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Line Up

For Enquiries about the Agenda, Opportunities for Speaking and Workshop Proposals for the AFRICA FINANCIAL SUMMIT 2011,

Please contact:

Eric Yang
Conference Manager
DID: +65 6557 9207
FAX: +65 6557 9188
Email: eric@neo-edge.com

Grant Pote
Chief Operating Officer
Old Mutual African operations

Grant Pote is currently Chief Operating Officer of Old Mutual African Operations and is responsible for the financial management of African Operations as well as the implementation of its growth strategy by providing strategic and operational support to the Old Mutual group’s businesses on the continent.

Grant previously headed up Old Mutual’s retirement fund reform project and he also played a variety of finance and actuarial roles within the Old Mutual group. In addition to the 28 years of experience that he has gained during his tenure at Old Mutual, he holds a BSc (Hons) and is a Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa.

Grant is married and has 3 children and lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Grant is an avid reader of fiction, collector of old movies and armchair sportsman.

Mike Finlay
Chief Executive
RiskBusiness

Mike Finlay is the Chief Executive of RiskBusiness International Limited. He has over 20 years experience in banking and finance, having started out pricing equity derivatives on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The majority of his career has focused on risk, specifically in the middle- and back-office environment. He has been responsible for establishing new business departments in the derivatives area, restructuring international payments businesses, developing regulatory banking law and implementing risk management frameworks in both international banking firms and in large corporate’s. He developed the initial risk management framework for the Bond Market Exchange of South Africa and participated in the development of the initial foreign bank licensing requirements for Thailand, while on the insurance side, Mike worked with insurance companies in developing an operational risk methodology to support the requirements of Solvency II. More recently, Mike worked on the development of the KRI Framework underlying the KRIeX.org KRI Library, the development of the KRI Library itself and on the development of loss data consortium requirements for several national and regional banking associations and consortia, as well as leading a large multi-million Euro project in the area of risk and control self assessment.

Richard Claudet
MA, MBA
Chief Investment Officer
African Development Bank

Richard Claudet is a Chief Investment Officer in the Private Sector Infrastructure Department of the African Development Bank, responsible for originating, structuring and closing projects in sectors such as ICT, power, and transport. Richard has global experience in project finance having worked in the private sector as a developer and investor, and with various development banks including the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Asian Development Bank. Richard also has a background in ICT consulting with Deloitte Management Consultants. Richard’s qualifications include an MBA from the Wharton School, USA and an MA from Oxford University, UK in Chemistry with first class honors. His professional interests include renewable energy, climate change, “cloud computing”, and basically anything to do with science and technology. Non-work interests include contract bridge, windsurfing and e-sports.

Victor Politis
Founder and CEO
PRI Project Development LLC (www.priny.com)

Victor Politis is the Founder and CEO, PRI Project Development LLC (www.priny.com). Victor and the PRI Teams have developed and attracted financing to prototypical projects in many industry sectors around the world. PRI has taken on projects where others have failed and has completed them by innovating and creating new solutions. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc Magazine and Award for Teaching Excellence for his Project Development course at New York University. Victor is fluent in 5 languages. He lectures internationally on project development and financing and has served on the boards of several organizations. Since 2004, PRI, has made Africa a priority and has established a regional office in Lagos

Neil Crowder
CEO
Chayton Capital

Neil Crowder is the CEO of Chayton Capital. He joined Chayton Capital from Goldman Sachs where he was a Partner Managing Director. Most recently, Neil was Co-Head of European Research and Co-Chief Operating Officer of the Global Investment Research Division. Additionally, he served on the firm’s Commitments Committee. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Neil worked for American Express and St. Paul Companies gaining both direct and indirect real estate investment and workout experience. He received a BA from Knox College, an MSIA from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charterholder.

Dhesen Moodley
Associate Director of African Infrastructure Investment Managers (Proprietary) Limited; Director of African Infrastructure Investment Fund 2 GP (Proprietary) Limited
CFA

Dhesen joined Macquarie in 2005 with the responsibility of establishing the Kagiso Infrastructure Empowerment Fund (“KIEF”). He was responsible for all fund raising activities, and KIEF reached financial close in September 2006 with capital commitments of ZAR650 million. He was appointed CEO of KIEF’s fund manager in 2006, taking on responsibility for deal origination, analysis, negotiation and execution of KIEF’s investments. KIEF has made 6 investments to date, including a power station, a telecommunications company, a wind farm, and two toll road assets.

Dhesen is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), and a member of the CFA Institute, as well as a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).

Ewald F H Müller
Senior Executive Standards at SAICA and a Summit TV anchor

Ewald Müller is currently Senior Executive: Standards at SAICA and a Summit TV anchor.

