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Iain Usiri
Iain Usiri is the co-founder and CEO of Ramani, a Tanzanian fintech building financial infrastructure for Africa's consumer-packaged-goods supply chains. A Stanford computer science graduate and former Salesforce product manager, he gave up his US immigration status and flew home one-way in 2019 to start the company with his brother Calvin and friend Martin Kibet. Ramani gives micro distribution centers free point-of-sale and inventory software, then monetizes through lending - and in 2022 raised a $32M Series A led by Flexcap Ventures after passing through Y Combinator's W20 batch.
Muzafar K. Bazaarwala
Muzafar K. Bazaarwala is the founder and chief executive of ZK Saasto Bazaars (Pvt) Limited, which bills itself as the first company in Pakistan built to organize and modernize weekly bazaars as a branded, repeatable format. Operating out of Karachi, his business turns the country's informal weekly markets, where households buy groceries, fresh produce, meat and clothes, into a structured platform aimed at small traders and everyday shoppers. An INSEAD-trained entrepreneur, marketer and self-described salesperson, he has courted government bodies in Sindh, the Prime Minister's Youth Programme and the US Embassy, and he is a vocal commentator on Pakistan's startup scene, dissecting Shark Tank Pakistan pitches line by line on LinkedIn.
Anita Batho
Anita Batho is the Co-Founder and Principal at Torch (torch.com.au), a boutique brand strategy and innovation consultancy based in Sydney, Australia that has illuminated brand futures for blue-chip clients since 1999. Drawing on a career spanning consumer goods giants Unilever (Best Foods) and ICI Paints, and senior roles at Kantar, Anita built Torch into a respected agency known for immersive consumer research, bespoke brand workshops, and commercially grounded innovation work for clients including Arnott's, Telstra, PepsiCo, A2 Milk, Mercedes-Benz, and Moët Hennessy.