Since 2021, he has been a partner at Atdomoc, a family office with a focus on establishing and overseeing regulated and unregulated investment entities in Luxembourg. Previously, between 2014 and 2020, he was a Partner at Savile Capital, which provides asset management, brokerage, futures and investment banking services to discerning individuals and institutions. Prior to this, he was a Senior Manager at Deloitte and Natixis, both within the Private Wealth division, where he implemented solutions for high net worth individuals and investment and holding companies. He holds a Master's degree in Corporate Finance from the University of Lyon and a Bachelor's degree in History, Economics and Sociology from Science Po Lyon.
David is a co-founder of Atdomco, a family office focused on the creation and management of regulated and unregulated investment vehicles in Luxembourg, specialising in real estate, private equity and corporate transactions with an international investor base. At the same time, he holds positions as an independent director in various specialised investment funds throughout Luxembourg. Prior to founding Atdomco, he was Secretary General of SMART Private Managers from 2012 to 2015, an independent discretionary portfolio management company with a value investment approach managing the assets of more than 200 families, after having worked as Head of Business Development at the Carey Group from 2010 to 2011. He graduated from INSEAD's MBA programme in 2010. He also holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of Liège.
Michael is an experienced senior manager and independent director with a wide range of experience in the investment fund industry. He is currently a Conducting Officer at the IRE AIFM Hub where he oversees the risk management, valuation, compliance, and delegate supervision functions. In parallel, he holds partner positions in Estari Lotus SCSp, an investment fund pursuing a private equity strategy, Innovation Nest II SCSp and Market One Capital SCSp, both investment funds pursuing a venture capital strategy, making equity, quasi-equity and equity-related investments primarily in European companies developing or otherwise active in information and telecommunications technologies. Previously, he worked for EY Luxembourg as a Senior Auditor specialising in asset management, mainly auditing the financial statements of UCITS, AIFs and their management companies. He holds a master’s degree in management engineering with a major in Finance from the Louvain School of Management.
Philip is currently the CEO of Frontclear. Prior to establishing Frontclear in 2015, Philip was Vice President at The Currency Exchange Fund which he joined in 2008. From 2004 to 2008 Philip was an Investment Officer at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Prior to DBSA, Philip worked at the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He holds a Master in International Business from Maastricht University and is FRM certified. In 2014 Philip completed Harvard Business School’s comprehensive leadership program, the Program for Leadership Development.
Dr. Martin Kimmig is the Chief Risk Officer at the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). His main responsibilities are to ensure the stability and financial continuity of the Bank. He oversees capital allocation and utilization, manages financial and non-financial risks, including reputational consequences, as well as fosters a strong risk culture throughout the Bank. He joined the AIIB from The Rock Creek Group where he held the position of a Managing Director covering emerging market equities. Previously, he spent a 24-year career at the World Bank Group, primarily in the International Finance Corporation (IFC) where he held leadership positions in both investment operations and risk management. Martin Kimmig holds a PhD in economics from the University of Freiburg and a CFA designation. He joined the ALCB Fund’s Investment Committee as an Observer in 2018.
Janice Kotut-Sang is a founding member of Sustainable Links, which aims to mobilise capital towards Climate solutions with a gender lens. Janice was previously Managing Director, PIDG Infrasolutions, which was set up as a GuarantCo initiative to be a pathfinder, arranger and collaborator aimed at mainstreaming local currency finance for infrastructure projects in frontier markets, improving the affordability of infrastructure projects and developing local capital markets in lower income countries across Africa and Asia. She brings with her banking experience with Standard Chartered where she worked in Asia, UK and in Kenya with a varied number of roles in business strategy and origination. Janice has also spent four years running a floriculture operation in Kenya. Janice has a LLB from Warwick University and a LLM from King’s College London and an Executive MBA with the Said Business School, Oxford University.
Clemens is CEO and a founding partner of Lion’s Head Group. He splits his time between Nairobi and London. Clemens is responsible for the implementation of Lion’s Head’s overall strategy and chairs the Firm’s Operating Committee. Over the past 10 years Clemens has been involved in advisory activities across a number of sectors, including financial services, renewable energy and agriculture and he was instrumental in setting up Lion’s Head Asset Management. Prior to setting up Lion’s Head, Clemens spent 13 years in investment banking, first at Morgan Stanley and then at Goldman Sachs. He worked in London, Singapore and New York, doing M&A before focusing on the energy sector where he was responsible for executing a number of large structured and commodity-backed financings. Clemens holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau.
Enrico Nora is the Group Chief Financial Officer and joined Lion's Head in September 2022. His previous positions include: CFO of Maris Africa Group, Executive Director of Mobile Banking at Equity Bank (Kenya) and CFO of Intertouch Group (a division of NTT DOCOMO of Japan) based in Singapore. Prior to that, he spent eleven years with Hewlett Packard in Europe and APAC regions. Enrico holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, and an MBA (with honours) from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
In addition to his role as a member of the Advisory Committee, Michael Groot joined Amsterdam-based Cardano Development in 2019 as a Senior Project Director. In this role, he is currently dedicated as a Senior Advisor to the ILX Fund, with primary responsibility for sourcing, analysing and executing transactions for the fund's portfolio. He started his banking career in 1993 with Deutsche Bank in Amsterdam and London. He then joined the Africa team at FMO in 1998 and was seconded to Standard Bank's Emerging Market Infrastructure Fund in London from 2002 to 2005. Back at FMO, he spent two years focusing on China before spending five years leading the desk that originates, structures and executes all structured finance transactions within FMO with a view to developing FMO's capital markets activities in emerging markets. Prior to joining Cardano Development, he worked for seven years as a Senior Investments Officer in FMO's Private Equity department with a focus on Africa.
His professional experience focuses on facilitating impact investments on the African continent, with a focus on working with infrastructure companies. In his current position as Senior Portfolio Manager at KfW Bankengruppe, where he is responsible for several impact investments in debt/private equity funds in sub-Saharan Africa, and through his membership of advisory and investment committees, he has gained a solid understanding of the responsibilities of the advisory role. His previous position as Senior Advisor to BMZ strengthens his ability to engage with the fund management team on the impact objectives that underpin the Ministry's role as an equity investor in ALCBF.
Anne-Marie is CIO of FSD Africa Investments, the investment arm of FSD Africa. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of FSD Mozambique and co-founder of Alitheia IDF Managers, a private equity fund manager investing in women-owned businesses. Anne-Marie has a wealth of experience in building African financial markets. Throughout her career, she has led a range of development finance investments and implemented private sector growth strategies in roles at the World Bank Group, CGAP and UK Aid, among other development finance institutions. She has held board and advisory positions with leading inclusive finance organisations in Africa.
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