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Africa Business Forum3rd May 2018 | JSE Auditorium

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Donna M. NemerDirector Capital Markets & Group Strategy

Donna joined the JSE in August 2014 as Director of Capital Markets. In this capacity she is responsible for all primary and secondary market activity across all asset classes. This includes the sourcing of new debt and equity primary issues, the development and on-going management of all secondary market trading in cash and derivative markets (Equities, Bonds, Interest Rates, Commodities and Currencies). She also oversees the JSE wide Group Strategy, as well as New Product and Market Development.

Prior to that, Donna spent 30 years at Citibank. She joined the firm in New York in 1985 as part of the Country Debt Restructuring Unit and followed on to occupy positions in NY as the head of the Treasury Marketing Unit; in Sao Paulo Brazil as the head of derivatives in the treasury, and lastly moved to South Africa in 1995 where Donna held several senior positions such as Head of Strategic Planning and Direct Equity Investments, Africa Division; Head of Strategic Planning and Public Affairs, Sub-Saharan Africa; Chief Operating Officer, Africa Division; and her last position of Managing Director, Chief Country Officer of Citi South Africa.

Donna graduated cum laude from Duke University in 1978 and holds a Master of Arts Degree from Georgetown University (1982), majoring in Latin American Studies and Economics. She is dedicated to community service and for many years sat on the boards of Junior Achievement Southern Africa, Operation Hope Africa and Conservation South Africa. She also served as the President of the American Chamber of Commerce from 2011-2013, was the Chairperson of the International Banking Association of South Africa and was a board member of the South African Banking Association.

Prejelin NagganHead of Primary MarketsCapital Markets

Prejelin Naggan is Head of Primary Markets in the Capital Markets division of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). His role entails leading teams that drive new listings by local and international issuers across all the JSE markets. This includes focusing in particular on new equity and debt listings and related products such as ETFs (Exchange Traded Funds), warrants and hybrid instruments.

Before joining the JSE, Prejelin was with J.P. Morgan Chase Bank for almost 8 years where he worked initially as the bank’s M&A and ECM lawyer, then as a client coverage banker within the Investment Banking division advising client in different industries on M&A and ECM transactions. Before leaving J.P. Morgan, Prejelin was the Sub-Saharan Investment Banking Business Manager supporting the development and implementation of the firm’s Investment Banking strategy.

Prior to J.P. Morgan, Prejelin worked as a corporate finance executive at Java Capital (2005 to 2008) where he advised several clients on, among other things, listing on the JSE. He began his career at Werksmans Incorporated in 2003 as a candidate attorney, before becoming an associate in the commercial department.

Prejelin obtained Master of Laws (LLM) degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2002 and he completed his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree at the same university a year earlier. He has also obtained a certificate in Management Development through the Da Vinci Institute for Technology Management in 2014


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Dr. Josephine NGURE – Deputy Director General, Southern Africa Region | AFDB

Dr. Josephine NGURE is the Deputy Director General (DDG) of the African Development Bank Group’s Southern Africa Region, based in Pretoria, South Africa. The Region comprises 13 countries, namely Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Mauritius, Namibia, Sao Tome & Principe, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. As the DDG, she is the Bank’s Country Manager and official Representative for South Africa. In addition she directly manages the Bank’s operations in the countries in the Region where the Bank currently does not have physical presence.

Dr. NGURE joined the African Development Bank (ADB) 20 years ago and has held various strategic and operational positions during the period. She has worked extensively on both public and private sector operations across all sectors in Africa.Between 2014 and 2016, she served as the Resident Representative for the AfDB in Ethiopia, where she managed a multi-sector operations portfolio of about USD 2 billion.

She also led the Bank’s strategic engagement with the Government and Development Partners and served as the co-Chair of the Development Partners Group during 2015/2016. She oversaw the preparation of the Bank’s Country Strategy for Ethiopia for 2016-2020 and business development activities. As the Bank’s interface with the Africa Union Commission (AUC) and the United National Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), she was actively engaged in the formulation of Agenda 2063 and the organization of the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD) that took place Addis Ababa.

During 2012-13, she was the Lead Advisor to the Bank’s First Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer, where she was involved in the formulation of key Policies and Strategies including the Bank’s Ten Year Strategy (Strategy 2013-2022), the Private Sector Development Policy and Strategy, and the Gender Strategy.

She played an important role in the successful negotiations for the Thirteenth Replenishment of the African Development Fund (ADF-13), leading the preparations and presentations relating to institutional effectiveness, and preparing a roadmap towards greater efficiency, effectiveness and value for money under the Bank’s Ten Year Strategy.

Prior to that, she was the Lead Adviser to the Vice President for Infrastructure, Private Sector and Regional Integration during 2010-2011. In that capacity she was instrumental in the negotiations for the Bank’s Sixth General Capital increase (GCI-VI) which led to the tripling of the Bank’s share capital, the substantial expansion of the Bank’s private sector operations and the review of the Bank’s risk management Framework.

Further, she provided advice and support in the planning and execution of the Bank’s public and private sector activities in the Financial, Industrial, Transport, Energy, and Water & Sanitation sectors, as well as matters related to Regional Integration.

