“I am a Leading the Angola Cables Finance department. I have more that 10 years in the finance area, with large experience in payment process and restructure the finance departme.

All over the year I have being developing the ways to pay and to balance the company treasury, by optimizing the process and always working in a proactive way to prevent any future situation.

I have a doble degree in Finance and managment, and also a Master in Strategy of Investment and Internationalization by ISG- Business School in Lisbon.”

With a passion for aviation, Shafina holds a master’s degree in international Air Transport Operations and Management from Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile. In her current role as Banking Manager overseeing the EMEA & the Americas region at IATA (International Air Transport Association). She is responsible for crafting meticulous RFPs, orchestrating SLAs, and spearheading seamless KYC implementation ensuring the financial landscape aligns seamlessly with the aviation industry’s demands. Managing daily transactions in the millions, she brings a wealth of experience to the table, providing unparalleled cash management expertise.

Chigbo Enenmo is a seasoned finance professional with over 20 years of experience covering accounting and financial reporting, auditing, treasury management, planning and budgeting, finance operations, and business/project finance management.

Chigbo holds a first-class Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from University of Nigeria; a Master of Science degree in Environmental and Resource Economics from University College London; and an MBA from Imperial College London. He is also a Chartered Accountant, with professional qualifications from ICAN Nigeria, ACCA UK, and CIMA UK.

He started his career at KPMG as an Auditor  in 2001 before moving to PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2003. He later joined TotalEnergies in 2003, where he worked as a Budget Analyst. In 2006, Chigbo joined Shell, where he has held various roles including Senior Regional Reporting Accountant at Shell EP Africa from 2006 to 2009; Head of Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable at Shell SNEPCO Nigeria from 2009 to 2011; Group Reporting Analyst at Shell Netherlands from 2012 to 2013; and Finance Manager (Wells/Exploration) and Finance Manager (Corporate) at Shell SPDC Nigeria between 2013 to 2019.

He was appointed Treasury Manager NLNG in 2019 at Nigeria LNG Limited as a secondee from Shell. He holds this position to date.

Chigbo is a two-time winner of the Treasury Today Adam Smith Award (2020 and 2022) for leading and delivering world-class business improvement projects.

Bert Heirbaut is the Group Treasury Front Office Manager at IHG Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hotel companies with a diverse portfolio of 19 brands from midscale hotel brands such as Holiday Inn Express, Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza up to luxury brands such as InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Regent and Six Senses.

Bert joined IHG in 2004 and is now responsible for the front office operations with a team of 4. The team responsibilities range from the core treasury function such as trading foreign exchange, investments and interest risk management as well as the strategic overview for global cash management in the 100 jurisdiction IHG is operating its brand portfolio of over 6300 hotels.  The team implemented a global payment hub and is now fully up and running on Kyriba making payments via their corporate SWIFT code from more than 40 different banks globally.

Royston Da Costa has over 34 years’ experience working in treasury. He joined Wolseley, now Ferguson Group, in April 2002, and was responsible for managing the group’s daily debt and cash requirements.

In 2010, Royston was given the responsibility for driving the automation of Treasury’s processes at Ferguson, which led to the implementation of their current treasury management system in 2015, a cloud-based solution by Coupa.

He was promoted to assistant group treasurer in November 2016, and was made responsible for the middle office, and in November 2019 assumed responsibility for the Front Office. He continues to drive forward the group’s strategy on treasury technology.

Today, Ferguson use 13 cloud based solutions and most of their processes are automated.

Royston previously worked at Sky, Gillette, PolyGram, Seagram, and Vivendi Universal.

Ferguson won the 2020 BELLIN (now part of Coupa) Champions Award for “Best Practice”.

Royston also won the Adam Smith award on behalf of Ferguson for the “Best Cyber-Security Solution” in 2019.

Ferguson won the Corporate Recognition Award for “Future proofing Treasury” at the 2018 TMI Awards for Innovation and Excellence.

At the beginning of my professional  career, I held different positions at Planning, Controlling and  Operations departments. I am currently Group Treasury Director at MAXAM.

