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Mr. Karl Hala is an experienced hospitality management professional with over 35 years of experience in the hospitality industry. He has an enviable passion for hospitality, as well as a flare for businesses in the hospitality space. Over the years, he has taken deliberate actions toward the development and resultant growth of various hospitality enterprises, with a special focus on the African hospitality market, earning him the nickname Africa's hospitality guru. Karl Hala has contributed tremendously to the growth and...

Chris Titmas is a seasoned and internationally experienced Professional at an Executive level, with 30 years industry experience and has strong exposure to Project & Construction Design, Development & Delivery on iconic high-end hotels and other sector projects in several global regions, having delivered projects on behalf of astute private vendors, international property & equity funds, as well as institutions and PPP’s having worked in the UAE, MENA, Indian Ocean Island regions and Southern & West Africa. Chris’ current remit...

Tolu joined Actis in 2015 as a member of the real estate investment team based in Lagos, focusing on West and Central Africa. In this role his is responsible for fundraising, origination, execution, portfolio management and exits. He currently serves as the Fund Manager for the Actis West Africa Real Estate Income Fund (“NREIF”). Prior to Actis, Tolu was a Vice President at African Capital Alliance (“ACA”). At ACA Tolu invested in retail, hospitality, residential and office assets in West...

Dolapo Omidire is the Founder and Team Lead at Estate Intel. He spent over 2 years at Broll in Nigeria as the Lead Research Analyst working on market and feasibility studies for international and local institutional real estate investors. Dolapo also spent over a year at AXA Mansard Investments as an Alternative Investment Analyst. Dolapo is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (UK) with a specialty in Commercial Property Research and also holds a BSc in Investment...

Trevor Ward has been specialist consultant in the hospitality, leisure and real estate industries for over 30 years. He is the Principal of the W Hospitality Group, and Chairman of Hotel Partners Africa, with offices in the UK, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa. He is regarded as one of the foremost experts on the hotel industry in sub-Saharan Africa, and is engaged primarily in development consultancy ranging from investment appraisals to operator selection, owner’s representation and asset management, valuations, financing,...

Tola is the co-founder and CEO at Spleet, a financial services and prop-tech startup fractionalizing rent into monthly payments. Tola is an accomplished product manager and designer with over 11 years of experience working on products in the fintech, real estate and banking industry. In addition to product management and design, Tola has experience in operations management and project coordination. His passion for solving problems in Africa and for social impact led him to create Spleet: a property tech company...

Timi is the Country Commercial Manager at Agility Logistics Parks based in Lagos, Nigeria, where he is responsible for sales and marketing of the 270,000m2 Agility warehouse park under construction on the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way that is opening late 2022, providing industrial real estate solutions and services to both national and international corporate clients requiring space for storage, distribution, packing, processing and manufacturing. He also oversees the evaluation of further warehouse park locations across Nigeria and executes the corporate marketing...

Temilola Sonola is currently the International Finance Corporation (IFC), EDGE, Green Building Market Transformation Program contact for Lagos, Nigeria. She also supports markets in the West Africa region and works closely with other regions in ensuring green buildings becomes mainstream in all markets. EDGE, Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies, works with the built environment for green building awareness and certifications; with the financial institutions in creating innovative sustainable financing and with the government to find ways of incorporating sustainable...

Temitope Runsewe is the Managing Director of Dutum Construction Company Limited, one of Africa’s leading indigenous construction and civil engineering firms. Under his leadership, Dutum has become synonymous with the effective delivery of diverse construction projects and services to a broad base of clients in the public and private sectors. Dutum Construction is committed to providing world-class construction projects and services by combining expertise, experience, and a long history. The company is in the forefront of providing superior construction services...

Tola is an investment banker and has had various roles within corporate and investment banking with specializations in Real Estate Finance and Project & Structured Finance. He has over 15 years of in-country and regional work experience (including Nigeria, Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire) which spans across various asset classes (with an estimated portfolio size over US$1.5 billion) within the real estate sector. In addition, his project finance deal mandates include debt capital raising for major infrastructural projects in the oil...