Speakers

Tamsin Freemantle has extensive experience working on the continent, with a focus on the development of capital markets.
She was with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for 8 years, in a business development role for Africa ex-South Africa. Her role involved working within the structures of CoSSE (Community of SADC Stock Exchanges) and ASEA (African Securities Exchanges Association), to further co-operation and development of the member exchanges. Tamsin’s In addition to this she has 5 years of experience in retail banking, 10 years of experience in general management and 3 years of professional services experience; these roles were at Nedbank and Allen & Overy LLP.

Tamsin is passionate about building the African continent, her Masters research explored the topic of accelerating the development of African Capital Markets. She has set up her own business focusing on developing Africa’s capital markets through training and strategic advisory. She has an extensive global network in financial markets, and this includes government, regulators, DFIs, exchanges and corporate players and advisors. Her clients include FMDQ Securities Exchange in Nigeria, Chapel Hill Denham Nigeria, and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. She also works with professional services firms such as Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie and G. Elias in Nigeria and Webber Wentzel in South Africa.
She has supported the African Crowdfunding Association (ACfA), with regulatory policy and supervision, bringing crowdfunding to the capital markets on the continent, and has worked with the Ethiopian Capital Markets Working Group, through FSD Africa. Tamsin presented recently at the invitation of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Zambia, at the launch of the Zambian Capital Markets Master Plan, on strategies to build a credible market in Africa, and conducted training at the invitation of the Zambian Ministry of Finance, Economists Unit, in December 2023.

Her work has included training on capital markets and their development, analysis of the financial market infrastructures in Africa and other regions, and engagement with regulatory authorities across the continent. She is currently serving as a Vice President and board member of the South Africa-Nigeria Business Chamber. She is on the investment committee of a Guernsey domiciled Africa-focused private equity firm, with responsibility for regulatory and sustainability matters, and acts as an advisor to UK registered Greyhorse Clearinghouse Ltd, a cross-border multi-currency blockchain based decentralized clearinghouse that provides non-custodial settlement services.

Tamsin has recently entered a collaboration with 8Hundred, an independent strategic advisory firm in Johannesburg, South Africa, specialized in assisting African companies secure debt and equity funding through the capital markets. Tamsin studied English, International Relations and Law at the University of Witwatersrand and has an MBA from Pretoria University’s Gordon Institute of Business (GIBS) in South Africa.