Greg Marchand is an entrepreneur, business operator, angel investor, and advisor on doing business in emerging markets with 20 years of experience operating businesses across more than 15 African countries. He is a Senior Advisor for Blackstone Africa, a shared services provider for emerging market investors, financial institutions, and startups; a Partner at Avencion, a technology and business outsourcing company focused on digital and people transformation in the USA and Africa; and a Co-Founder of Harvard Healthlab Africa (H2A), a pan-African accelerator programme implemented in partnership with Harvard University. He is also a Co-Founder and board member of the Zambian Business Angels Network. An active angel investor and startup mentor focused on fintech, digital health, technology, green climate-tech, last-mile transport, and plant-based food industries, Greg is the founder and first President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Zambia and a representative for the Africa CEO Forum. He has been named one of African Business Magazine’s Top 100 Economic Leaders Under 40 in Africa, has been invited to the White House Africa Summit, and has served as a guest speaker at Harvard, the University of Chicago, Cambridge, and Wharton MBA programmes. He began his career as a management consultant at Deloitte and later served on the faculty of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He studied economics at Dartmouth College and holds a degree in business administration and accounting from Morehouse College.