Radwan Fattal Dakmak is a businessman specialized in real estate development and investments. He started working in Ghana in 1990 and is the current Managing Director of Wahhab Estate Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Meridian Group with investments in Ghana, UAE, the UK and Portugal.
Availability of credit and at competitive prices are major factors that promote the growth of businesses. Two of the main problems that face Ghana’s small and medium-scale enterprises are the unavailability of credit and the cost of credit. A critical look at this problem reveals that it is not primarily unavailability but rather, the conditions for accessing available credit that most entities are unable to meet.
Sundeep Raichura discusses upcoming expansion plans for Zamara Group, a leading provider of a wide range of services including: pension and insurance solutions, actuarial services, retirement funds administration and management, etc. He also discusses insurance and pensions penetration in Kenya and East Africa, and shares his vision for the future of Zamara in Africa.
Sundeep Raichura, Group CEO at Zamara Group, presents the diversified financial services firm and discusses expansion plans across the African continent.
Jihad Ibrahim presents Dream Realty, a Ghana-based real estate development company specialized in high-end buildings, which came about as a joint venture between Jamil Ibrahim Establishment and Interplast Limited. He also discusses latest news and shares his vision for the future of the company and its flagship project: The Octagon.
Jihad Ibrahim, CEO of Dream Realty, a real estate development company based in Ghana, with a long, diversified and multi-disciplinary experience in building, gives an overview of The Octagon, a 100,000 sqm office building located in Accra Central.
Historically, resource consumption has been correlated with the economic development of a society. This has led to emergence of wasteful practices in global production and consumption with little regard for optimization. Resources are finite and with the world population estimated to 9.6 billion people by 2050, three earths will be needed to provide the resources needed to sustain our current lifestyle.
The conversation is still on-going on why those who make an early move into any business sector, get the early mover advantage. In sum, it is believed that early movers are able to grab untapped opportunity and thereafter rein in the multiplier effect.
Nicholas Bortey presents Liranz Limited, the premier IT support and outsourcing provider in Ghana, offering a wide range of IT services to various sectors (oil and gas, farming, energy, mining, etc.), such as: managed IT services, IT consulting, IT infrastructure and communication and IT procurement and management. He also discusses his ambition to turn Liranz into a global IT consultancy and outsourcing firm in the next few years.
Altemius Millinga, Managing Director of Yetu Microfinance Bank PLC, shares his assessment of the microfinance sector in Tanzania and gives an overview of Yetu Microfinance, a bank specialized in providing financial services, loans, savings products, money transfer and payments to the lower end of the market of the financial sector spectrum.
