Geoffrey White, CEO of Agility Africa, is an expert on infrastructure development, retail supply chains, agri-business, and investment for African markets. Agility, a leading global provider of logistics and related infrastructure solutions for the oil and gas and FMCG markets, has over $5.2 billion in revenue, 24,000+ employees, and offices in more than 100 countries. Mr White is a member of the Agility Strategic Advisory Board.

Greg is a founder member of Grit Real Estate Income Group and has been instrumental in sustaining its rapid growth since inception in 2014. As Founder of Grit, Greg recognised the significant demand from multinational companies looking for quality real estate solutions in Africa and the limited supply of experienced developers to fulfil their requirements. This led to the creation of Gateway Delta Development Holdings Ltd as a development company of which Greg is a co-founder.

Paula Armstrong is a Director at FTI Consulting and is based in Cape Town, South Africa. She is in the Economics and Financial Consulting segment. Her work focuses on South Africa’s policy and regulatory framework, with a special interest in healthcare policy.

Chiedza Madzima is the Global Head of Operational Risk Research and leads the South Africa Research team at Fitch Solutions, a Fitch Group company. Her areas of specialisation are in business environment analysis, policy risk and macro analysis focussing on Emerging Markets.

Virusha is a partner and head of Indirect Tax in Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice Group in Johannesburg. She has over 20 years of experience in tax issues relating to customs and excise and international trade.

Nisrin is the Head of Africa Group within Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe; she has a 15 year banking experience in covering African markets, responsible for originating and structuring financing solutions, for sovereigns, DFIs, corporates, Central and Commercial banks across the African continent (Exc RSA).

Ambassador Kirk is a highly experienced international risk strategist and negotiator of complex multinational issues. Additionally, he has experience in cybersecurity, political risk, regulatory issues and reputation risk, as well as external communications, sustainable business and corporate philanthropy.

GardaWorld are the largest privately held security company in the work with over 35,000 people in Africa providing vertically integrated services to the extractives sector. Colin works with many leading companies in the extractives sector and was formerly the Global Head of Security for the DeBeers Family of Companies, Chief Security Advisor at Rio Tinto Diamonds, Director at Control Risks and the President of Constellis.

Adaobi Nnorukah is the Chief Operating Officer at Genesis Energy Group. At Genesis, Adaobi is responsible for ensuring that the company can identify and take advantage of the strategic expansion opportunities that best leverage the company’s hard worn experience and competencies in the energy industry.

With more than 20 years of professional experience, Hatim Ben Ahmed started his career as a financial auditor for the accounting firm Arthur Andersen in Paris and later joined Accuracy, a corporate finance advisory firm, where he was exposed to a wide range of financial processes including due diligence and company valuations, principally for large corporations in various industries (retail, IT services, waste management, real estate, transportation, etc.).

Koosum Kalyan is a South African Businesswoman. Her first employment was as an economist for the Electricity Commission in Melbourne, Australia for two years. After that she was senior economist at the Chamber of Mines in South Africa.

Brian is currently Vice President: Group Security and Human Rights (Group Sustainability) for AngloGold Ashanti, one of the world’s leading gold mining companies, a position he has held since 2009.

Sabrine Hassen is an associate managing director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Risk Advisory practice in London.

Alphamin operates the worlds highest grade tin mining resource in North Kivu Province, DRC. Richard has an extensive career in extractives including as the Managing Director of Alphamin in the DRC, as the Extractives Industry Technical Advisor to USAID in DRC and as the Social Manager for Freeport - McMoRan in DRC.

Mark was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Barrick effective January 1, 2019, following the completion of the merger with Randgold Resources.

Henk de Hoop holds an MSc in Mining Engineering from the University of Delft, Netherlands, and he is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Michael Rawlinson has over 25 years experience in mining finance as research analyst, corporate financier, investor and non executive Director.

Patrick has been Editor-in-Chief of The Africa Report since 2005, a monthly African politics and business magazine of Jeune Afrique Media Group.

Shirley Webber is the Managing Principal, Coverage Head Natural Resources and Energy. She was previously the Sector Director of Mining, Resources and Commodities at FirstRand Bank.

Jamie MacDonald is a director in the Finance & Projects team at DLA Piper South Africa.