Zee de Gersigny

Investment Head - Venture & Early-Stage Financing Vehicles

Zee is joining as Investment Head – Venture & Early-Stage Financing Vehicles at FSDAi, with a focus on new and alternative solutions to finance SMEs.

Prior to joining FSDAi, she was a Director at the Collaborative for Frontier Finance, focusing on the Early Stage Capital Providers cluster. She has two decades of investment experience working in Africa, London and New York. Her career includes co-founding Victus Global Capital, an organisation focused on transforming agriculture and empowering women in Africa through impact investment, capacity building, and increased trade. She was the Managing Director of Momentum Africa Investments, South Africa’s third-largest life insurance company’s initiative to take Africa investments to international investors and the Chief Investment Officer of Momentum Investment Consulting.

Zee is a CFA charterholder, has an Executive MBA from the University of Cape Town Business School and an MSc in Sustainable Development from the University of Sussex.

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