BUILDING AFRICA'S DIGITAL ECONOMY
BUILDING AFRICA'S DIGITAL ECONOMY
BUILDING AFRICA'S DIGITAL ECONOMY
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HEAR FROM THE WHO’S<br />
WHO OF AFRICA’S EMERGING<br />
<strong>DIGITAL</strong> ECOSYSTEM...<br />
O<br />
OPERATORS & CARRIERS<br />
Tom Allen<br />
Group COO<br />
Smile Telecoms<br />
Ntombizodwa Chinyenze<br />
Customer Operations Director<br />
Telecel, Zimbabwe<br />
Philippe Goabga<br />
Director of Regulation<br />
Telecel Faso<br />
Thierry Millet<br />
Head of Contactless Payment<br />
France Telecom Group<br />
Nic Rudnick<br />
CEO<br />
Liquid Telecom<br />
Johan Taute<br />
Manager – Financial Services<br />
and Security, Vodacom SA<br />
Richard Bell<br />
Group CEO, Wananchi Group<br />
Holdings Ltd<br />
Rodney Benn<br />
Regional VP Africa<br />
Eutelsat<br />
Arnauld Blondet<br />
VP marketing products Africa<br />
& Middle East, Orange<br />
Kebba Bojang<br />
Snr. Manager Customer<br />
service, Gamcel<br />
James Byaruhanga<br />
Chief Operations Officer<br />
Roke Telkom<br />
Uganda<br />
Mats Carrgard<br />
Chief Commercial Officer<br />
Virgin Mobile, South Africa<br />
Irene Charnley<br />
Group CEO<br />
Smile Telecoms<br />
Léon-Charles Ciss<br />
Head of Marketing AMEA<br />
Orange<br />
Moussa Dao<br />
Director of Orange Money<br />
Orange Botswana<br />
Jose Dos Santos<br />
Chief Commercial Officer<br />
Cell C<br />
Mutaz Elbadawi<br />
CTIO, Expresso Telecom<br />
Senegal<br />
Stephen Essien<br />
Head Customer and User<br />
Experience, Vodafone<br />
Matthew Wilsher<br />
CCO<br />
Etisalat Nigeria<br />
Miguel Geraldes<br />
Managing Director<br />
MTC, Namibia<br />
Fungai Mandiveyi, General<br />
Manager - Customer Services,<br />
Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe<br />
Deon Geyser<br />
Chief Operating Officer<br />
Millicom International<br />
Cellular (Tigo), Tanzania<br />
Hashim Hasabelrasoul<br />
Hashim<br />
Chief Technology Officer<br />
Canar Telecom, Sudan<br />
Jose Henriques<br />
Vice-President: Data and<br />
Online, Airtel Africa<br />
Bjørn Iversen<br />
CEO<br />
Telenor Global Services<br />
Dion Jerling<br />
CEO<br />
Connect Africa<br />
Romeo Kumalo<br />
COO Int’l Business<br />
Vodacom Group<br />
Essa Al Haddad<br />
Group CEO for Africa<br />
Etisalat Group<br />
Laurence Le Ny<br />
Director of Music and Cultural<br />
Partnerships, Orange<br />
Grant Marais<br />
RVP, Africa Sales<br />
Intelsat<br />
Mandla Msimang<br />
Regulatory Advisor<br />
Smile Communications<br />
Mamutse Munyaradzi<br />
VAS & Mobile Content<br />
Telecel Zimbabwe<br />
Nkosinathi Ncube<br />
Mobile Financial Services<br />
Director<br />
Telecel Zimbabwe<br />
Cyrille Nibigira<br />
General Manager -<br />
Business Development<br />
Econet Wireless Burundi<br />
Sunil Joshi<br />
CEO<br />
Neotel<br />
Adedipo Olagbegi<br />
Head IT Technical<br />
Infrastructure<br />
Etisalat, Nigeria<br />
Marc Rennard<br />
EVP, Africa, Middle East & Asia<br />
Orange<br />
Yves Ruggeri<br />
Chairman Management<br />
Committee<br />
ACE Consortium & Orange<br />
Osi Russell<br />
Chief Technical & Information<br />
Officer<br />
Millicom Tanzania (TIGO)<br />
Dr. Marten Scheffer<br />
GM of Network Engineering<br />
Neotel<br />
South Africa<br />
Tshepo Selokela<br />
Cell C<br />
Banding Sillah<br />
Chief Financial Officer<br />
Gamtel, Gambia<br />
Craig L. Smith<br />
Senior Information Systems<br />
Manager<br />
MTN<br />
Miguel Angelo Soares<br />
Chief Marketing Officer<br />
Unitel, Angola<br />
Wilgon Berthold Tsibo<br />
CTIO<br />
Equateur Telecom Congo<br />
Jurgen Urbanski<br />
Chief Technologist Big Data<br />
and Cloud<br />
Deutsche Telekom Group<br />
Jannie Van Zyl<br />
Executive Head: Consumer<br />
Data, Vodacom SA<br />
Thibaud Weick<br />
Group CCO<br />
Smile Telecoms<br />