He is a qualified CA(SA) who has extensive experience spanning the banking industry, investment analysis, Investor Relations and financial media. His passion lies in promoting financial literacy to users of financial and related information and developing the understanding of strategic and sustainable development issues.

He is an accomplished public speaker who has spoken at events such as the M&A and Corporate Governance Conferences in Johannesburg, the Stern Stewart International Finance Summit and UNEP Global Round Table in Cape Town and the World Congress of Accountants in Malaysia.

Memberships
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants
King Committee on Corporate Governance
Institute of Directors in Southern Africa
Investment Analysts Society of South Africa
Consultative Group to Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards on Accounting and Reporting (ISAR) of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Allan Kilavuka
Africa Finance leader – Energy division
General Electric

Allan Kilavuka Inuani currently is the Africa Finance leader of General Electric Company – Power Generation Services. He responsible for financial risk assessment, financial reporting, controllership and compliance in 11 African countries where GE Energy operates.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Accounting in 1995 from University of Nairobi.

Upon graduation He joined the Deloitte Audit Training Program and spent three years in as audit trainee with assignments in Manufacturing, Technology, Services and Agriculture. In 1998 he qualified as a Certified Public Accountant and was promoted to audit senior in charge and worked in this role until 2000.

From 2000-2005 he was of audit manager and then manager in charge of Business Process Outsourcing at Deloitte.

In 2005 he moved to General Electric Company (GE) to lead GE’s Africa Shared Services organization, responsible for more than 49 professionals in Africa, delivering local expertise to all GE businesses in the areas of Finance, Tax and Human Resources.

Isaac Tettey
GM Planning & Budgeting
SIC Insurance

Mr. Tettey is a Development Economist, Operational Research and Financial Analyst. He is the General Manager responsible for Corporate Planning, Research and Budgeting at the SIC Insurance Company Limited. He practises in private as a Corporate Analyst and Management Consultant in Finance, Investment and Strategy. He is also a seasoned administrator. His specialisation is in the areas of economic analysis, operational research analysis, feasibility studies, strategic and business planning, corporate re-engineering, finance and investment. He is deeply involved in providing business advisory services to corporate clients.

Mr. Tettey served as one of the Lead Advisors who carried out forensic audits in the operations of SSNIT and Ghana Airways in 2002. He has developed feasibility reports and business plans for several companies in real estates development, insurance, software development, publishing, diamond polishing, quarry mining, textile and garment manufacturing, soap manufacturing, and college setup. He developed the business plan for the GCNet and CMS systems currently being used by the CEPS in all of Ghana’s ports of entry. Between 1996 and 1998, Mr. Tettey carried out several monitoring and evaluation assignments for Ministry of Finance/USAID/UNDP micro-projects across the country. He has also facilitated several courses in strategic planning and management, budgeting and motivation. Mr. Tettey serves as a Director on the Boards of several companies. He has worked for a number of companies both in Ghana and in the United Kingdom.

Lihor Spazzoli

Lihor Spazzoli is a partner PwC’s National Technical – Accounting Consulting Services division, and has extensive experience on the practical application of IFRS, specialising on business combinations, consolidation, associates and joint venture accounting. Lihor provides technical support to both clients and audit teams. Lihor has been with the firm for 19 years, of which 5 years have been in his current role.

Lihor joined the firm in audit, and assumed the role of technical manager in 1996. In 1999 Lihor was promoted to audit partner, retaining his technical role. His clients where from a variety of sectors, mainly listed. He then moved to PwC Corporate Finance and Transaction services in 2001, dealing with mergers and acquisitions, listings, valuations and due diligences. Before joining the firm, he worked in the construction industry as a financial manager for 10 years. Lihor is a member of the PwC IFRS Advisory group, and also presents internal and external IFRS training.

Parmi Natesan

Parmi joined the Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IoDSA) in November 2010 as Senior Governance Specialist within their Centre for Corporate Governance.

Parmi is a qualified Chartered Accountant, registered with the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants, with BCom (cum laude) and BCom (honours) degrees. After serving articles at KPMG she joined their technical department, specialising in corporate goverance, where she held the position of Senior Manager.

Parmi’s role at the IoDSA includes:

• Compiling, reviewing and maintaining King III Practice Notes, briefings, fact sheets and other technical guidelines;
• Responding to technical queries on corporate governance;
• Overseeing the board appraisals function;
• Assisting with IoDSA course presentation as well as content review and update;
• Client presentations and other speaking arrangements;
• Representing the IoDSA on various Forums.

Guido Boysen

Guido Boysen is the Chief Executive Officer of GroFin Africa. He has experience in managing investment portfolios in South Asia and East Africa and has worked as a management consultant and business analyst in Nicaragua, Lesotho, UK, Singapore, USA and the Netherlands before joining GroFin. He has served on the boards of a number of banks, private equity funds and institutions in Africa. He holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia University, New York and a Master of business economics degree from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Guido, Shaheen and their little daughter reside in South Africa.

