Anne serves as the Chair of the Audit Committee of EASE Holdings BV.

Anne recently retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) as the Regional Senior Partner for Eastern Africa and Senior Country Partner Kenya, a role in which she oversaw 1,500 employees in six African countries.

In her 40-year career with PWC, 30 of which she spent as partner, she was widely recognized as one of Africa’s leading industry professionals.

She led the provision of audit and related advisory services for a wide range of clients: Pan African, regional and local, private and listed, including several banks and other financial institutions. She also advised countless audit committees and boards on financial reporting and internal control matters.

Anne has an MBA (Distinction) from the University of Warwick, is a Fellow of the Association of Certified and Chartered Accountants (FCCA), and a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Accountants of Kenya (FCPA).

Brooks serves, as a non-executive director, on both the AAFC and the EASE Boards. He is the founder and managing partner of Roha and serves as the executive chair of Arat Health Inc and its subsidiary companies Roha Health BV and Roha Medical Campus in Addis Ababa. He also serves as a member on the board of Raxio Group BV.

Brooks previously was CEO (General Manager) of Juniper Glass Industries, Roha’s first large-scale industrial development.

Before founding Roha in 2013, Brooks was a consultant with McKinsey & Company – first in Johannesburg, and then as a co-founder of the Lagos office. He was inspired to start Roha by the number of compelling opportunities he saw across the continent and the lack of institutions pursuing them.

Brooks is based in Nairobi and has lived and worked in multiple African cities for the past twelve years. He graduated from Harvard College with a degree in social studies (with a focus on economics and politics).

Degol serves as non-executive director on the board of Ethio Lease.

Degol is the CEO of Raxio Ethiopia, and has 20 years of experience in the financial services sector holding various commercial and leadership roles. Before joining Raxio, Degol was the CEO of Ethio Lease, the first foreign owned financial services company and previously was the General Manager of Sun Optical technologies and joint venture company of Essilor.

Frans is CEO of Cathmere Inc, and serves as the executive chair of African Asset Finance Company Inc, and as the non-executive chair of EASE Holdings BV.

Previously, Frans founded Tribute Capital, was a managing partner at Logispring, served as (interim) CEO of a number of industrial groups, and was a junior partner at Gilde Investment Funds. He has co-founded several businesses, including an equipment leasing company.

Frans holds a BA in history, an LLM from the University of Amsterdam and a post-graduate diploma in international relations from the University of Vienna.

Geoff serves as lead independent director of EASE Holdings BV.

Geoff is a seasoned business executive with broad and deep experience in operating leadership and management development.

As a three-time CEO, Geoff has had the opportunity to work with and manage small to large teams across a number of industries, in privately held and publicly traded ownership environments, and across a wide array of functional areas.

Geoff has always had a keen interest in professional management and best practice governance. Whether by leading a 4,000-employee public US company (West Marine) or working with an individual executive as a CEO coach (The Eisenberg Company), Geoff has focused on helping executives improve their leadership and management skills.

With his 40+ years of U.S.-based management and board experience, Geoff provides an effective complement to the international experience of AAFC’s portfolio of companies.

Girma serves as the chair of Ethio Lease and serves as a non-executive director on the board of AAFC.

He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Ethiopian Airlines, and as an adviser to the Government of Togo.

Girma is best known for transforming Ethiopia Airlines into the leading African aviation powerhouse it is today.

He is the former chairman of Rwanda Air and United Insurance Company, and worked earlier in his career for Gulf Air. He graduated from the University College of Addis Ababa

Ismael serves as a board member of Ethio Lease. He was a co-organizer of Ethio Lease and has been working on the preparation of the launch of Ethio Lease and AAFC since 2017, initially as part of the Roha team in Addis, and later as General Manager of AEPC in Dubai.

Prior to joining Roha, Ismael worked as a commercial business analyst for Heineken, and as a market research and route management analyst for Ethiopian Airlines, after a short stint as a junior officer at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia.

Ismael earned an MBA from the University of Manchester, a certificate in business metrics for data-driven companies from Duke, and successfully completed the aviation and marketing course at ET's Aviation School after earning a BA in economics from Addis Ababa University.

Robert is a Partner at the Roha Group, a firm that responsibly builds profitable businesses in Africa by investing in and developing new companies across the continent. While at Roha, Robert led the development of and investment in, the Raxio Group in 2018, becoming Raxio’s CEO until 2025. As CEO, he led Raxio’s expansion to become the leading pan-African data centre operator with the widest geographic footprint on the continent, spanning seven countries.  

Prior to joining Roha and Raxio, Robert was the Chief Financial Officer and Head of Smart Mobility business for Confidex, a high-growth technology company, and a Partner at Logispring, a transatlantic venture capital firm, where he invested in, and served on the Board of, numerous portfolio companies in the area of industrial innovation. He started his career in Investment Banking at Schroder Salomon Smith Barney, focused on the telecoms sector. 

Robert holds a MSc with Distinction in Operations Research from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Engineering from Dartmouth College.