Dr. Frank Aswani is the CEO of AVPA, a pan-African network of social investors collaborating to increase the flow of capital (grants, debt or equity) towards impact across Africa and address the continent’s SDG financing gap. He’s Kenyan, living in Johannesburg, holds a Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Nairobi and an MBA from GIBS (Gordon Institute of Business Studies), University of Pretoria, South Africa. He presents extensive Private and Social sector experience. His previous roles included 14 years in Healthcare with Eli Lilly where he worked in Kenya, England, Switzerland and South Africa. His last role at Lilly was the Sales Director for South Africa and Regional Director for Sub Sahara Africa where he managed over 25 countries in Anglo Phone and Luso-phone Sub Sahara Africa. Frank is a visiting faculty in Oxford said business school’s social finance and impact investing programs. He is also a member of the Investment committee of the MasterCard Foundation Africa Growth fund, Advisory board member of the Oryx Fund of Funds and the founder and host of Afropact Podcast series. Frank is a passionate pan-African and perennial Afro-optimist who believes that Africans should be at the forefront of solving our own problems.