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EMBA Profiles
Class of January 2020
Updated: 21 February 2020
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Following 19 years in the Energy Sector, Alaa recently
joined Egis international as Chief Operations Officer, Middle
East business unit based in Dubai, UAE.
Egis International, an engineering group working in the
fields of infrastructure consulting, engineering and
operations; offering solutions and know-how expertise in
the areas of urban development, sustainable city
Alaa Abu Siam construction, buildings, water, the environment and energy.
Jordanian The group is also involved in project financing, tolling, road
and airport operations. In his role Alaa oversees the
Languages: Arabic company’s ongoing operations in the Middle East, develops
and implements overall business strategy geared towards
Chief Operations Officer – flawless execution and customers satisfaction, ensures
Middle East Business Unit, Egis effective business resources and planning required to
International, Dubai profitably deliver existing and upcoming projects as well as
drive extensive and sustainable regional growth.
Sector: Engineering
Professor Alder serves as the inaugural President of Ensign
College of Public Health in Kpong, Ghana. He oversees
academic and operational aspects of this institution, which
is focused on education, research and innovation, and
engaged service that supports development by integrating
improving community health and entrepreneurial business
Stephen Alder
development. He holds a faculty appointment at the
American
University of Utah [US] where he serves as Special Advisor
on West Africa. He is trained as a health ecologist.
President, Ensign College of
Public Health, Ghana
Sector: Health
Jon recently joined Golden Star as part of the leadership
team which is tasked with defining and delivering business
transformation. With over a decade in the mining sector Jon
has a wealth of experience leading large multinational
teams through complex cultural and technical
transformation with a proven track record of delivering
operational and commercial results.
Jon has strategic expertise in leading large diverse teams
Jon Almond
in emerging markets, government and community relations,
Australian
strategic planning and cultural transformation. Additionally,
Operations Director, Golden Star
he has technical expertise in mine planning, business
Resources, Ghana improvement, project planning and execution, feasibility
studies, financial modelling, operational readiness planning
Sector: Mining and underground mining operations.
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Marianna's role and responsibility includes leading and
directing finance and accounting team, which includes
budging, group accounting, financial analysis and
accounting functions. Marianna coordinates cooperation
Marianna Amirbekyan with External auditors, IMF, Ministry of finance and other
Armenian stakeholders, as well as mentoring development of the
finance team
Languages: Russian
CFO, Central Bank of Armenia,
Armenia
Sector: Financial sector
Milorad's responsibilities include executing and managing
private equity investments. He manages a team of junior
and senior investment professionals throughout the
investment cycle, which includes the acquisition of shares
Milorad Anđelić in public or private companies, implementation of value
Serbian creation plans, and sale of shares in portfolio
companies. Milorad has served on the Supervisory Boards
Languages: Serbian, Polish, of multiple portfolio companies the Fund has successfully
Spanish exited from, and is currently Chairman of the Supervisory
Board in two portfolio companies.
Partner, Abris Capital Partners,
Poland
Sector: Private Equity
Fawaz directs aggressive growth and business
development across Northern Europe & Russia for ABB. He
establishes the region’s strategic vision and executes
operations for customer acquisition. Fawaz identifies
market opportunities from initial prospecting, qualifying, bid
development, contract negotiations and handover to
Fawaz Aslam-Pervez
execution teams. He devises robust commercial
British/Pakistani
frameworks for channel partnerships across the region,
leading opportunity pursuit and business expansion. Fawaz
Languages: Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi,
is also the founder of APCO Energy - a start-up specialising
Urdu
in B2B eCommerce that enables businesses to connect
seamlessly through a unified marketplace.
Business Development Manager
- Northern Europe & Russia,
ABB, UK; Founder, APCO Energy
Sector: Energy, Technology
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Gaurav co-started Ripple's Dubai office and is working on
growing Customer Success delivery team. He is
responsible for managing customer delivery teams and
drives the company's KPI of increasing the payments
network. Gaurav project manages multiple projects and
Gaurav Bajaj
onboard Ripple clients to RippleNet. He is responsible for
British
the timely delivery of projects, maintains stakeholders
internally and externally. As the organisation grows, Gaurav
Languages: Hindi
works in expanding capabilities and building relationships
with the client.
Sr. Project Manager, Ripple,
United Arab Emirates
Sector: FinTech
Responsible for technical support and documentation for all
products and services that fall under a Product Line;
Jose Armando Ballesteros
ensuring all activities related to technical support through
Medina
the InTouch (Knowledge Management Business System)
Colombian
system are maintained at the required level.
Languages: Spanish
InTouch Manager, Schlumberger,
France
Sector: Oil & Gas Industry
David is an airline pilot for Delta Air Lines and currently flies
the Boeing 757 and 767 in domestic and international
markets. Additionally, he is a Major in the US Air Force
David Brill Reserves specializing in strategic reconnaissance. Prior to
American leaving for the private sector he served as a F-15 and U-2
pilot.
Airline Pilot / Military Officer US
Air Force Reserves, Delta Air Lines,
USA
Sector: Aviation / Defense
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Mwape is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Treasfin
Limited, a company in financial advisory services domiciled
in the Republic of Zambia. The activities include the
provision of corporate finance services, investment
activities, and a range of accounting and tax services to the
Mwape L Bwanali private and public sector. He manages the day-to-day
Zambian operations of our company and sets out the company
strategy fulfillment in the short and medium term.
