Tarek Mouganie
Tarek Mouganie is a Ghanaian entrepreneur and Founder and Group CEO of Affinity Africa, a digital bank that provides affordable and accessible services to micro and small and medium sized businesses. Since inception, Affinity's contribution has been profound, with nearly 90% of their customers previously unbanked, over 60% of whom are women operating in the informal sector.
Tarek was previously a Director at Man Group where he managed a portfolio of investments within the $160 billion global investment fund. He started his career as an academic at the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PhD in Physics at the age of 21 and is currently an MBA Entrepreneurship Tutor at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Tarek is committed to entrepreneurship and the creative industries as a means of enabling social and economic development. He is the creator of Front/Back, a pan-African social venture that nurtures and promotes musicians and artists from Africa and its diaspora and he sits on the board of 1-54, the largest fair dedicated to contemporary African art. He is also the co-founder of the Ghana Triathlon Federation, having served as a national athlete and placing top 10 in a number of World Championships and a 2022 Archbishop Tutu Fellow.