The founder and Managing Director of VPB, and is regarded as a pioneer in the field of Venture Capital in Botswana. Prior to establishing VPB he was involved in the consulting and financial management arena out of Johannesburg, South Africa with Deloitte and Touche, where he was involved in the establishment of a regional Private Equity fund capitalized at Euros 100Million. He later joined the fund and was involved in the conclusion of transactions in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia and Angola. He went on to establish a Corporate Finance and Advisory company in Botswana and South Africa which specialized in mergers and acquisitions. He is a Computer Science graduate of Aston University Birmingham (UK) and is a qualified Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA).

Nkosana Moyo, is the former Minister of Trade and Industry in Zimbabwe, and Partner of Actis managing the Africa region. He is currently the vice president and COO of the African Development Bank (AfDB). Moyo holds a PhD in Physics from Imperial College, London, and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in the United Kingdom. Moyo has vast experience in the financial services sector. He served with the International Finance Corporation, Standard Chartered Bank, TA Holdings, Botswana Capital, Actis Capital, World Bank and Batanai Capital Finance, a company he founded in 1997. Batanai Capital Finance was one of the first shareholders in Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe, publishers of the now banned Daily News. Moyo became the company's first chairman.

Wagane is responsible for the overall management of the company. Wagane joined Mecene (AfriCap Microventures) in 2001 as Investment Officer. He was subsequently promoted to Fund Manager in 2003. He has been instrumental in building the AfriCap portfolio, managing several exits and the recapitalization of the Fund in 2007 from $14 million to $50 million. Prior to joining Mecene Investment, he spent his career in the Information Technology industry in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia. In 1989 Wagane founded Nelwlink Benelux, a Software Company based in Brussels, that was subsequently sold to Attachmate Corporation.
Prior to joining AfriCap, Wagane held Senior Vice President for International Business positions with software companies and Internet startups such as Dun & Bradstreet Software, Per-Se Technologies, Best Doctors and Singlesignon. Com. Wagane holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Ecole Superieure de Gestion (Paris), Bachelors degree in Finance from Ecole Superieure de Gestion (Paris) and an Executive MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta). Wagane is fluent in French and English and has good command of Spanish and Portuguese

Robert Fogler is the principal founder of Thousand Hills Venture Fund. He is a Managing Director of each of the THVF funds. Mr. Fogler is also an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Denver University, where he teaches a course on Capital Markets in Africa that covers mortgage finance, microfinance, and private and public securities markets in Africa. Mr. Fogler is also a frequent speaker at international conferences and events on investment in Africa. Mr. Fogler holds degrees in Philosophy, Engineering and Law, all from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Joseph Okpaku, a national of Nigeria, is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Telecom Africa Corporation, a company dedicated to building a globally competitive indigenous African industrial capacity in information and telecommunications technologies. He has devoted much of his professional life to the advocacy for, and design of, strategies for the development of Africa towards global competitiveness within the framework of her cultural priorities. He is recognized as a leading thinker at the cutting edge of the development of information and telecommunications in Africa as strategic tools for furthering the continent's advancement. In this regard, Dr. Okpaku has crafted initiatives by Telecom Africa to build manufacturing, research and development, software and applications capacity in Africa through strategic partnerships and joint ventures with global and regional technology companies. Dr. Okpaku made his international debut as the founder, editor-in-chief and publisher of The Third Press, a New York-based book publishing company whose authors included Africa's leading writers, scholars and policy-makers. He consults for Governments and international organizations in the fields of development, governance, long-term strategic planning and futures studies. Dr. Okpaku holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University, a Master of Science Degree in Structural Engineering from Stanford University and Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Dramatic Literature and Theatre History, also from Stanford University.

Jacqueline Musiitwa, Esq, is the founder and executive director of Transitional Trade, a non-profit whose mission it is to promote social trade, investment and entrepreneurship in post-conflict countries and transitional communities. Additionally, she started and runs, Hoja Law Group, a New York based boutique law firm which represents start ups, non-profits and small businesses in corporate and intellectual property transactions both in the United States and Africa. Jacqueline began her career at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, where she focused on corporate and outsourcing matters. She is an Adjunct Professor of International Law at Central Michigan University and Sociopolitics and Economics of Africa at Drexel. Her areas of research focus on the politics and socioeconomics of post-conflict countries, Sino-Africa relations, social entrepreneurship and South-South relations. She earned her BA in Political Science and International Studies from Davidson College and her JD from the University of Melbourne, where she was a member of the Melbourne Journal of International Law.

Nozipho was a deputy director-general in the Department of Foreign Affairs. She was South Africa's ambassador to Switzerland from 2001 to 2005. She has also served on the boards of, among others, FirstRand Insurance (Momentum) and Southern Life Insurance Companies.