Kazeem Oladepo
Kazeem Oladepo is the Vice President, IHS Tower. He is an emerging market specialist with over 15 years C-Level experience in business strategy and operations in West Africa’s ICT sector across service verticals (Wholesale, Retail and Enterprise) in the key value segments (Mobile networks and services, Connectivity networks and services and Data Center infrastructure and Value Added Services).
Possess diverse hands-on transaction and operational skills and competence in General Management, Business Development; Commercial (Sales and Marketing); Corporate and Project Finance; Legal, Regulatory, and Compliance; Project Management and Corporate Strategy.
Christopher Taylor
Christopher Taylor is the co-head of Addleshaw Goddard’s Africa Business Group with particular responsibility for East Africa and the SADC region. Experienced in advising on domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and disposals for public and private companies, UK and international clients on their investments and restructurings and cross-border joint ventures with regulatory issues.
Focus on the financial services and retail and consumer sectors following secondments with The Royal Bank of Scotland and Diageo.
He regularly visit East Africa and lecture on issues ranging from cross border transactions to international bribery and corruption legislation. He also oversee the Addleshaw Goddard’s relationships with local law firms across the SADC region focusing on developing stronger local ties so that the firm’s clients benefit from integrated, collaborative relationships and a “one firm” approach to providing legal services. I have a wealth of experience advising clients in Africa on matters including corporate activity, long term supply and route to market arrangements, anti-bribery and corruption protections and utilising international law in order to minimise political risk issues.
TAIWO OYEDELE
Taiwo is the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at PwC. He is the author of Insights on Taxation and Fiscal Policy; the Top 50 Tax Issues in Nigeria; and the Nigeria Transfer Pricing Chapter of the IBFD publication. He is a contributor to the annual doing business report of the World Bank and the Paying Taxes survey of PwC covering 190 economies worldwide.
He is the Thematic Lead for the Public Finance & Taxation Policy Commission of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group; Chairman of the Taxation & Fiscal Policy Faculty Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria; member of the Nigerian Taxation Standards Board; and a member of the Ministerial Committee on the implementation of Nigeria’s National Tax Policy.
He is a member of the Global Tax Forum and a former member of the Global Governing Council of ACCA.
Taiwo is an alumnus of the London School of Economics, Yale University and Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education. He is a guest lecturer at the Lagos Business School and the Founder and President of Impact Africa Foundation.
Chris Fowler
Chris Fowler is General Counsel Technology at BT Group plc in London. Chris is accountable for the legal support to Technology which is the unit in BT responsible for the design, delivery and management of BT’s fixed and mobile network infrastructure, its research and development activities and its internal IT infrastructure. Chris is responsible for the intellectual property, security & investigatory powers, network deployment & network property legal teams.
Formerly Chris was responsible for transformation within BT Legal & Co Sec and was responsible for defining and implementing its strategy, managing its overall budget as well as the central operations team which comprises finance, vendor management, technology implementation, reporting and communications. Before that Chris was the General Counsel for UK Commercial with responsibility for setting and oversight of BT’s group wide contractual risk frameworks.
His work in transforming this function was acknowledged by the Association of Corporate Counsel as one of its Value Champions in 2013, cited as one of the reasons why BT was recognised by the FT Innovative Lawyers awards as the most innovative in-house team in 2015, the Legal 500 as its Telecoms Team of the year for 2018 and in November 2019 the Technology Legal Team was recognised as the Commerce and Industry Team of the Year and the TMT Team of the year at the British Legal Awards.
FOLUKE-AKINMOLADUN
Foluke Akinmoladun is the Managing Solicitor of Trizon Law Chambers, Nigeria. She is a lawyer, a mediator, an arbitrator and an accountant. Her work experience covers both domestic and international commercial legal matters. She is a member of panel of neutrals of a number of arbitral institutions including the Lagos Multi-Door Court House and the Property Dispute Management Foundation.
She was once head of the secretariat of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre. She has acted in various capacities in the arbitration process such as, acting legal representative to parties at arbitral proceedings, acting as arbitral registrar and as arbitrator.
Foluke has worked as the lead rapporteur and co-rapporteur in international conferences on arbitration, commerce and maritime. She has written articles on construction and arbitration matters and her articles have been published in both Nigerian and international publications.
ANDREW SKIPPER
Andrew is Head of the Hogan Lovells Africa Practice, having been a member of the International Management Committee and co-head of the Corporate Practice Group for a number of years. Andrew is a regular commentator on African affairs and is co-chair of UK government’s Africa Investors Group, a member of the Council of the Royal Africa Society, the advisory board of South Africa Chamber of Commerce in the UK and the working group on legal services for UK-Nigeria Economic Development Forum (EDF). Andrew is passionate about African Art and is co-vice chair of the advisory board of Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, and on the advisory Board of the Art Fair 1-54.