Speaker Profile

Dinah Hammond

Investment Manager ,

Savannah Impact Advisory

Speaker Bio

Dinah Hammond is the Investment Manager at Savannah Impact Advisory and has over 13 years experience working with some of the most pioneering investors and small growing businesses in emerging markets, particularly in high-impact sectors like Agriculture, Healthcare, Clean Energy, Manufacturing and Technology. She has keen interest in gender equity and venture building as cross-cutting themes for responsible development and she brings these lenses to all her work.

Her progressive experience cuts across Private Equity, Financial Advisory and Entrepreneurial Support at national, regional and global levels.

She has been instrumental in raising two anglophone West Africa focused PE funds with over USD $300 million under management and has advised on over USD $75 million of Ghanaian debt and equity transactions focusing on strategy and execution.

To increase investment flow to underserved but impactful businesses, she volunteers her time delivering high impact-oriented mentoring and coaching in partnership with venture building institutions like Seedstars, MEST,MEDA, KIC, GIZ, Impact Investing Ghana  amongst others.

Dinah is a strong finance professional with an MBA focused in Finance, from Coventry University.