Patrick Ananyi<br />
Founder & director<br />
Tizeti Network Limited<br />
Bjorn Flormann<br />
Chief Executive:<br />
Wholesale Business, Cell C<br />
Zunaid Bulbulia<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
MTN SA<br />
Pieter Verkade<br />
Group Chief Commercial<br />
Officer, MTN<br />
M<br />
MEDIA, OTT & CONTENT BRANDS<br />
Jason Bigler<br />
Director, Product<br />
Management<br />
Google, USA<br />
Nicola D’Elia<br />
Growth Manager Africa<br />
facebook<br />
Tomisin Fashina<br />
CEO<br />
Yookos<br />
Marc Herson<br />
Director<br />
2go<br />
John Karanja<br />
Founder<br />
Whive, Kenya<br />
Miles Keylock<br />
Editor-in-Chief<br />
Rolling Stone<br />
Magazine<br />
Rick Fant<br />
VP of Apps and<br />
Marketplace, Mozilla<br />
Yoel Kennan<br />
Founder and CEO<br />
AfriCori<br />
Vincent Lagoeyte<br />
Founding Member<br />
Africa Culture<br />
Technologies (ACT)<br />
Keith Lindsay<br />
Managing Producer<br />
TSV<br />
Brett Lindsay<br />
Director & Production<br />
Consultant, Big Brave<br />
Productions<br />
Vincent Maher<br />
Chief Marketing Officer<br />
Mxit<br />
Lulama Mokhobo<br />
Group CEO<br />
SABC<br />
Michael Ugwu<br />
CEO<br />
iRoking<br />
Neil Schwartzman<br />
CEO<br />
Spinlet Group<br />
Bradley Shaw<br />
Head of Business<br />
Development - Southern<br />
Africa, Spinlet<br />
Brett St Clair<br />
Head of New Products<br />
Sub Sahara<br />
Google, South Africa<br />
Ike Orizu, Founder &<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
TruSpot<br />
Axel Bringéus<br />
Head of New Markets<br />
Spotify<br />
Cédric Diedrich<br />
Head of Telecom<br />
Business Development<br />
Deezer<br />
Attila Narin, EMEA Sr.<br />
Manager for Solutions<br />
Architecture, Amazon<br />
Web Services (AWS)<br />
V<br />
VENDORS & SUPPLIERS<br />
Sven Beckman<br />
GM South and Sub-Saharan Africa<br />
(SSSA), Intel<br />
Gary Buchwald<br />
CCO<br />
Intersec<br />
Domenico Convertino<br />
Head of OSS Europe<br />
Middle East and Africa, HP<br />
Laurent Cruchant<br />
President EMEA<br />
RFS<br />
Mark Davis<br />
Sr. Director Product Marketing for<br />
Service Provider Platforms, Citrix<br />
Andres de Orleans-Borbon<br />
Chief Financial Officer<br />
Helios Towers<br />
Jabulani Dhliwayo<br />
Market Development Manager<br />
EMEA, Corning Optical Fibre<br />
Johan de Lange<br />
Executive Vice President: Enterprise<br />
and AfricaClickatell<br />
Steven Glapa<br />
Senior Director - Field Marketing<br />
Ruckus Wireless<br />
Paul Gracie<br />
SVP for Worldwide Sales<br />
Procera<br />
Chuck Green<br />
CEO<br />
Helios Towers<br />
Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou<br />
Senior Vice President Commercial<br />
Africa, SES<br />
Wei Leping<br />
Independent Non-Executive Director<br />
China Communications Services<br />
Corporation Limited and Chairman<br />
Science and Technology Advisory<br />
Committee, China<br />
Telecommunications Corporation<br />
Atul Madan<br />
Vice President – Mobile Lifestyle<br />
Solution, Mahindra Comviva<br />
Arun Nagar<br />
CEO & Managing Director<br />
Spice Africa<br />
Wolfgang Petersen<br />
Director of Developer Relation Division<br />
(DRD) for Europe, Middle East and<br />
Africa (EMEA), Intel<br />
Deepak Sachdeva<br />
Sales director – Russia & MEA<br />
MoreMagic Solutions (Oberthur<br />
Technologies)<br />
Fredrik Jejdling<br />
Head Region Sub-Saharan Africa<br />
Ericsson<br />
Malin Ridelius<br />
Director of Product Management<br />
Giesecke & Devrient<br />
Yariv Geller<br />
VP Marketing, Strategy and Planning<br />
Comverse<br />
Johan de Lange<br />
Executive Vice President: Enterprise<br />
and Africa, Clickatell<br />
Daniel Jaeger<br />
Vice-President for Africa<br />
Alcatel-Lucent<br />
Shaheryar Zameer<br />
Head of Telecommunication Solutions<br />
CIS, Middle East & Africa, Gemalto<br />