Dr. Ngure holds DPhil and MPhil Degrees from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). She also holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (First Class) from Nairobi University (Kenya) and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA, Kenya).


Mrs. Stella KILONZO – Senior Director, Africa Investment Forum | AFDB

Mrs. Kilonzo, a Kenyan national, has been the Division Manager, Capital Markets Division, since December 2013 when she joined the African development Bank, and has been recently appointed as Senior Director, Africa Investment Forum. She brings into this role seventeen years of rich experience in the financial sector covering development finance, investments structuring to bankability, capital markets, risk management, corporate finance advisory and accounting. As the Manager of the Capital Markets Division at the African Development Bank, she has been responsible for driving innovation in capital markets in Africa to accelerate development. One of her key achievements was her leadership of the Bank’s first ever Partial Credit Guarantee to cover the exchange rate risk on foreign currency borrowing for Cameroon in its first ever Eurobond issuance to finance infrastructure. She also provided leadership on the Bank’s investment projects in private equity funds, including a fund solely run by women asset managers in Africa.

In support of the Bank’s High 5 agenda, Mrs Kilonzo innovated mortgage finance lending operations at the Bank for Improving the Quality of Life of people living in Africa. She has also done good work on the financial sector integration pillar in support of the Bank’s Integrate Africa strategy. To boost liquidity, and the depth of Africa’s capital markets and regional financial integration, she led the Bank’s formal engagement with the Africa Stock Exchange Association. She directed the Bank’s conceptualization and co-funding of the Africa Exchanges Linkages Project, which led to a roadmap study recommending modalities of securities exchange linkages in regional sub- markets. She has also hosted several successful knowledge events.

Prior to joining the African Development Bank, Mrs. Kilonzo held various executive and advisory positions in the financial sector. From 2005 to 2012, she worked at the Capital Markets Authority of Kenya first as Manager, in the Compliance and Market Operations Department, and later as the Chief Executive Officer, responsible for developing and regulating the entire securities and capital markets in Kenya while advising the Government on capital markets and financial policies. She led the expansion of the scope of the Capital Markets Authority’s approval and regulation of vanilla capital markets products comprising debt and equity to more complex, structured products such as commodity and financial derivatives, futures, real estate investment trusts, asset backed securities and Islamic capital markets instruments. Previously, Mrs. Kilonzo worked as Senior Associate, Corporate Finance Advisory Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Kenya between 2004 and 2005, and as Senior Compliance Auditor at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Chicago, in the United States of America from 2000 to 2004. She started her career as an internal Auditor at the GE Capital Subsidiary in Chicago.

Mrs. Kilonzo holds a Master of Business Administration in Corporate Finance from the Loyola University Chicago Graduate School of Business, Illinois, United States of America and a Bachelor of Commerce, Accounting degree from the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. She is also a Chartered Public Accountant (CPA) of the United States of America.


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Mr. Olivier EWECK – Director, Syndication & Technical Services Department | AFDB

Mr. Eweck, is a citizen of Cameroon and has been recently appointed as Director, Syndication and Technical Services Department. Until this appointment he worked as the Manager, Financial Technical Services Division for the African Development Bank since 2009. He brings into this role over 18 years of diversified experience in financial and capital markets, including portfolio management, private sector investment as well as quantitative and derivative expertise. As Principal Financial Analyst and later as Manager of the Financial Technical Service Division, he was responsible for product innovations and development as well as marketing of the Bank’s local currency funding initiatives and client advisory services. He developed competitively priced and innovative financial products (debt and equity) for countries and private sector clients, drafted guidelines and established responsibilities and risk controls for their implementation across the Bank, monitored the Bank's competitiveness and relevance to a variety of clients and made recommendations to Senior Management and the Board on the Bank's pricing policy.

He also identified and originated funding requirements in African currencies, executed funding programs and recommended strategies and instruments for the management of these resources pending their disbursement to projects. Earlier Mr. Eweck worked as a Portfolio Manager between 2006 and 2009, when he managed the Bank’s and affiliates’ fixed-income portfolios (African Development Fund, Nigeria Trust Fund). As an Investment Officer and Private Sector Analyst, he planned, prepared and coordinated preliminary evaluation notes on new projects between 2004 and 2006. Prior to joining the African Development Bank, Mr Eweck worked on Equity Derivative Structuring at Societe Generale – Paris La Defence, France from 2002 to 2004, and as a Wall Street Trader on the ISE, SG COWEN, and New York from 2001 to 2002.