Director, Treasfin Limited, Zambia
Sector: Financial Consultancy
C Paulo is a Portfolio Manager at Resource Capital Funds, a
leading Mining and Metals focused Private Equity firm. He
is currently focused on sourcing new investments, leading
investment strategies, coordinating due diligence efforts,
structuring and negotiating transactions, actively managing
portfolio investments and formulating and enacting exit
strategies. He has been with the firm for over 11 years and
has worked in the Denver (current location), Toronto and
Santiago offices. He was responsible for setting up the
Santiago office in 2014 and performed a deal sourcing role
in the broader Latin America region from 2014 through
2017. Paulo has an extensive industry network and has
Paul Carrêlo
made investments across the Americas, Europe and Africa.
British/Portuguese
He also represents the firm as a Non-Executive Director for
First Bauxite LLC, a portfolio company with bauxite
Portfolio Manager, Resource
operations in Guyana.
Capital Funds, USA
In addition, Paulo is actively involved (Finance/Strategy) in
his family’s coffee business, Little Owl Coffee, which
Sector: Private Equity / Mining and
sources and roasts green coffee with a growing number of
Metals
retail outlets in the Denver area.
Rupert is MD of a marketing research, strategy and theory
consultancy. They help organisations with brand and
audience strategy, marketing effectiveness and creative
development. As MD of a consultancy, hisrole is a blend of
business development, organisational strategy, team
development and working on the front-line on our most
Rupert Carter significant clients. He is more effective externally as a
British consultant, than internally with the business - hence the
desire to do the MBA.
Managing Director, Consumer
Insight, UK
Sector: Marketing
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Julie is responsible for leading the Tax Function within the
Group which is ultimately owned by a Sovereign Wealth
fund and works to align the Group to the rapidly changing
tax landscape by staying ahead of the curve. As well as
this, she works on M&A deals ensuring optimal tax
structures are identified, interpreting and applying
International Tax Laws together with maintaining tax
Julie Cunningham
compliance. She directs the preparation of Transfer Pricing
British
and recently rolled out across the organization the recently
introduced UAE VAT law. Julie continuously supports the
Head of Global Tax, Emirates
Board and Executive committee on all transactions which
Global Aluminium, United Arab
lead to tax consequence, identifying key issues and move
Emirates
forward strategy.
Sector: Tax
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Head of strategy and M&A for Datatec, a listed technology
solutions and consulting business with operations in 50
countries.
Marco is responsible for development of corporate strategy
and leading merger and acquisition initiatives across the
Group’s divisions, which includes sourcing, appraisal and
diligence of investments and acquisition targets, valuation
Marco de Lima and transaction structuring, legal contract negotiation, and
Portuguese integration planning.
Marco has overseen over 50 company acquisitions across
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish 20 countries for Datatec, primarily in the information
technology and communications space (networking, cloud,
Head of Strategy & Corporate security and collaboration) as well telecom strategy
Finance, Datatec, Spain consulting market.
Marco represents Datatec on its divisional executive boards
Sector: Information Technology and advisory councils.
Services
Binta works for Blakeney Management, the leading UK based
fund investing in Africa and the Middle East. She is the Fund
Manager responsible for investments in Francophone Africa
(WAEMU region, Morocco and Tunisia). She leads the
investment efforts (strategy) in the telecom sector across
Africa and the Middle East. In addition, she is the lead
manager for the social impact fund portfolio where we are
considering a target launch date within the next three years.
She is also playing an active role in their transition from a
Binta Drave standard equity fund to a fund for which environmental, social
Malian/British and governance (ESG) factors have been integrated into the
investment process.
Languages: Russian Her daily routine involves regular meetings discussing
financials with CEOs, CFOs, IR Managers with our portfolio
Fund Manager, Blakeney companies, liaising with clients and helping with the fund's
marketing effort. In addition, she researches companies,
Management, UK
gathers the required information in order to make financial
recommendations and decisions on investment.
Sector: Finance
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Defense technology and data consultant with 16+years
experience leading and managing teams in dynamic
environments. Currently, advising European-based US
Military Forces and NATO Allies to tackle tactical and
operational issues. Advises C-suite and other Executives
on emerging analytical technologies, enabling precise and
Jaroslaw Dyhouse rapid decision making. Develops tailored streamline
American solutions to analysts on workflow methodologies, reducing
analytical timelines. Emerging international real estate
Languages: Polish investor, applying tactical analytical experiences to gain a
competitive market edge.
Technology Consultant, Booz
Allen Hamilton, Germany
Sector: Defense
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Samuel is responsible for design and delivery of electrical
and control systems solutions for oil and gas collection
systems. He provides solutions which meet client’s
deliverables in the Subsea Production Controls portfolio,
utilizing his technical expertise to solve complex problems.
Develops and executes objectives that meet both short-
term and long-term business goals. A Chartered Engineer,
Samuel has extensive experience in large multi-disciplinary
project delivery across the oil and gas industry. Leading
Samuel Ekaette multi-disciplinary teams by coaching and providing
British/Nigerian technical direction to meet project deliverables. He engages
with all relevant stakeholders to drive transformational
Lead Electrical Engineer, Baker changes such as strategy, operational and process
Hughes, UK improvements.
Sector: Oil and Gas
Sarah Emerson is a trusted C-suite and board advisor.
