. Moreover, she spent the first ten years of her career working in financial services on Wall Street, both as an underwriter and in marketing strategy. Roxanne received her MBA from University of Michigan, and an MS from the London School of Economics and BS from Cornell University.

Tamer El-Raghy

MD, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund

Tamer El-Raghy is the Managing Director of the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF); a $58m impact fund and the world’s first equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. Tamer has more than 20 years of private equity, venture capital, M&A, entrepreneurial, and innovation experience in Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Europe.

Prior to joining ARAF, Tamer was with responsAbility AG as head of Agri&Food PE Fund in Africa where he co-led the structuring, due diligence, and closing of transactions that impacted 35,000 smallholder farmers. Before responsAbility AG, he led Cargill’s growth strategy and M&A activities in Africa with a focus on animal nutrition, animal protein, and commodities value chains in Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Zambia, and Ghana, impacting 50,000 smallholders.

Tamer started his career as a materials engineer, where he co-invented a new class of materials, held nine patents, and founded 3-ONE-2 LLC, as a joint venture, commercializing the technology for both civilian and defense applications. Tamer earned an MBA from the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business , a PhD in Materials Engineering from Drexel University, and a BSc in Metallurgical Engineering from Cairo University.

Abhimanyu Yadav

Head of Fixed Income & Currencies, MCB Investment Management

Abhimanyu heads fixed income and currencies at MCB Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of the MCB Group, a leading financial institution in Mauritius. He is an investment professional with a broad skill set including portfolio management, trading, quantitative analysis and risk management in both the asset and liability sides of the asset management business. He joined MCB IM in May 2015, and prior to that was a portfolio manager at MEAG New York Corporation, where he managed and traded the $22bn credit portion (US$ IG/HY/EM, CDX/CDS and C$ IG) of the firm’s $40bn AUM.

Khaled Saba

Senior Country Advisor - Egypt, Mediterrania Capital Partners

Over 25 years of international executive experience and a wide network in multiple industries across Egypt, the GCC, South Asia and Europe.

- Track record in executing high profile capital markets and M&A transactions and in leading the business development, restructuring, operations and value creation efforts of medium sized and multinational ventures.

- Previously headed Investment Banking at Beltone Financial, Strategy & Commercial at Orascom Telecom and Research at EFG-Hermes.

- Held several board seats in Telecoms, Healthcare, Pharma, Tourism and Chemicals.

- BA in Economics and an MBA in Marketing and Int’l Business from the American University in Cairo.