Keynote address - Mark Lamberti & Yasmin Kumi

The Oxford Business Forum Africa, held at Saïd Business School on 10 March 2018.

Mark Lamberti - Founder, Massmart Holdings; and CEO, Imperial Holdings

From 1985 Lamberti embarked on an entrepreneurial journey employing strategy, organisation design and financial thought leadership to establish, develop, turn-around and lead the listing of three South African based companies on the JSE: Jazz Stores (small format convenience supermarkets for urban commuters); Massmart (consumer goods mass retailer grown from 6 stores in 1988 to 238 stores when Walmart acquired control in 2011); and Transaction Capital (non-deposit taking financial services).

Yasmin Kumi - Founder and Managing Director, Africa Foresight Group

Yasmin Kumi founded AFG in 2015 to follow her passion of fostering local economic value creation in Africa. She is a Ghanaian/German senior business consultant with extensive working experience in the consumer goods and financial services sector, the research of family business groups and agriculture in African markets.