Serving nearly 20 years in global leadership roles for
commercial, public, and non-profit organizations, she is a
business ‘all-rounder’. Sarah capably develops and
delivers robust visions, strategies, and inclusive teams,
while also “sweating the details” to deploy sustainable
technical solutions, operational improvements, and critical
Sarah Emerson governance practices. After starting her career as an
American entrepreneur, Sarah joined a ‘Big-4’ to consult financial
services firms. Most recently, she has created and
Languages: Spanish leveraged cross-sector partnerships to help empower
vulnerable populations through the introduction of
Global Director & Advisor, Start- innovative programs, products, and systems.
up businesses and not-for-profits
Sector: Innovation/Growth
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Active in the Strategy and Operational Excellence group,
Peter is tasked with ensuring the competitiveness of the
Bayer Crop Science Active Ingredient Production Sites
Peter Erri through chemical process optimization, continuous
Danish improvement of workflows, and people development. This
includes driving operational excellence via implementation
Languages: Danish, German, of onePSS, the Bayer production system and serving as an
Spanish in-house consultant for opportunity assessments. Peter
holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.
Manager, Bayer AG - Crop
Science Division, Germany
Sector: Chemical manufacturing
F Stephen is a Financial Controller for WorldRemit Ltd, an
international money transfer business that has grown to
serve four million customers, using 90 different currencies,
across 150 countries worldwide. As Financial Controller,
Stephen is responsible for reviewing and maintaining the
accounting records for 13 entities across APAC and North
America. His role is heavily focused on project work aimed
at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the wider
finance team.
Prior to this position, Stephen worked as a company director
Stephen Fahy
and nominated compliance officer for Daytona Capital
South African
Management, a UK-based fintech company that drives
collaboration and connectivity between Mobile Network
Financial Controller, WorldRemit
Operators (MNOs), banks and retailers across the world.
Ltd, UK
Stephen is a qualified chartered accountant registered in
both South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Sector: Financial Services
Suad is responsible for overseeing the administration,
operations, budget, and the programs and strategic plan of
the organization. She is responsible for managing overall
Suad Fakih
operations, recruiting staff, fundraising, developing new
Colombian
revenue streams and networks to support Fundacion
Capital's mission.
Languages: French, Spanish
Country Manager, Fundacion
Capital, Colombia
Sector: Non for Profit
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Rastislav’s roles included CEO and CFO positions in large
public sector infrastructure entities as well as banking and
consulting. Rastislav is focused on the CEE region and his
experience ranges from managing complex projects,
debt restructurings, deal origination, infrastructure project
finance to managing shareholder and stakeholder
Rastislav Gajarsky relationships. His corporate background provided him with
Slovak a chance to lead large teams and gain experience in
strategy, financial management and operations.
Languages: Slovak
CFO, BVS, Slovakia
Sector: Utility, Infrastructure
Based in London, Amelia is a Senior Director in Kantar's
Consulting Division and Global lead of the Strategy practice.
Responsible for the development and service of Kantar's
base of key client relationships, Amelia's work spans
business and category strategy, brand strategy, innovation,
Amelia Gandar brand experience, go-to-market and organisational
New Zealander / Australian capability. In addition, Amelia is the custodian of the
Strategy practice for Consulting globally, with a particular
Senior Director and Global focus on the development and evolution of the offer.
Strategy Practice Lead,
Consulting Division, Kantar, UK
Sector: Marketing
In this new role, he is driving a complete redesign of retail
operations in India. I am reporting directly to GM Retail
India.
This includes Category Management transformation,
spanning Promotion, Merchandising, Supply Chain and
Operational standards, in line with Shell's strategic priorities
and ambition in the region. He also set up and streamlined
Customer and Market Insights analytics. This initiative was
meant to build the basis for the implementation of most
Alexander Goncharov
advanced digital marketing technologies and remote
Russian
marketing control solutions in accordance with Shell's
global best practice.
Languages: Russian
He was also tasked with launching a Private Label business
in India. This is a highly challenging task as everything he
Non-Fuel Retail Implementation
has to implement is from scratch. Moreover, he is
Project Manager India, Shell,
introducing a completely new culture of getting things done.
India
It is safe to say that this can transform the retail business in
India, as local personnel have not been exposed to the new
Sector: Retail
practices they are bringing in.
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Luke is engaged in entrepreneurial projects in real estate
and finance. This has included roles as a co-founder and
managing director, as well as offering strategic advice to
founders across various industries in Europe and
Australasia. After effectively navigating an early-stage start-
up through major industry volatility and uncertainty, Luke
stepped back from his executive roles to pursue his interest
Luke Graham
in postgraduate study. Aside from the EMBA, Luke has
Australian
studied economics, change management, psychology, and
commerce. His work in organisational behaviour,
Research Consultant and Small
entrepreneurship, demographics and property economics
Business Advisor, Property
has been published by various international mediums. His
Analysis Australia (and various),
hobbies include writing, hiking, skiing, and culturally-
Australia + UK
immersive travel.
Sector: Real Estate
Qi is working as a global strategy UX architect in Volvo
Group. She works on the global projects, collaborating with
design studios in other countries. She plans and develops
Qi Guo sustainable solutions across brands and business areas.
Chinese She also works on the improvement of work process in
global context, and she is in the part of global strategic work
Languages: Mandarin for the future business opportunities.
Global Strategy UX Architect,
Volvo Group, Sweden
Sector: Automobile
Karthik is the Cloud and Infrastructure Pod lead in UKI for
Accenture's Resources operating unit. CloudPod underpins
Accenture’s significant growth plans around how we go to
market with our MAG partners (Microsoft, Amazon and
Google). CloudPod augments our best cloud leaders,
evangelists, commercial experts and our enterprise
architects to focus on Cloud based Transformation deals
Karthikeyan Gurumoorthy that drive maximum value for our clients from cloud
British solutions.