Mr. Eweck holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and General Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France and a Master’s degree in Finance and Economics from Ecole Nationale Des Ponts et Chaussées, Marne La Vallée, France

Ms. Moono MUPOTOLA: Director, Regional Integration | AFDB

Ms. Mupotola is a Zambian national. She has over 20 years of in-depth experience in trade and regional integration across Africa. She joined the Bank in 2009 as Division Manager Regional Integration & Trade and has provided strategic oversight and leadership for the Bank’s trade and regional integration agenda by supporting research, infrastructure projects, capacity building programmes and the reform of regulations and policies. She initiated and established the Bank’s Africa Trade Fund and led the development of the 2014 -2023 Regional Integration strategy. She provided strategic oversight and leadership to key divisions, coordinated and prioritized projects for the African Development Fund, and provided advisory services on trade, investment, regional programs and multinational operations. She represented the Bank at global and African institutions on all matters regarding regional integration, trade, investment and regional infrastructure. She has provided significant expertise in the design of trade & transit facilitation measures in Africa, and technical support to the Africa Union Commission, Regional Economic Communities and Regional Member Countries. She has also helped drive the delivery of strategy, and the creation of results management tools, and knowledge frameworks. She also led inter-organization coordination and resource mobilization while managing a team to generate knowledge for policy changeMs Mupotola earlier worked as Regional Policy Consultant for the Food Agriculture Organization Regional Office in Zimbabwe between 2006 and 2009; Trade Specialist at the SADC Trade Hub in Botswana and Zimbabwe between 2002 and 2004; as a Development Consultant in Zimbabwe from 2004 to 2006, and as Division Head and Chief Agricultural Economist at the Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate of Planning & Policy in Namibia from 1997 to 2002.

Ms. Mupotola holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bennington College, Vermont, United States of America, and a Master of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. She also has post-graduate qualifications in Leadership from the Wharton Business School, United States of America and in Strategic Management from Cranfield Business School, United Kingdom


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Dr. Abdu MUKHTAR: Director, Industry and Trade Development Department | AFDB

Dr. Mukhtar is the Director, Industry and Trade Development Department at the African Development Bank (AfDB), overseeing the implementation of the Bank’s Industrialization Strategy across the Continent, Trade and Investment Climate issues and non-sovereign operations in the ICT, Manufacturing and Services sectors. Prior to that, he was the Group Chief Strategy Officer at Dangote Group of Industries, Nigeria where he assisted the Group President in setting overall strategic direction for the Company and overseeing key aspects of the strategic planning processes for the group, business units, subsidiaries and associated companies.

He played a key role in driving major activities, projects and initiatives of the Company, including expansion of cement manufacturing into 18 African countries, a multi - billion dollar Oil Refinery and Petrochemical Plant, plus key joint ventures in Power, Oil & Gas as well as Agriculture Sectors. Dr. Mukhtar has also worked in Management Consulting, Investment Management, Private Equity and Public Service and has founded a number of entrepreneurial ventures.

Dr. Mukhtar holds a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Ahmadu Bello University School of Medicine – Zaria, Nigeria; A Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the Boston University School of Medicine, USA; a Master in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School and a Master in Public Administration degree from Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He was an Archbishop Tutu Leadership Fellow and the recipient of several international awards

Mr. Wale SHONIBARE: Director - Energy Financial Solutions, Policy and Regulation | AFDB

Wale Shonibare is the Director responsible for Energy Financial Solutions, Policy and Regulation at the African Development Bank.

He has over 25 years’ experience in Debt and Equity Capital Markets, M&A, and Project Finance spanning Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining AfDB, Wale held senior positions at international investment banks in Lagos, Dubai and London.

Wale’s recent experience includes fund raising for investors in power generation assets across Africa, several sub-sovereign and corporate bonds, project finance and M&A transactions across various sectors: Power generation and distribution facilities, upstream oil and gas, CNG and LNG facilities, fertilizer plants, hydropower power projects, toll roads, light and heavy rail, ports, real estate, healthcare, hospitality and specialized economic zones.

Wale holds an MBA from Imperial College, University of London as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from University of Glasgow.


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Ms. Atsuko TODA: Director, Agricultural Finance and Rural Infrastructure Development Department | AFDB

Ms. Atsuko Toda is an experienced manager and expert in the field of rural and agricultural finance, with extensive experience in rural development. She joined the Africa Development Bank from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), where she has worked for close to twenty years on rural development and financing in Asia and Africa.

Since joining IFAD in 1997, Ms. Toda has held several positions in different countries including Bangladesh, Nepal, Laos and Vietnam. She was the Country Director for Nigeria for IFAD, where she has worked since 2012, promoting strong partnerships with Government and other development partners, managing a portfolio of investments in rural development, accelerating the access of farmers to new technologies, finance and markets.

Ms Toda holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, with specialization in multi-cultural societies, from the Doshisha University of Kyoto, Japan; a Diploma in Developmental Studies from Cambridge University, United Kingdom; and a Masters’ Degree in Public Administration, with specialization in rural finance, from the International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan

Lizeka Matshekga - Divisional Executive responsible for the Infrastructure, Agro-processing and Agriculture | IDC

Lizeka Matshekga, is the Divisional Executive responsible for the Infrastructure, Agro-processing and Agriculture and New Industries within the IDC. She brings a wealth of 23 years’ experience within the financial services sector, where she has spent more than half of that within the Development Finance institutions.

She has a Masters in Development Finance from Stellenbosch University, Honours in Commerce from the University of Cape Town and Bachelors in Commerce from the University of Western Cape. She sits on many boards of IDCs investee companies.

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