Mr. Daryl Berg

Managing Director BPC Africa Banking Technologies South Africa

Daryl brings 20 years of executive experience in the IT and financial services industries. Prior to joining BPC, he was responsible for establishing the international e-Payment business for the Cornastone Group, a South African systems integration and professional services company. At BPC Daryl is responsible for leading the company’s continued expansion in Africa.

Mr. Chris Ellinas

Region Solution Director Payment and Mobile Solutions Middle East Africa NCR Corporation

Chris Ellinas is the Region Solution Director for NCR Payment and Mobile solutions for Middle East and Africa, having the overall responsibility and managing the operations and sales initiatives for the whole Middle East and Africa region. He has been with NCR Payment Solutions for more than 15 years and has been heavily involved in the implementations of nationwide cheque truncation and ACH systems in Nigeria, Ghana, Libya, and Cyprus as well as in cheque processing systems with the major banks in the Middle East and Africa. He successfully managed to introduce new NCR technologies in many African countries helping

NCR becoming a leading technology provider of Payment and Mobile solutions in the region.Throughout his career in NCR he also had the overall responsibility for the implementation of Payment Solutions projects in different banks throughout the area. He has spent quite a lot of time traveling in different countries in the Middle East and Africa for implementing and managing projects as well as consulting banks on Payment Solutions and in particular on image-based cheque processing and electronic fund transfer systems.

He is a graduate of Central Connecticut State University holding a BSc in Management Information Systems. He continued his studies at the Frank G. Zarb School of Business at Hofstra University in New York, where he received his MBA specializing in Business Computer Information Systems.Chris is based at the NCR Middle East & Africa Area Head Office in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Mr. Mohammad Amin Hasbini

Senior Security Researcher - Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT) Kaspersky Lab - Russia

Mohammad-Amin Joined Kaspersky Lab in 2013 and was appointed Senior Security Researcher in the company’s Global Research & Analysis Team.Prior to joining Kasperksy Lab, Mohammad was a Senior Information Security and Privacy Consultant at Deloitte & Touche Middle East and before that a Security Network Engineer at DataConsult Lebanon.

He also taught multiple official Information Security courses, like EcCouncil Certified Ethical Hacker and Cisco CCNA Security.Mohammad-Amin is specialized in Cyber threats, Penetration testing, Malware landscape and Unix based open source systems and tools.Mohammad-Amin has a Professional Masters degree in Telecommunications Security of Networks and Systems (Saint-Joseph University, Beirut), also has different certifications from ECCOUNCIL(LPT,CEI…), CISCO(CCSP…), RSA(CSE), Harvard Business Publishing(HME, HLE) and British Standards Institution (ISO 27k LI)

Mr. Charles Watathi

Senior Security Consultant, Cyber Security Africa

Lead Security Consultant at Cyber Security Africa Group. He has 9 years of progressively responsible and diversified experience in Information Security and Management.Active in the IT and Information Security sphere conducting security assesments,penetration tests,computer forensics and assurance.

Delivered consultancy and Training for some of the largest private and public players in the Eastern African Region. Highly specialized and focused on Penetration Testing as well as able to perform both general white and black box audits.

Mr. Niladri Sekhar Roy

Manager Business Development Craft Silicon Limited

Niladri has over 12 years of experience in Sales and Marketing and worked extensively for Software Organizations specialized in Banking, Microfinance, SACCOS and other financial institutes in Asia, Africa and Europe.

He specializes in strategic marketing, customer acquisition, business development and consulting for ICT, software organizations.

His area of interest is Microfinance, Mobile Banking, Self Service Automation and other Channel Solutions.

Mr. Gezahegn Dugassa Leta

Director, Banking Products and Technology Innovation Awash International Bank S.C Ethiopia

Gezahegn Dugassa Leta is a senior Electrical Engineer with a progressive and professional experience of more than fifteen years in Information Technology and Telecom. His core expertise spans Enterprise Information systems Security, IT Project Managements and Delivery, Infrastructure Solutions mainly for the Banking Sector.

Gezahegn has been with CBE for five years (as an Employee), Zemen Bank (as a Consultant for two years) , as an ICT Project Manager with Bunna Bank for two years and currently with Awash Bank as a Director of Banking Products and Technology Innovation. His Telecom domain engagement includes the current Ethio –Telecom, Huawei Technologies, AT&T, New Jersey where he had led infrastructure projects mainly for the Security components of the Project as a Team lead and Project Coordinator.

Gezahegn is also passionate in delivery of advanced Technical trainings in Information System Security; has also been teaching official MS Curriculums that leads to Certification and various college courses for the last 15 years (Information Systems Security and Network Security) at HiLCoE, Micro Link, the Postgraduate school of Ethio Telecom and ITSC. His certifications include CISSP, CCNA, MCSE.