CloudPod allows them to pool their collective expertise and
Languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu play a key role in developing compelling and clear strategies
and industry propositions and build the business. It focuses
Associate Director, Accenture, on driving the latest innovation and thought leadership in
UK addition to innovate deal creation and client engagement. It
is the single stop shop for ‘all things Cloud related’.
Sector: Information Technology11
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Being Part of the Advanced analytics department working
with the data science, market research and growth hack
squad to optimize the business value of each analytical
model, enabling a better customer lifetime value. Act as
analytical translator between the data science and business
Hira Hafeez
to optimize the spending and gain market share by
Pakistani
performing Gap analytics. Providing analytical insights to
take better decisions across the organization by narrating
Languages: Urdu
the data driven story.
Product Owner Segmentation
and Decision Sciences, Telenor
Sweden, Sweden
Sector: Telecommunications
Sean is leveraging his technical experience in automotive
R&D to launch a new electric vehicle company in Canada,
focused on luxury performance with electric powertrain. As
a co-founder of Haze Automotive, Sean is currently building
a vision car to be launched Las Vegas in 2021.
Prior to his current entrepreneur ambitions, Sean led the
technology roadmap at Karma Automotive, a luxury EV
Sean Mario Hazaray automaker in Southern California. He initiated a number of
Canadian/American concept vehicles with tech partner such as Amazon,
Blackberry, and Panasonic. These one-off collaborations
Languages: Mandarin showcase the potential of cutting-edge technology (such as
facial recognition, autonomous driving) and inspired
Product Management, Karma production specification in future vehicle platforms. Prior to
Automotive, USA Karma, Sean led the UX strategy at Subaru, culminated in
the award winning ’17 Impreza.
Sector: Automotive
Jessica works in marketing at Pinterest, helping to reach
key audiences and drive comprehension for the business.
She recently created and led Pinterest's user storytelling
Jessica Henry initiative, which supported everything from sales
American enablement to executive engagement, investor relations
and the company's IPO.
Languages: Spanish
Lead, Editorial Content, Pinterest,
USA
Sector: Consumer technology12
Thami has a range of responsibilities as CEO including
setting of Strategic Direction and leadership to the
organisation with Strategic Planning and Implementation.
He must oversee Operations and entire value chain of the
organisation, overseeing the development of Risk
Management Strategy for the Entity whilst also maintaining
customer and stakeholder relations. Thami must: Lead and
design development of policies, practices and performance
relative to operational excellence; Lead organisation
maximizes opportunities to achieve sustainable growth for
new and existing customers; Ensure sound performance of
Thamsanqa Basil Hlongwa
the organisation; Increase funding collaboration and
South African
mobilization of funds for sustainable growth and maintain
and uphold governance framework for the organisation.
Languages: Zulu
This Embeds a strong risk, compliance and governance
framework and engages contractual and non-contractual
CEO, Umgeni Water, South Africa
stakeholders.Thami provides strategic support to the
executive and inspire them to deliver on key performance
Sector: Utilities - Water Services
areas as he ensures the transformation of the organisation
in line with national policy and strategy.
Jake is a banking and finance lawyer based in Perth,
Australia. Jake co-manages a team of 8 lawyers which
advise clients on structured finance transactions in the
mining and commodities industry. Jake has particular
Jake Howard expertise in mining project finance in emerging markets,
Australian principally Africa and has worked extensively throughout
the continent. Jake is currently growing his practice in
Languages: French climate and carbon related transactions. Jake spent
several years working out of the firm’s London and Paris
Partner, Banking & Finance, offices.
Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia
Sector: Legal / Mining &
Commodities
Kayley is a seasoned brand building and retail business
expert from Greater China. She had served P&G Marketing
for 9 years, leading multi-million businesses of famous
brands like Pampers, Crest and Gillette across Hong Kong,
Taiwan and Mainland China. She recently moved to
Sze Man (Kayley) Hui commercial real estate industry as the Assistant General
Chinese (Hong Kong) Manager (AGM) of K11 art-mall in Guangzhou China.
Kayley leads several income-generation departments of the
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin art-mall, including Tenant business management team,
External partnership team and Art-merchandizing team. As
Assistant General Manager, K11 the core leadership team member, Kayley also partners with
Concept Limited (New World the GM to make all major decisions regarding the mall P&L,
Development Company Limited), including vision setting, future strategies, organization
China restructuring and risk management.
Sector: FMCG/Retail/Commercial
real estate13
Imran is a Director of IH Foods Ltd, which is one of the
leading fruit and vegetable dicing specialists, and a leading
supplier of whole fruit and vegetables to the UK market.
All of their products can be found in the ingredients of food
items used by many large British food retailers such as
Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose and Marks & Spencer.
Imran Hussain
As a company director his role is to both implement and
British
safeguard, an effective company strategy, to deliver good
quality products at competitive prices and provide an
Languages: Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
excellent service to their existing and prospective
customers.
Director, IH Foods LTD, UK
Sector: Food
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In her current role as Director of Global Medical Affairs,
Bushra provides strategic direction to commercial and
medical operations for the Internal Medicine therapy area.
She is responsible for development of global operating
plans, managing medical budgets, oversight of global
Bushra Ilyas campaigns, communication of scientific data at European
British/Malaysian and US congresses and supports regulatory filings.
Languages: Malay, Hindi, Urdu
Medical Director, Pfizer Inc., UK
Sector: Healthcare
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Leading strategy, policy, regulation and corporate affairs
teams in the UK. Global government affairs advisor to
company HQ in Singapore, covering multiple markets
worldwide.
