Meet Sam Mbugua. 👇 East Africa Portfolio Director at Delta40 Venture Studio, where he backs and scales the ventures building Africa’s next generation of businesses. Sam has spent over a decade across the continent’s most serious financial institutions. Five formative years at the Capital Markets Authority, where he helped implement Kenya’s 10-year Capital Markets Master Plan. Advisory work at Open Capital Advisors. Corporate finance at Komaza. A first-class Honours graduate in Economics and Finance, and recognised by the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments in the UK as both the youngest and highest-achieving candidate in his cohort. Here’s why he matters in this room. Sam sits where capital meets founders, and he sees what most executives don’t: how a company handles data shows up in diligence, in valuation, and in whether an investor walks away. Data protection is not just a legal risk. It’s a business one. He’ll be at the Data Protection Executive Forum on 31 July....