Africa House Demo Event

Daniel Barankin is the founder and CEO of 6ix, a financial technology company on a mission to unlock social mobility on a global scale by empowering anyone from anywhere to invest in anything. Their flagship product, 6ix Events, has networked more than 100,000 investors with more than 400 companies since 2016.

Shanthi Annan originates from Ghana, Nigeria, India and England. She was born and raised in the UK as the eldest of five daughters. In 2006, Shanthi graduated from Oxford University having read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE), affectionately known as The Gentleman’s Degree. She started her career in pursuit of the answer to the question ‘how do you start a business?’. Beginning as a Property Search Consultant in the property development arm of the fast-growing ChapmanBlack Group , she soon took on the role of Project Manager where she was responsible for running five concurrent residential construction projects successfully. By 2008 she had been transitioned over to the recruitment arm of the business, to act as Head of Operations. She exposed herself to all aspects of the business and was responsible for Marketing, Communications, Human Resources, Process Improvement and Technology. Her last role was to act in the capacity of Chief Strategy Officer to develop a new managed service which today is going from strength to strength as Endorsed . In 2012, Shanthi went in search of how to be a contribution in an African context. This compelled her to explore a variety of different business models which resulted in her founding Kinship of Kush ; an exciting new initiative to empower young Global Africans to freely shape the world whilst bringing together and strengthening the Global (African) Family. Shanthi is presently, an Advisor to The Uncondemned an important documentary which tells the story of three courageous women from Rwanda and the young lawyers who provoked a transformation in global justice for women everywhere. In 2017 she was appointed as an Advisor to the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust ; a new charity supported by Prince Harry as President, established in recognition of its Patron Her Majesty The Queen’s lifetime of service to the Commonwealth and her belief in young people as leaders for good in the world. It is against this backdrop that Shanthi works to raise her young family. She is the mother of two sons Xavier (3 yrs) and Josiah (3 months), the wife of Kojo Annan and the Daughter In Law of Kofi Annan.

Sebastian Spio-Garbrah has been adjudged one of the world’s leading frontier markets analysts, and was voted among the ‘Top 30 under 30 Analysts’ by New York’s Institutional Investor Magazine in 2006. Sebastian helped establish the Africa risk research practice at leading global political risk consultancy firm, Eurasia Group LLC in New York, London (UK) and Tokyo, and concurrently served as a sovereign risk analyst on Sub-Saharan Africa’s two largest economies, Nigeria and South Africa for a novel global stability index developed by Eurasia Group with Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, and subsequently, with Citigroup between 2005 and 2010. Since 2010, Sebastian has been Global Managing Director & Chief Frontier Markets Analyst at DaMina Advisors where he advises the boards, CEOs and portfolio managers of many of the world’s leading multinationals and largest institutional investors on Africa. A prolific writer and an ambidextrous thinker, Sebastian has been quoted extensively by the international media. Previously, Sebastian led debt capital markets surveillance unit at Thompson Reuters in New York. Sebastian also advised former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission on Africa. Sebastian sits on the board of Christian Children’s Fund of Canada, African Business Media, Canada – Africa Chamber of Business and Jewish Heart for Africa – Innovation Africa. Sebastian is a member of Toronto’s High Park and Parkdale Rotary Club and a Fellow at the Washington Center for the Study of the Presidency. Sebastian holds a B.A (double) in Economics and Political Science from Middlebury College, Vermont and a Juris Doctor (J.D) in law from Rutgers University, New Jersey.