Sunday, August 17, 2014

SMEs Financing: What are the options?

LYP Kenya is proud to host a talk on SME financing by Dan Awendo, Founder and CEO of Investeq Capital, a company licensed by the Capital Markets Authority to operate the business of a fund manager. InvesteQ was primarily formed as a Venture Capital Company as well as a vehicle to provide equity, asset and working capital finance to SMEs and support them with other retail lending schemes.

1.      If you want to know the truth about raising money for your business this session is for you.

2.      If you are having a tough time raising the money you want for your business this session is for you too.

3.      If you are not sure where to go to get the kind of funding you need for your business this session is just what you need.

After many years of helping businesses of various kinds raise the money they want, Dan will outline all that you need to know about raising money for your start-up business! You'll better understand the various financial options available, and how to access them, including tips on….

·         Venture Capital Financing, Angle Investors.

·         Commercial Real Estate Financing.

·         Personal Financing.

·         Peer-to-Peer Lending.

·         Invoice Discounting & Local Purchase Order Financing.

·         Purchase Order Financing. etc


Date: Thursday August 21, 2014
Time: 6:00pm-9pm
Venue: KICC, Tin Tin Restaurant.
Entrance: Members Ksh. 500, Non Members 1,000.
Reservation: Payment via Paybill 247247. Account number 0240293600721 then fill registration form attached and send it to info@ypkenya.org

More info contact Christine 0738 782 048 / admin.nairobi@ypkenya.org, Karim 0721 691 219 info@ypkenya.org.



Dan Awendo  is an accounting and finance professional with over 20 years of post qualification experience in audit, accounting, management consultancy and corporate finance advisory. He is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya and a professional Financial Analyst and Management Consultant and a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme (AMP) from the Strathmore Business School in Kenya.

He has worked in senior management positions in both local and international companies. Before founding Investeq Capital, Dan was the General Manager for Loita Capital Partners and Loita Asset Management and was responsible for the group's East African Corporate Finance business.

Dan is a board member of various companies in the telecommunications, business incubation, real estate, infrastructure development and tourism industries. He has been a founding board member of the Youth Enterprise Development Fund. Dan is also a board member of the Kenya Institute of Management, Chairman of the Enablis Loan Fund Investment Committee and a member of an SME Think Tank organized by the Financial Sector Deepening Fund.

Awendo has been listed by The Business Daily as one of Kenya's "High Impact Entrepreneurs" and one of Kenya's "CEO's with Golden Hands". He has also been profiled by The Standard Newspaper as a "Captain of Industry".

 

 

4th Annual Sports Day.


On 30th of this month, we shall host our 4th Annual sports day and we extend our Invitation to you and your company. The event will take place on 30thAugust 2014 at KCB Sports ground off Thika Super Highway starting at 9.00am till 4.00pm and later we shall have evening dinner at Tin Tin Restaurant from 7.00pm. limited tickets are available for only Ksh 2,500/= for membersNon members Ksh 3,000/= and Kids Ksh 1,000/= and company corporate team of 10 members at Ksh. 30,000. Deadline for payment is this Thursday 21st August. We are anticipating over 250 participants and over 10 corporate sponsors. Booking is by Payments via the details above, and then fill the attached form and send it to info@ypkenya.org .


It's a day to look forward too and you cannot afford to miss the 2014 sports event. The purpose of the sports day is to bring our members together to have fun and network with an aim of boosting our education kitty. We shall be raising funds to educate needy but bright students in high schools. Our goal is to have at least 50 pupils by Year 2018. Currently are sponsoring three students ( 1 boy in Lenana High School and 2 girls in Starehe Girls Centre)

 

Dinner attire is Black Tie. Our Guest Speaker is  Lucy Muchoki, CEO of Pan African Agribusiness and Agroindustry Consortium (PanAAC). She will share with us Investing in Agribusiness: Available Opportunities and Challenges. Below find her profile.


  • Sponsorship packages here.


About Lucy Muchoki

Lucy Muchoki is a Kenyan and the current Chief Executive Officer of Pan African Agribusiness Consortium (PanAAC), a Regional Agribusiness network that is mobilizing and promoting the domestic private Sector in Africa through enhanced productivity and competitiveness in the national, regional and Global markets.

 

Among her various Agribusiness forum participation include being the Private Sector Representative to the Executive Boards of Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa FARA, Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in East and Central Africa, ASARECA and Global Forum for Agriculture and Research (GFAR).

 

She is also the Private Sector representative to the steering committee of two African Union Commission programmes on Aflotoxin control programme, (PACA) and markets, trade and Infrastructure.

 

She is the Vice Chair of CAADP's Non State Actors Taskforce and has also been serving as a member of the Thematic Working Group on the agribusiness, value addition and market access programme in the Kenya's Agricultural Sector Coordinating Unit, ASCU.

 

An entrepreneur and social scientist, she has extensive experience in value chains development and management and has participated actively in various high level dialogues and workshops that address the development of Agribusiness in Africa.

 

An accomplished entrepreneur, Lucy is a founder and owner of African Natural Products Company.



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