DR. EMMANUEL MOORE ABOLO
Chief Risk Officer
Nigeria Import Export Bank

DR. EMMANUEL MOORE ABOLO is the Chief Risk Officer of Nigeria Import Export Bank. He also act as the President of Risk Management Association of Nigeria

Dr Abolo has extensive experience in strategy crafting and execution spanning over 8 years. He is a business development expert with ability to link risk to corporate strategy. He has equally covered the three critical areas of risk and beyond – Credit, Market and Operational risk with robust and vast knowledge of Basel II Implementation and the COSO framework. An international scholar, a respected and tested economist, a prolific writer with strong passion for value creation. His experience cuts across the academia, public and private sector and journalism.

Raj Gandhi
FCCA, FCT, MioD

Raj is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Association of Corporate Treasurers and a member of the Institute of Directors. He has over 25 years of experience in treasury, finance and internal audit with significant international travel.

He has worked for complex multinational groups and SMEs in the financial services, oil & gas and retail sectors and is known for being pragmatic, approachable and patient. He is an effective communicator with a relaxed style who is able to convey complex concepts in an easy-to-understand manner.

Raj is a course leader for the IoD on their course on the role of finance director and runs their chartered director risk management workshop. For the ACCA, he lectures on interpreting accounts and reporting relevant information.

He regularly speaks for the ACCA and was invited to a speaker panel, including the ACCA President, to debate on how accountants create and manage value in organisations. Raj is a member of a group of risk and governance experts in the UK and regularly contributes to ACCA discussion papers.

As well as being an interim management executive, Raj sits on the ACT exam board, the audit and risk committee at Thames Valley University and is a visiting lecturer for the University of Hertfordshire.

Raj is based near London in the UK.

John Cairns
Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities – Financial Markets Research
Rand Merchant Bank

John Cairns grew up in SA and received a post graduate degree in economics at UCT but spent 10 years between 1997 and 2007 working overseas, in London and Singapore. Before joining Rand Merchant Bank in 2007 he worked for the Asian branch of the Bank for International Settlements. Between 2002 and 2006 he was Head of Research Asia Pacific for Ideaglobal in Singapore.

John has extensive knowledge of emerging market economics, fixed income and currencies. His current speciality is the foreign exchange market, particularly the rand. You will see John widely quoted in the media, including on major business television channels. John meets regularly with senior clients throughout the world. He is responsible for all publications on the currency markets, and is best known for writing the Daily Insight, co-published with Nema Ramkhelawan first thing every morning.

Tim Marsland
Investment Director
BiFM Capital, Botswana

Tim Marsland is the Investment Director of BiFM Capital, Botswana. He began his carreer in 1990 in finance as a journalist with Business Day. In 1994, he moved to Standard Merchant Bank, handling international clients in the fixed income market. In 1996, he joined First National Bank and was appointed Chief Dealer: Fixed Income. In 1997, the opportunity to establish ABN-Amro as a primary dealer in South African government bonds arose and Tim was appointed head of fixed income of the South African operations. A stint followed with the Brait Group which included structuring debt deals in various African countries. Tim, in 2005, together with Rhys Carr, established Capital Management African and its investment arm Bifm Capital in Botswana. Bifm Capital fast became the pre-eminent debt house in Botswana, with over P1 billion in balance sheet assets and P2 billion under management. Bifm Capital focuses regionally and seeks to add value to its clients by presenting financing and structured solutions using developed market techniques but tailored to match the circumstances of the particular market.

Steve Williams 

Steve Williams has over 20 years experience in the Financial Services sector in Ghana, Middle Africa, Middle East, and Europe, and the Extractive Industry sector in Ghana. 15 years out of the 20 years was spent in Africa markets. He is a specialist in Treasury Management, Foreign Exchange Markets, Asset Liability Management, Liquidity Management, Balance Sheet Advisory and Fixed Income Trading.

He has held various positions in Standard Chartered Bank, such as Auditor, Trainer, and Treasurer in various presence countries; Process Re-Engineer; Director, Fixed Income Trading; and an Executive Director of the Ghana Operations. He also worked with the then Ashanti Goldfields Company Limited as its Head of Treasury, and with the Ecobank Group as its Group Treasurer, managing the treasuries of 30 countries balance sheets within the Group. A position held until December 2010.

He is currently the Chairman & CEO of The Treasury Warehouse Company Ltd, a specialized Treasury Management Consulting firm based in Accra, Ghana.

He holds an MBA (Finance) Degree from the University of Ghana, Business School, and a BSc. (Hons.) Chemical Engineering Degree from the KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana. (formerly, the University of Science & Technology)