Claudia Masemola, our Investment Analyst, participated in the ANDE South Africa Impact Investing Roundtable. Heather Jackson, CFA, Head of Special Credit, Ashburton Investments and Janice Johnston, Investment Head, Edge Growth; shared their insights on the challenges impact investors face developing viable pipelines, how understanding the PE landscape allows impact investors to exit effectively and the value of PPPs in driving...
Bobby Patel, Senior Associate, was Guest of Honour at the 2018 Speech Day of his alma mater, St. Andrews School, Turi. During his speech, he advised his fellow Turians that grades and schooling are just one part of their life. The other part is using the skills they were taught to successfully tackle lifes challenges.
Yesterday, Frederik Benzel, Principal at CrossBoundary Group, sat on the Farming to Feed the Future Pitch Fest Panel at The Mandela Washington Fellowship Conference. Six entrepreneurs from across the continent pitched their ideas on how to farm to feed the future for potential funding.
Today, Lucy Shaw, Associate, was on a panel on Innovation and Technology Development, at the Low Carbon Energy for Development Network 7th Annual Conference. She discussed the Mini-Grid Innovation Lab, Sub-Saharan Africa's first R&D facility, focusing exclusively on testing business model innovation in the sector.
Today, CrossBoundary in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, officially launched the Mini-Grid Innovation Lab. The Lab, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, is the first R&D Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa that focuses exclusively on testing business model innovations in the mini-grid sector - to provide more power, to more people, at less cost.
Melekot Abate, Head of Advisory East Africa and Kathleen Jean-Pierre, Associate, hosted members of the London Business School's Emerging Markets Club at our Nairobi Offices.
Partner Tom Flahive and Associate Abdoulaye Toure published an article with Brookings Institution on "Why French should become the new lingua franca of Africa private equity." Flahive and Toure discuss how French West Africa is emerging as an "attractive destination for private equity investors on the continent."