Melissa Frakman is the Founder & Managing Partner of Emphasis Ventures, an early-stage venture investor and award-winning business strategist with over a decade of on-the-ground experience in India and other global emerging technology hubs. She invests in, and builds bridges for, digital finance products and services that are created in developing markets and have global applications including: Payments, personal finance and capital markets innovation, new credit models, hyperlocal consumer, artificial intelligence, capital, markets innovations, biometrics, and blockchain.

Lucy Parry is the Cofounder and VP Operations at Carry1st, where she's responsible for global operations and growth. Carry1st is helping to build the premier mobile content company for African consumers through an interactive content platform leveraging mobile technology to delight and serve the first generation of African smartphone users.