Chirayu Gandhi

Chirayu is an Associate Partner, Digital Business Builder and Fintech Leader for McKinsey in Africa. He specializes in building new digital businesses and innovative products in the banking sector. He has extensive experience and deep expertise in a wide range of digital banking topics (neo-banks, lending, payments, embedded finance, and crypto-banking). He serves and advises

Gugu Newman Nyathi

Gugu is the Founder of Ribbon Protocol, a Web3 health financing & information system platform.

Jonathan Ovadia

Jon is a serial entrepreneur and technology enthusiast that impressed at a very young age. At 16 Ovadia started a private hedge fund leveraging CFD’s with a focus on the fast growing technology consultancy firms. The same year Ovadia built LottoPool, an online lottery club allowing users to pool their funds in order to increase

Carel de Jager

Carel de Jager is a blockchain expert, engineer, and thought leader in cryptocurrency and financial innovation. As the Founder and CEO of SilverSixpence, a Pretoria-based blockchain engineering firm, he leads a team specializing in cutting-edge solutions for cryptocurrency trading, technical compliance, exchange solvency audits, and proof-of-reserves for major exchanges like Binance, Crypto.com, KuCoin, and Luno.

Dr. Caroline Maslo

Matthew Higginson

Matt is part of McKinsey’s leadership team for Financial Services and Risk Practices and is the partner lead for McKinsey Values in Boston. He leads our work in collections in North America and is a member of the firm’s global operating committee in collections. Matt’s experience covers financial-service clients in North America, Central America, the

Mr. Issa Mohamad Soormally

Mr Soormally is a fellow Director of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (MIoD) and has also occupied the post of Deputy Governor of Central Bank of Mauritius. As a seasoned commercial banker and regulator, he has held various positions within local and international organizations. He has a strong proven track record in International banking in

Paula Buchel

Paula is the Africa Payments leader for Deloitte, based in Johannesburg. She is an Associate Director, responsible for the financial services strategy consulting offering within Monitor Deloitte. Paula’s career started in the banking industry with Investec Bank, focused on investment management and the rapidly growing linked products sector. After an MBA she moved into strategy

Carel van Wyk

Carel is an accomplished engineer and entrepreneur who excels at leveraging cutting-edge technologies, like blockchain, to bring innovative products to market. He was an early contributor to notable companies such as SnapScan and one of South Africa’s largest crypto exchanges, Luno. His latest venture, MoneyBadger, simplifies and secures the process for merchants to offer crypto