Michael Jenner Previous experience includes UK Diplomatic Service, EU
British and UK Energy policy, FTSE 100 and private equity.
Director of Strategy and Policy,
Sembcorp, UK
Sector: Energy14
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Benjamin currently owns and runs three Eden Park clothing
franchises based in Clermont-Ferrand, Toulouse and
Bordeaux France. He is a rugby consultant and
Benjamin Kayser commentator for both French and British Television.
French Historical investor and board member of Brand and
Celebrities, digital marketing specialist, leader of influencer
Languages: French, Spanish marketing in France.
Shop Owner and TV Sports
Consultant, Self employed Sport
26 Communication, France
Sector: Retail, media and sports
Naveen is an FMCG innovation professional with
experience from Fortune 500 companies, including
PepsiCo and Unilever. He has worked in a variety of R&D
leadership roles ranging from long-term, five to ten year
cutting edge, academic style research to short-term, six
months to one year ready to deliver consumer goods
innovations. He’s the lead inventor on a patent, has
published in the AICHe Journal, and has driven global
launches of innovations.
His passion focuses on human, environmental, and
economic sustainability and his goals are to achieve a
sustainable world through activism, business acumen, and
Naveen Konduru
technical mastery. As Sustainability Manager at Unilever,
American
he works towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
He has led the delivery innovations that reduce
Sustainability Manager, Unilever,
environmental impact and improve the health and well-
USA
being of the global community. This includes innovations to
eliminate dairy and sugar ingredients that release carbon to
Sector: Consumer Goods
the environment and contribute to obesity and heart
disease, and packages that are recycle-ready and are
composed of recycled content.
Anna is currently working on an accounting outsourcing and
turnaround consulting start-up company with her two
partners. Her responsibilities include development of hiring
strategies, selection, supervision and training of accounting
teams to work with clients, pricing, all operational matters.
Besides, she provides consulting on financial modelling to
several technology start-ups at the pre-seed stage. Anna
has recently resigned from an international technology
Anna Kozlova consulting / software development company after nine
Ukrainian years in EVP Finance / Director of Finance position. In her
role, Anna was responsible for running finance, reporting
Languages: German, Russian, and accounting activities through the multinational group of
Ukranian companies (including such jurisdictions USA, UK, Ireland,
Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, China). Anna's previous
COO, Co-Founder, Consulting background also includes four years with the assurance
start-up, Ukraine department of EY Ukraine. Anna is a Fellow member of the
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
Sector: Consulting15
Adenike is the founder and CEO of OAK-Heirs Limited; a
financial advisory and impact investments firm. Through
Financial Advisory - she drives the origination and execution
of financial advisory transactions including capital raising,
M&A advisory, growth strategy implementation for client
companies. Through her Impact investments - she sources,
structures and executes OAK-Heirs' investments into high
Adenike Kuti
growth; high impact companies (gender lens focus) that
Nigerian
provide goods and services to emerging market consumers
in East and West Africa. She also works with partner
Languages: Yoruba
portfolio companies on implementing strategic value add
initiatives for growth sustainability. She also manages the
CEO, OAK-Heirs Limited, Nigeria
day to day operations of the company.
Sector: Finance and Investments
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Currently a Product Management Lead at Innowatts Inc., an
energy data analytics company based in Houston, US.
Leading multiple teams of product managers, data
engineers and developers across US and India. Main
focuses in Retail Energy Risk Management, Pricing &
Costing and Scheduling software products.
Previously an Energy Executive with more than 13 years in
various positions at Macquarie Group in US and Hong
Kong, including Senior Vice President in the Commodity
Pok Ho Bosco Lai Solutions team which provides asset based loans, working
Canadian/Hong Kong capital, trade and project finance, energy supply facilities
and a full suite of bespoke risk management & hedging
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin products.
Passionate entrepreneur as a co-owner of multiple
Project Management Lead, ventures, including an energy efficiency company and a
Innowatts Inc., USA diverse music learning center in Hong Kong, and a music
production studio in Canada.
Sector: Structured Finance &
Energy Markets
The role of National Lead - Strategy and Transformation
focuses on providing: National Service leadership and
excellence; Presenting the face of the service to the market;
Siobhan Lamb Developing the three-year strategy with talent identification,
Australian technology investment and growth in new regions; and
Pursuing service excellence in all bid methodologies and
National Lead - Strategy and project delivery.
Transformation, RPS, Australia
Sector: Strategic Advisory16
Leading an Impact Leveraged Buyout (iLBO) of one of
Africa's most iconic fashion companies, realigning the
Chid Liberty
supply chain for impact, and expanding into new
Liberian
geographies.
Languages: French
CEO, Made In Africa, USA
Sector: Social Entrepreneurship /
Impact Investing
Marisa has been a program manager supporting the US
Federal Government and Intelligence Community for over a
decade. She started out as a Military Intelligence Officer in
the US Army right out of college and used that as a stepping
stone in her career to become a program manager focusing
on technology for the US Government. Currently, she is
managing an airborne hyper-spectral imaging program
worth over $70M at QinetiQ. This research and
development program uses cutting edge technology from
researchers across the US to bring the most accurate
Marisa Lightfoot detection capability to the eyes of the warfighter. As the lead
American program manager for one of the company's largest
programs, she has generated and influenced many of the
Program Manager, QinetiQ, USA programmatic principles, processes and best practices for
the company to follow.