As Group Treasurer, and member of the Corporate Financial team, I am involved in the negotiation and allocation of the main Corporate Debt, in the origination or renewal of LT & ST financing facilities, covering Parent Company and subsidiaries’ funding needs, as well as trade financing, derivative & risks management, and cash management solutions together with Bank relationship management. My team also covers the management of the cash position of the subsidiaries and centralizes the back office for Spanish and some other European subsidiaries´ payments. We have undergone efficiency improvement projects (interface automation, RPAs, global communication project, among others)

I hold an Economics and Business Degree by ICADE, an MBA at IDE, PDD by ESADE, and have taken different Treasury and Capital Markets specialization courses at IEB.

Motasim Iqbal is the Managing Director & Head of Transaction Banking Sales, Corporate Commercial & Institutional Banking for Standard Chartered Bank in the AME region since August 2020. In this role he is responsible for running the sales team covering Cash Management and Trade Finance products in the region. He is also a member of the Standard Chartered Bank UAE Country Management Team.

Before taking on his current role, Motasim was the Head for Transaction Banking Sales for Global Banking clients in the United Arab Emirates and AME region and prior to that during 2017-19 he was the Head of Transaction Banking in the UAE. Previously he has worked with the Bank in Singapore as head of TB for Singapore, where he worked very closely with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on positioning Singapore as a premier Renminbi clearing market outside China.

Motasim joined the Wholesale Banking business at Standard Chartered in Oct 1997 and was appointed the Head of Transaction Banking for Pakistan in 2003. In 2006, he moved to Dubai to head the Financial Institutions segment within Transaction Banking across MENA & Pakistan. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, Motasim began his career as an Assistant Manager in the Treasury Division of Shell Pakistan Limited.

Motasim holds an MBA degree from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, with majors in Banking & Finance. He has also attended various leadership programs including Leading Across Boundaries at Oxford Said Business School, Business Leadership Planning course of the Nottingham Trent University and a senior level executive course at INSEAD Singapore. Motasim spent his childhood in Tanzania, East Africa and his early schooling in the International School of Tanganyika (IST) in Dar es Salaam.

Razia is Head of Research, Africa and Middle East, with over two decades of experience covering emerging and frontier markets. She is a well-known commentator on the region and provides regular updates to central banks, finance ministries, institutional investors and corporates in the region. She currently serves as a Trustee of the Royal Africa Society and Save the Children UK, and has been appointed to serve on the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC) established by the presidency of  the Republic of South Africa. She has previously served on the WEF’s Global Future Council on Migration and the Global Agenda Council on ‘Poverty and Economic Development’. She was named one of the ‘100 most influential Africans’ in 2015 by New African magazine, and one of ‘100 Africa economics leaders’ by Institut Choiseul (2017). Razia holds BSc and MSc (Econ) degrees from the London School of Economics.

Benedict Craven has been at the helm of EIU’s coverage for Africa and the Middle East for nine years, with a wealth of expertise straddling politics, the financial landscape and economics. He leads EIU’s analysis on financial risk, and through his insights helps clients to better navigate the region’s most complex economies and prepare for market-moving events on the horizon. He has delivered presentations to a wide range of corporate audiences. His specialisms include currency trends, debt sustainability, the balance-of payments and the interplay between economic policy and investment. Benedict’s analysis is frequently cited in local and international media and he has featured on television and radio numerous times for different outlets. Benedict has a Graduate Diploma in economics from Birkbeck, a Masters in International Development from SOAS and is close to completing a Masters in Applied Economics at the University of  Bath.

Simon has over 30 years of experience in finance, treasury and transaction banking across both developed and emerging markets. Simon was previously Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank and lead the client management, product & marketing teams at the UK’s first cloud based infrastructure clearing bank.

Prior to joining ClearBank in 2019, Simon spent over 20 years at JPMorgan. During his time at the bank, he was responsible for treasury solutions in EMEA, supporting clients around the world. He was also Head of Corporate Sales in EMEA from 2012 to 2015 and Asia Regional Executive for Treasury Services from 2006 to 2010, based in Hong Kong.

Simon is actively involved in UK FinTech as a Mentor for TechStars Accelerator programme.