David Monkman

David Monkman has more than 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, specialist in emerging businesses and financial analyst, including 10 years spent working in south Asia, southern Africa and western Europe. David, who holds a master’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics, has worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Asian Development Bank, the European Commission and different trade associations in other markets. He enjoys working in the public and private sectors with a diverse range of stakeholders and believes strongly in the catalytic role entrepreneurs can play in economic development.

An accomplished business executive and strategist, David was founder and director of Pakistan's SME Business Support Fund (BSF) to improve entrepreneurs' competitiveness using external business development services. He was appointed to the role by the Asian Development Bank in 2006; under his leadership, the BSF grew to four offices. As the key public figure for BSF, he was interviewed regularly by broadcast and print reporters.

Among his other consulting work, David has advised the European Union in its decision to invest in a major Bangladeshi private-sector development initiative focused on stimulating entrepreneurship and organizational effectiveness. He also has been retained by USAID to help wind down a decade’s worth of interventions to develop Zimbabwe’s small enterprise sector and was commissioned to evaluate programs operated by the South African government to support new venture development.

An experienced international entrepreneur, David has founded two companies and has participated in 10 new start-up or early-stage companies, especially in the area of financial services. While in Pakistan, he designed a franchise-based incubation model to improve development support for small firms. As founder of the South Africa-based AniCap Venture Partners, David developed three major economic development initiatives to develop trade and capacity of black-owned small enterprises. He is now a sought-after expert on small business development — for banks, corporations, private equity firms, international donors and the small businesses themselves.

David brings nine years of wide-ranging capital markets experience at seven financial services companies specializing in asset management, derivatives and foreign exchange trading, investment banking and real estate investing. More than five of those years were spent at asset management firms in key investment strategy positions, including Kaspick & Company — the leading endowment investment advisory firm in the United States. David also was hired by the Banking Association of South Africa to recommend new financial intermediation strategies to improve business lending to small enterprises. He has provided investment counsel and guidance to investment and finance committees of the Sierra Club and Project Match in the San Francisco Bay area to help invest their endowment funds.

With his considerable and wide-ranging experience, David has been a featured speaker at several international conferences addressing topics including innovation, small business finance and the importance of branding. He was a featured panelist on a Pakistani TV business talk show about corporate governance, and he served as a panelist judge during the final round of a premier business school’s "Future Entrepreneurs Business Plan Competition."

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