Allan Green is a seasoned entrepreneur and technology investor for over 20+ years. He has transformed numerous companies in his capacity of advisor, investor and board member, including industry leaders like Gemalto and Ingenico.

Peter de Caluwe is the Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Thunes. Under his leadership Thunes has transformed into a world leading fintech that powers payments for the world’s fastest-growing businesses. Peter drives Thunes through rapid business and geographical expansion, challenging the status quo for cross border payments.Previously he was CEO Payments at Naspers and also Ogone (now Ingenico ePayments).

Sergi Herrero is currently serving as Board Member of MerchantE, an end-to-end payment platform that processes +$20B/year and provides full stack ecommerce services to SMEs. He is also a Member of the Supervisory Board of Intix, a rapidly growing company that provides real time actionable transaction data for banks and securities houses around the world.

‍Mr. Herrero previously served as Group co-Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Supervisory Board of VEON, a global telecommunications holding with +200M subscribers and traded in NASDAQ and Euronext. Before that, Mr. Herrero served as Global Director of Payments and Commerce Partnerships at Facebook, where he helped to build and expand Facebook’s successful payments and commerce business. Previous to that, Mr. Herrero held senior executive positions at the financial services company Square and the French bank BNP-Paribas.

Mr. Herrero holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Telecommunication Management both from Ramon Llull University in Barcelona. He also completed a program in Angel Investing and Venture Capital at Stanford University.  

Sunil Sabharwal has spent over two decades as a board member and C-suite executive for global companies like GE Capital, First Data Corporation, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Coopers and Lybrand. He has also invested in and worked with leading global fintech corporations such as European payment services company Ogone (now part of Ingenico), Paysafe and IRIS Analytics.

Nicholas Smalle is a Partner at Apis. He has been with Apis for 6 years and has led on transactions spanning Insurance, Asset Management and Payments. Prior to joining Apis, he was at Old Mutual where he was responsible for OM’s Strategic Investment Fund, an on-balance sheet investment vehicle that focused on the expansion of Old Mutual’s operations into key African markets. Preceding that he was at Standard Chartered and McKinsey and Company.

Nic has completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) postgraduate degree at INSEAD, and is also graduate of the University of Cambridge with a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in the field of Bioscience.

Rotimi Oyekanmi has over 33 years’ experience in Financial Services, private equity investing, M&A; advisory, and senior management with leading institutions in Africa.

Prior to joining Apis, he was Chairman of RenMoney until 2016, Group Head, Ecobank Capital Nigeria until 2013, CEO of Renaissance Group West Africa and MD of Renaissance Partners (Private Equity arm of Renaissance Group).

Rotimi was with African Capital Alliance (ACA) for 18 years, where he served as Chief Investment Officer. He was also responsible for establishing the SME Fund for ACA in 2001 and was CEO of the Fund from inception, as well as being a Principal in Capital Alliance Private Equity Fund (Nigeria’s first structured fund).

Rotimi lives in Lagos, Nigeria and enjoys providing business advice to financial institutions and other businesses.