2014 Conference

Amyn Mussa is a Partner at ALN Kenya |Anjarwalla & Khanna (A&K). He heads the firm’s Projects and Infrastructure department and co-heads ALN’s Energy and Infrastructure Sector Group. Under Amyn’s leadership, A&K has developed a dynamic projects and energy practice and is regularly engaged on the most significant power and infrastructure projects in Kenya and the region. Amyn is the only lawyer in Kenya ranked in Band 1 in the Projects and Energy category by Chambers Global in 2018. Amyn’s clients include Mota-Engil Engenharia E Construҫao Africa, Globeleq, Orascom Construction, Egis Projects, Quantum Power, General Electric, Ormat, the sponsors of the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, Transcentury, Symbion Power, IFC, AIIM, Mitsui, Toyota Tsusho and Google.

Asif Abdulla started Primefuels as the sole employee in 1996. After graduation he worked in UK for Deloitte and later for Shell companies. In 1999, he moved with his family to Nairobi to grow Primefuels which currently operates in 5 countries in East & Central Africa with over 600 employees. Since 2006, he has lived in Dubai from where he manages the business.

Carlo is one of the Founders and Director of Lake Turkana Wind Power Project which aims to provide 310MW of reliable, low cost wind power to the Kenya national grid, equivalent to approximately 15% of the current installed electricity generating capacity. It comprises of 365 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 850kW, and a high voltage substation that will be connected to the national grid through an associated transmission line currently being constructed by the Kenyan Government. Carlo has investments in Kenya in various sectors, including banking, manufacturing, and project management and development.

He has previously worked in various capacities for the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Program, and as director for Africa at Fata European Group, an industrial engineering company based in Turin, Italy. He is fluent in English, Italian, Dutch and French.

Mr G. Jayakrishnan directs Enterprise Singapore’s strategy to develop and strengthen Singapore’s trade and investment linkages with the Middle East, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. Based in Singapore, he leads the Group’s operations in Singapore, Accra, Dubai, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Nairobi, Riyadh and Sao Paulo. Enterprise Singapore is the government agency championing enterprise development and also supports the growth of Singapore as a hub for global trading and startups. Jaya serves as member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for African Studies in Singapore.

In 2015, he was awarded the Public Administration Bronze Medal by the Government of Singapore. He holds a Master’s degree in International Public Policy from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours from the National University of Singapore.

His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan is the Minister of Tolerance in the new Cabinet announced in October 2017.

His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak joined the Federal Government in 1992 and held a number of government portfolios including Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Minister of Education and Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development.

His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak was also Chancellor of United Arab Emirates University from 1983 to 2013; Chancellor of Higher Colleges of Technology from 1988 to 2013; and President of Zayed University from 1998 to 2013.

His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan received his education at the British Millfield School until the high secondary level before joining Magdalen College at Oxford University-UK.

Kapil is a Director within Standard Chartered’s Middle East & Africa Real Estate team. He is responsible for driving the banks Real Estate franchise expansion across Africa, having written the strategy post joining the Bank in 2011.

Kapil started his career with KPMG Corporate Finance in London, where he was part of the Real Estate M&A advisory team. He subsequently joined an Abu Dhabi based Private Equity fund, where he was responsible for the structuring and executing Real Estate Funds.

Kapil is a graduate of the Cass Business School, London, where he attained a degree in Banking & International Finance.

Karim S. Anjarwalla is the Managing Partner of ALN Kenya | Anjarwalla & Khanna (A&K) and a member of the firm’s Corporate department. He is consistently involved in the most prominent M&A transactions in the region, and has a wide array of experience advising domestic, regional and international clients on M&A, joint ventures and private equity investments.

Under Karim’s leadership, A&K founded and has been a key driver of ALN. Karim is regularly an invited expert at various international legal and business forums. He is rated as a Leading Lawyer by Chambers Global, IFLR1000 and Legal 500.

Mohamed Amersi is CEO and co-founder of Emergent Telecom Ventures, a Dubai based Emerging Markets Consulting, Advisory and Asset Management firm specialising in Telecoms, Media & Technology. Prior to co-founding Emergent Telecom Ventures, Mr. Amersi ran Gramercy Communications Partners, a communications merchant bank, based in the United States that he co-founded with Telefonica.

Nabeel has 18 years of banking experience (both conventional and Shari’a compliant) covering corporate banking, project finance, private equity and Investment Banking. Nabeel transacted across many sectors such as utilities, chemicals, oil & gas, retail in the GCC, the Emerging Markets; & Europe.

Nabeel started his career as a process engineer at the BAPCO refinery in Bahrain. Nabeel has Masters of Engineering in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London and ACCA Diploma in Finance & Accounting.

Osman Qureshi is the Chief Finance Officer at Mubadala Infrastructure Partners Ltd. He specialises in investment banking and private equity. He also has M&A and financing experience focused on infrastructure, utilities, power and industrials.

Paul is the CEO of Catalyst Principal Partners. He has over 20 years of management consulting, entrepreneurial, investment banking and private equity experience. He has managed a significant and diverse regional investment portfolio and led several high profile merger and acquisition transactions across Africa.

Roddy is a director in the corporate group at Anjarwalla & Khanna. He has over 30 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures and other corporate transactional work. He was previously a partner at Hogan Lovells in London and Hong Kong. Prior to joining Anjarwalla & Khanna in 2013, Roddy headed up Webber Wentzel’s Africa Group and was based in Johannesburg for over 6 years, where he had overall responsibility for developing the firm’s practice on the African Continent (outside South Africa).

Roddy’s practice is pan-African and over the last ten years has been involved in investments and transactional deals in over thirty African countries. His experience in working in emerging markets in Africa and Asia has positioned him well to understand how to successfully conclude deals in challenging environments.