Sector: Defence Technology
Chrissy Liu is Director, Volvo Car Group, managing global
commercial strategy development, and driving commercial
transformation in headquarters, regions and markets. Prior
to Volvo Cars, Chrissy had more than 8 years of strategy
consulting experience, specialises in Strategy, Business
Chrissy Liu Transformation, Change Management, Project and
Chinese Program Management. She has extensive experience in
the Automotive Industry, and has also worked with industry-
Languages: Mandarin leading clients in Consumer Products & Retail,
Manufacturing, Technology, Public Sector, and Life Science
Director, Global Commercial & Healthcare.
Transformation, Volvo Car Group,
Sweden
Sector: Automotive17
Thandi has line management as well as thought leadership
responsibilities within the Product Development team at
Allan Gray, Africa's largest privately owned investment
management company. The core of her role is to lead high
impact projects across the retail business - both strategic
Thandiwe Luzuka thinking items as well as implementation initiatives that
South African ensure the product offering remains client-centric,
competitive and socially relevant.
Product Development Manager,
Allan Gray, South Africa
Sector: Financial services
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Scobie is a commodity and structured finance specialist with
a background in law. He runs a structured finance team
with coverage of the Americas. His team is responsible for
the origination, structuring and execution of physical and
financial structured commodities transactions. The team
Scobie Mackay
covers the commodity spectrum but have a particular focus
Australian
on energy. Scobie has a passion for climate and carbon
finance. He is currently leading the build-out of the carbon
Languages: Spanish
offset finance business and is the Commodities & Global
Markets representative on Macquarie’s Global Green
Managing Director, Commodities
Committee.
Markets & Finance, Macquarie,
USA
Sector: Finance
He is Group Controller and Deputy CFO at Network Rail, a
£9bn turnover company, within the UK public sector, which
owns and operates the national rail network. He leads all
group level finance activities and am head of the finance
function.
His accountabilities include statutory and management
reporting, business planning, treasury, tax, insurance &
claims, business wide accounting shared services,
business wide governance risk and assurance framework,
finance systems & processes and central directorate
Paul Marshall
business partnering.
British
He is a board director of a number of subsidiaries including
Network Rail Finance, a financing vehicle with £29bn
Group Controller, Network Rail,
borrowing and derivatives; Network Rail Development,
UK
managing property joint venture investments; and Network
Rail Insurance, which carries company, supply chain and
Sector: Rail
customer risks.18
Lindsay is a Management Consulting contracting services
primarily to the mining industry. He is currently engaged by
a major international gold mining company in Papua New
Guinea. His responsibilities include:
Coaching a national team of Change Agents to implement
a site-wide Management Operating System (MOS). The
goal is to up-skill team members to be able to affect change
at all levels of the business, from the front line to the
Lindsay Maw
management team.
American
Provide insight into the operation in order to identify
bottlenecks and production gaps and to ensure
Director, Stratalignment Partners
improvement controls are implemented as part of the MOS
Ltd, UK
roll out.
Sector: Management Consulting
Masego is a second generation business owner of a retail
and property development business domiciled in Botswana.
Through her background in finance and investments her
focus is to develop and drive the strategic plans of the
business. One of her primary objectives has been to
develop, grow and diversify the asset base of the business.
Masego is also speaker, and has facilitated panel
Masego Mbaakanyi discussions, organized by a noteworthy NGO in Botswana
Motswanan called the Dreams Alive Club (DAC). DAC focuses on
empowering women in Botswana (predominantly in the
Managing Director, Hemamo arts), but also in entrepreneurship. Masego’s passion has
Investments, Botswana been (and continues to be) in mentoring women in
entrepreneurship.
Sector: Retail
Gerald is currently on an educational sabbatical from an
executive marketing role. In previous roles, he has
managed brands at the enterprise level and oversaw the
creative direction and strategic positioning of multi-billion
dollar firms. In addition to his EMBA studies at Oxford,
Gerald is concurrently pursuing a Master's in Data Science
Gerald McRobbie
at Harvard. While on sabbatical, he is also running a brand
Canadian
consultancy serving global clients like Amazon to startups
in stealth mode.
Managing Director, McRobbie +
Partners LP, USA
Sector: Marketing19
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Robert founded Graph Theory to be an optimization
company. Specifically, they optimize Supply Chain
implementations. As the Managing Director, his primarily
focus is to grow and expand the company. His main
Robert Patrick Nacu responsibilities are: business development, growth and
American expansion into Asia Pacific region, alliance and partnership
building, strategy, software and product roadmap, and
Founder, Managing Director, marketing.
Graph Theory LLC, USA and
Singapore
Sector: Supply Chain
Deevashan’s role is Management of the short term
insurance pricing team mainly in respect of Commercial &
Niche Products. This involves both technical and retail
pricing for both new business and renewal pricing as well
as vetting of new product proposals or initiatives such as
Deevashan Naidoo the acquisition of UMAs or Brokers. He is responsible for
South African the development of pricing strategy for short term
insuranceand monitoring of pricing and product profitability.
Pricing Manager, Standard
Insurance Limited, South Africa
Sector: Insurance
Sifiso Nhleko Sifiso work as a structural engineer responsible for the
South African safety assessment of civil nuclear facilities.
Languages: Zulu
Senior Analyst, National Nuclear
Regulator, South Africa
Sector: Nuclear Energy
(Government)20
Steve is Head of Commercial Finance at dunnhumby, a
global leader in customer data science. Steve leads a large,
culturally diverse team of finance, property and
procurement professionals.
Operating in 32 countries across all 5 continents, Steve has
global accountability for finance business partnering,
financial control, property & facilities management, and
procurement.
