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Dan Cobley
Managing Partner: Fintech
Blenheim Chalcot
Dan Cobley is an entrepreneur and investor in innovative tech start-up businesses,
focusing on financial services. He is the managing partner of FinTech at venture
builder Blenheim Chalcot. In this role, he has cofounded and now chairs three
fast-growth FinTech companies — SalaryFinance, BusinessFinanceCompared and
ClearScore. He also sits on different boards.
Until late 2014, Mr. Cobley spent over eight years at Google, most recently as
managing director, UK & Ireland — the biggest market for Google outside the US and the most advanced in terms
of e-commerce and online advertising spending. He was promoted to this role after serving as Google’s first
marketing director, UK, Ireland and Benelux and then as VP marketing, EMEA. Previously, Mr. Cobley held various
marketing positions in different Business to Consumer (B2C) firms.
Mr. Cobley is a regular keynote speaker at conferences, speaking on the disruptive power of FinTech, technology,
innovation and Google’s unique approach to business. He has shared his thoughts on physics and marketing at the
TED conference and with over a million people online. In 2012, he was named as number three in Wired UK top
100 list and number two in Evening Standard’s 1000 Most Influential Londoners Digital Innovators.
François Conradie
Head of Research
NKC African Economics
François Conradie is head of Research at NKC African Economics, a South African
specialist research firm that investigates and interprets the sovereign risk, and
political and macroeconomic conditions of 30 African countries to caution against
pitfalls and guide investors toward opportunities. NKC African Economics is now
part of Oxford Economics. Since joining in 2011, Mr. Conradie’s work with NKC has
mainly dealt with political risks to the business and investment environment in the
countries that NKC covers, and the impact on the economy of fiscal dynamics.
Mr. Conradie earned a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and an MPhil in Futures Studies at the University
of Stellenbosch. After teaching languages in Cape Town for a year, Mr. Conradie began his career in marketing.
In 2007, he moved to Tunisia where he worked as a stockbroker on the local market and, in 2008, he moved to
Morocco to launch the international trading desk for a regional financial services company.
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