Howard Charney<br />
Senior Vice President, Office of the<br />
President, Cisco<br />
Alain Biston<br />
President Wireless EMEA<br />
Alcatel-Lucent<br />
I<br />
INVESTORS & INCUBATORS<br />
Al Banda<br />
Community Manager<br />
ActivSpaces,<br />
Cameroon<br />
Mathieu Molinero<br />
International Area<br />
Manager<br />
Deezer<br />
John Causey<br />
Clifftop Colony<br />
Capital Partners<br />
Marc Elias<br />
Founder & CEO<br />
Seed Engine<br />
South Africa<br />
Jesse Green<br />
Entrepreneur, Founder<br />
of Perk, Managing<br />
Director<br />
UbuntuDeal.co.za<br />
Hilda Moraa<br />
Senior Researcher<br />
iHub, Kenya<br />
Andile Ngcaba<br />
Founder and Chairman<br />
Convergence<br />
Partners<br />
Karim Sy<br />
Chief Catalyst<br />
Jokko Labs<br />
Senegal<br />
Brad Shorkend<br />
Founder, URBAN<br />
EVEREST Lateral<br />
Thinking<br />
& Partner, Seed<br />
Engine<br />
Barbara Birungi<br />
E. director<br />
Colab, Uganda<br />
Budzanani Tacheba<br />
Director Cluster<br />
Development<br />
Botswana<br />
Innovation Hub<br />
Craig Ross<br />
Innovations Manager<br />
Reconstructed<br />
Living Lab - RLabs<br />
Lukonga Lindunda<br />
Co-Founder and Director<br />
BongoHive, Zambia<br />
Claude Migisha K.<br />
General Manager<br />
kLab, Rwanda<br />
Manuel Koser<br />
Founding Partner<br />
Silvertree Capital<br />
B<br />
BANKS AND FINANCIAL ORGANISATIONS<br />
Dominique Collett<br />
Head of Strategic Partnerships<br />
TYME Capital, South Africa<br />
Sean Paavo Krepp<br />
Country Director Uganda<br />
Grameen Foundation<br />
Patrick Maina<br />
CEO<br />
Crowdpesa, Kenya<br />
Yolande van Wyk<br />
CEO – e-Wallet<br />
FNB, South Africa<br />
Eric Edelstein<br />
CEO<br />
ZunguZ, South Africa<br />
Gavin Krugel<br />
Chief Customer Strategy Officer<br />
Fundamo<br />
Dave Parratt<br />
CCO<br />
Oltio, South Africa<br />
Brian Richardson<br />
CEO<br />
WIZZIT, South Africa<br />
A<br />
ANALYSTS & TECH EXPERTS<br />
Kim Andersen<br />
Principal Advisory<br />
CxO Advisors & Ovum<br />
Bonin Bough<br />
VP of Global Media &<br />
Consumer Engagement,<br />
Mondeléz International<br />
(Kraft), USA<br />
Declan Byrne<br />
President<br />
WiMAX Forum<br />
Guillermo Escofet<br />
Senior Analyst<br />
Informa Telecoms &<br />
Media<br />
Tom Jackson<br />
Managing Editor<br />
Human IPO<br />
Nick Jotsichky<br />
Principal Analyst<br />
Informa Telecoms &<br />
Media<br />
Camille Mendler<br />
Principal Analyst<br />
Informa Telecoms &<br />
Media<br />
Mark Newman<br />
Chief Research Officer<br />
Informa Telecoms &<br />
Media<br />
Matt Reed<br />
Principal Analyst<br />
Informa Telecoms &<br />
Media<br />
Sadiq Malik<br />
Principal Consultant<br />
Broadband Gurus<br />
Steven Ambrose<br />
CEO<br />
Strategy Worx<br />
Richard Walton<br />
Mobile Monday<br />
E<br />
ENTERPRISE, CLOUD & BIG DATA SPECIALISTS<br />
Theo Bensch<br />
Managing Executive, Telkom<br />
Cybernest<br />
Telkom South Africa<br />
Vuyani Jarana<br />
Head of Enterprise Business<br />
Vodacom Group<br />
Adrian Cornelius<br />
General Manager-Security<br />
MTN Business<br />
Shahar Steiff<br />
AVP - Business Operations<br />
PCCW<br />
Evans Nyagah<br />
Head of Enterprise Sales &<br />
B2B<br />
Safaricom<br />
Ferdie Lochner<br />
Head: IT Finance & Innovation<br />
Lead, City of Cape Town<br />
Simon Spurr<br />
Chief Operating Officer<br />
FOLUP Inc.<br />
Kevin Vachon<br />
COO<br />
Metro Ethernet Forum<br />
Steven Kirenga<br />
Business Solutions Manager<br />
MTN Uganda<br />
Mark Wigington<br />
Vice President,<br />
Group Cloud Services<br />
Orange<br />
Nicolaas Coetzee<br />
IT Security Specialist<br />
First National Bank<br />
Abid Qadiri<br />
Chief of Business Solutions<br />
and Excellence<br />
Neotel<br />
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