Key responsibilities include strategic planning and
Stephen Nicholson
forecasting, management & statutory reporting, pricing &
British
deal analysis, and supplier relationship management.
Steve is also board member of a Joint Venture in China
Head Of Commercial Finance,
owned by dunnhumby and China Resources (a China state-
dunnhumby Limited, UK
owned business).
Sector: Retail
O
Madonna is responsible for legal affairs, corporate
governance, policy advocacy, and stakeholder
engagement. She builds the company’s reputation and
promotes its vast business interests in Sub Saharan Africa
by developing and executing comprehensive strategies,
partnerships, and grassroot campaigns. This includes
engaging and building strong working relationships with
Madonna Okpaleke
government agencies, interest groups, investors, and other
Nigerian
relevant stakeholders to secure stable regulatory and
operating environments that guarantees the company’s
Corporate Affairs Manager, Triton
success and growth.
Group, Nigeria
Sector: Agriculture
As Chief Financial Officier, Kayode is responsible for the
overall finance and commercial functions at First
Hydrocarbon Nigeria (FHN), an oil and gas exploration and
production company in Nigeria, West Africa.
Kayode Olatunbosun His remit at FHN includes strategic planning, financial
Nigerian management, capital raising, financial reporting, investor
relations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate
Languages: Yoruba development, risk management, and commercial.
CFO, First Hydrocarbon Nigeria
Company Limited, Nigeria
Sector: Oil & Gas21
Ameenat is an experienced Tax lawyer with a demonstrated
history of working in the government administration
industry.
Skilled in Revenue Law, Budgeting, Politics, Policy
Analysis, Business Planning, and Analytical Skills.
Ameenat Oluwa-Badmus
She is strong professional with LLM in Law, and Mphil in
Nigerian Taxation focused in Law, General Administration, Taxation
from University of Lagos, University of London and Pretoria.
Languages: Yoruba
Currently works as a Tax Administrator with the Technical
Tax Administrator, Federal Inland and Compliance Unit of the Lagos Island Coordination,
Revenue Service, Nigeria Federal Inland Revenue, Nigeria.
Sector: Government Administration
As a negotiator, Osagie has a broad exposure to various
sectors of the oil & gas value chain from services, to the
upstream & midstream. I have been assigned to numerous
departments following diverse subject matters from
subcontracts & procurement, financial co-ordination, bid
Osagie Omenai rounds, acquisitions & divestments, strategy & new country
Nigerian/ British, Italian evaluation, to scouting & business development.
Osagie’s current role involves negotiating & managing
Languages: French, Italian upstream contracts, acting as transaction lead for cross
functional project teams, and developing commercialisation
Head Gas Commercial, Assets & pricing strategies for the utilisation & monetisation of new
Operated By Others, Total E&P and existing gas assets.
Nigeria, Nigeria
Sector: Energy
P
Raff is a tech entrepreneur. Raff's latest project, Return
Magic, was acquired 18 months ago by Shopify, one of the
most respected and successful Canadian companies. Raff
now leverages their entrepreneurial mindset to help
Raphael Paquin organizations take advantage of the opportunities created
Canadian by the tech revolution. In his spare time, he actively invests
in startup companies and serveson a few boards.
Languages: French
Tech Entrepreneur, Shopify,
Canada
Sector: Technology22
Abena advises the firm on their strategy and approach to
winning work in Africa. She has a team of 3 who report
directly into me and work with a broader team of 15 across
Abena Poku 8 international offices. In this role, she focuses on client
British/Ghanaian targeting and engagement campaigns, branding, PR, profile
raising, events and oversee the business strategy, planning
Languages: Twi and budgeting process for the Africa practice at Hogan
Lovells.
Senior Marketing and Business
Development Manager, Hogan
Lovells, UK
Sector: Legal
R
Rose's current role as Executive Director for CMD-IT
(Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in
Information Technology), she works with academia,
government, industry, research and other organizations and
industry to ensure that underrepresented groups are fully
engaged in computing and information technologies, and to
promote innovation that enriches, enhances, and enables
these communities, such that more equitable and
Rosario Robinson
sustainable contributions are possible by all communities.
American
She works collaboratively with the Board of Directors to set
the strategic direction for the organization and manage full
Executive Director, CMD-IT, USA
and part-time staff. She is responsible for the organization’s
achievement of its mission and financial objectives.
Sector: Nonprofit
As Chief Operating Officer of TUBOSIDER, he deals with
the implementation of financial reports and the execution of
strategic development plans based on financial resources
and sales forecasts.
In addition to the above, he follows, jointly with the
purchasing department, the fluctuations in prices of raw
materials (steel and zinc), assessing their impact on the net
Riccardo Ruscalla margin of the products, the company's cash flow and the
Italian revaluation of the warehouse stock.
Riccardo is also involved in all technological product
Languages: French, Italian, innovation processes together with the R&D department,
Spanish and, since January 2020, he is responsible for the strategic
business development of the African market by managing
COO, TUBOSIDER, Italy an internal team of thirty people.
Sector: Industrial Manufacturing23
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Barbara is a multilingual Logistics and Supply Chain Expert,
with over 16 years expertise across different industries and
geographies. Until recent she has been managing a
business unit offering solutions in international transport &
storage for the fine art industry. Her role included
introducing strategies for footprint expansion into new
markets, budget & P&L accountability and overall team
Barbara Schlagbauer leadership. Following the sale of her business unit to a new
Austrian investor she managed a successful post-sale integration
and transition.