Mr. Avinash Ramtohul

Leader Technology Pre Sales, Oracle Africa

Avinash Ramtohul has 17 years working experience in the IT industry in Africa including 8 years with Oracle in Middle East and Africa. He is presently the Leader for Technology Consulting leading teams across Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast and South Africa.Mr. Ramtohul holds an MBA, MSc and BSc from University of Mauritius, University of Bristol, UK and University of Pune, India, respectively. Currently, he is concluding his Doctoral report in E-Government. Mr. Ramtohul is Chartered Manager and Chartered IT Professional with the Chartered Management Institute, UK and Chartered Institute for IT.

Mr. Ramtohul has various academic publications and has presented several research papers in International Conferences, including IEEE, covering e-security, e-learning and e-government.

Mr. Kamel KAOUECH

Independent Consultant

Kamel KAOUECH is an Independent Consultant specialized in Digital Banking & Mobile Payment Strategy & Consulting. Kamel is PRINCE2 Practitioner Project Manager who managed and conducted various transformation projects related to Broadband Access, Next Generation Networks, Mobile Payment, Mobile Banking Applications and Centralization of National Electronic Payment Systems. Kamel participated in various ICT and Digital Banking events and conferences both during his academic research and professional experience.

For more than 10 years, he held senior positions in the telecommunication industry where he dealt with telecom operators, fixed and mobile. Kamel has MSc Engineering in Telecommunications and Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration from the OU Business School in UK.

Mr. Felix Mulei

ICT Consultant, Eclectics International Ltd, Kenya

Felix Mulei is an experienced Information and Communication Technology(ICT) Specialist with over seventeen(17) years post Masters Degree in Computer Science working experience. He has implemented core banking systems in fifteen(15) banks in several countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Ghana and Zimbabwe. He is an experienced ICT consultant and has helped banks develop best practice procedures and controls for their ICT function. He is the Head of Business Development at Eclectics International.

Mr. Genner Cheng

Solution Director of Mobile Money Solution, Huawei Technologies

Has 13 years experience in Telecom & IT industry, as solution director of Huawei Mobile Money, expertise in Mobile Money business strategy, consulting, events speaking engagements, solution Design and Sales. Under his leadership, Huawei Mobile Money solution has been chosen by VDF group as sole strategic vendor to deploy M-PESA G2 platform which includes the Safaricom M-PESA G2 project in Kenya as the biggest M-PESA site in VDF.

Mr. Mustapha HABLI

Deputy General Manager - In charge of business development in Africa M2M Group Morrocco.

20 year experience in management of e-banking projects supplied for prestigious institutions worldwide.

Mr. Eli Menashe

Regional Sales Manager for AfricaCheckmarx, Israel

Global responsibility for Sales focusing on carriers sales, channels development business development sales into end user, consultant and Systems Integrators (SI's).

Over 19 years experience as strategic Sales/Pre-Sales Manager in Service Provider Market and consultant in the IP networking, Security and policy management field. - Extensive experience in high-tech companies. - Technical account/project management in carriers (Tier-1/2), mobile operators and large ISPs - Extensive international experience

Job description (Senior Product Sales Expert, Service Provider Market): Responsible for large and strategic Service Provider/Carrier projects; answering RFQs, including all technical and marketing information, BOM; technical and marketing presentations at customer sites and follow-up until project agreement is signed and order placed.

Angela Ng'ang’a

Corporate Affairs Lead East and Southern Africa & Indian Ocean Islands Microsoft Corporation.

In her role, Ms. Nganga collaborates closely with government ministries, regulators and policy makers in the region to constantly keep up to date and participate in the transformation of the policy environment in the rapidly changing ICT world. She is a seasoned communications professional with over 15 years’ experience in developing and managing Corporate PR for various Pan African and multinational organizations.

Angela has strong competencies in government relations, advocacy and lobbying, strategic communications and public policy gathered through an expansive career in the health, telecommunication and ICT sectors. Prior to joining Microsoft Corporation Angela served as the Chief Corporate Communications Officer for Telkom Kenya – Orange.

Mr. Alex Mathenge

Regional Manager NetGuardians Switzerland

Alex has more than 20 years in the IT Industry. In the past 7 years, Alex has focused on Information Security and anti-Fraud methods with specific attention on how to combat the vice in the financial Industry. Alex has been involved in implementing anti fraud solution for top tier banks in the Kenya. His expertise includes evaluating current fraud trends in the region and developing controls to help in discovery them early.

Alex is currently the Regional Manager at NetGuardians, a global leader in technology that uses behavioral analysis for operational risk control. Prior to joining NetGuardians, Alex was the founding partner at Africa Conor LTD. His expertise and influence have made him a recognized leader in combating Fraud in the East African Region.

Alex has received a Bachelors of Science with honors from Bridgewater University in Massachusets (BSc Hons.) and a Masters in Information Technology with a concentration in Security (MSc Hons.) from Keller Graduate School in Atlanta.