Languages: French, German, This year she will be starting a new chapter as a Global
Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Group Logistics Director for a market leader in industrial
Spanish engineering. Besides she has been volunteering as a
mentor for a social enterprise in the past and is very
General Manager, Crozier, interested getting active in the non-profit sector and circular
Switzerland economy.
Sector: Transport, Manufacturing
Ashish is a Delhi-based journalist with eclectic interests and
varied experience of news, features, reviews, editorial and
opinion writing across print, broadcast and online media. He
has supervised colleagues, led teams and written
extensively on subjects including politics, governance,
conservation and the arts. A Chevening scholar, he has
Ashish Sharma
worked for more than two decades with some of India’s
Indian
most influential media organisations. He is currently part of
the rewrite team at India’s leading and the world’s second
Languages: Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu
largest English-language financial daily. Along with
handling stories from across sectors, he occasionally writes
Senior Assistant Editor, The
a political column for the edit and politics pages.
Economic Times, India
Sector: Media
Experienced senior executive with a track record of driving
profitable international growth and returns. Extensive
knowledge across functional areas including strategy, real
estate, design, architecture, construction and
merchandising/retail operations. Geographic expertise
James Smith
includes US, UK, Europe and Japan. Negotiations and
American
execution in 8+ countries. Skilled in Strategy, Negotiation,
Retail, Sales, Team Building, and Management.
COO, The McDevitt Company,
USA
Sector: Property/Commercial Real
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Physician, partner in private orthopedic surgery practice in
New Jersey. Responsibilities have included patient care,
surgical treatment, and administrative practice oversight.
Founder of biotech initiative focused on basic science
Erica Rowe Urquhart
approaches to musculoskeletal disease.
American
Partner, Urquhart Orthopedic
Associates, USA
Sector: Healthcare
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Catherine's current role is to support continued oil and gas
Exploration in the UK offshore. Responsible for technical
evaluations of Exploration opportunties in the North Sea
and for monitoring the Exploration portfolio, providing input
Catherine Wasse to strategy, coordinating and finalising our annual business
British plan and reserves reporting.
Senior Exploration Geologist,
Royal Dutch Shell, UK
Sector: Oil & Gas
Currently as a Director of Finance working over multiple
NHS organisations, Lei has got a budgetary responsibility
of nearly one billion pound. Her day-to-day work includes
Lei Wei
advising the Boards on all aspects of financial strategy and
Chinese
financial management, managing finance and corporate
teams, and providing financial leadership in operational
Languages: Mandarin
matters such as development of new service provisions and
programmes and projects.
Director of Finance, NHS North
West London Collaborataion of
Clinical Commissioning Groups,
UK
Sector: Non-for-Profit25
Frank's current role is owner and principal broker of Employer
Advantage Insurance (EAI) - an employee benefits agency. As
owner, he is responsible for the growth, stability, direction and
daily operation of the brokerage. As a small business
entrepreneur, he takes a hands-on approach to the oversite of
the financial management, marketing, sales, customer service
and project management of the firm.
As principal broker he negotiates insurance contracts on
behalf of employer groups, balance costs, contract terms and
service agreements to mutually benefit our clients and carrier
partners. Employee benefits include claims management and
Frank West
administrative services. As an intermediary between the
American
insured and the insurer arbitration is an important aspect of my
position, including adjudication of complex insurance claims
Principal broker, Employer
and intercession of billing and premium audits.
Advantage Insurance, USA
Sales and marketing are primary functions of my role as the
principal of the agency, developing prospective clients
Sector: Insurance
through networking
Alex spent the last 13 years as an inter-dealer broker at
BGC Partners' subsidiary, GFI Group. He was a partner in
charge of a futures and options desk - specialising in coal,
power and carbon - that transacted over $50bn of notional
per year. His primary responsibilities were costumer
acquisition, retention, strategy, budgeting, compliance and
general management.
Alexander Westropp
Alex also co-founded a social networking app called Pickle
British
and has recently resigned from both to explore a new
fintech venture within the IDB sector.
Founder, UK
Sector: Fintech
Runs the day to day operations of a veteran non-profit
established to help transitioning service men and women
find their next purposeful role. Sets the vision, goals and
strategies long term for the organization which is aligned
with the current needs of the individuals and families that
the non-profit supports. Manages a team focused on
Jonathan Wilson
providing essential programs for a successful transition,
American
fundraising to meet the programatic spend requirements
and other normal duties associated with running a business.
Founder and CEO, SEAL Future
Foundation, USA
Sector: Not For Profit26
Owen Wyatt is Managing Director and Board Member of
The Stylist Group the UK's largest media and events
business for women. Stylist Magazine is read by 420,000
women a week and Stylist.co.uk has a monthly audience of
over 3 million women across the country. Stylist owns and
operates Stylist Strong a fitness studio for women in Mayfair
and runs Stylist LIVE events across the country. Hired after
the company was acquired by the DC Thomson Family in
2016 Owen manages 150 staff across digital, sales, content
Owen Wyatt and creative studio. His core areas of focus are digital
British revenue and audience growth. Since March 2017 Stylist's
monthly UK digital audience has grown from 250,000
Languages: Spanish women to over 3 million and what was a 100% print revenue
business now generates over 50% of revenue through it's
Managing Director, Stylist Group, creative studio launched in 2017 delivering digital and
UK experiential advertising solutions. Owen manages Stylist's
relationships with Google, Facebook and Apple, the
Sector: Media companies biggest challenge and opportunity.
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Antonio Zamarripa currently serves as Sr. Vice President &
Director with BBVA’s Global Subsidiaries Banking Group
within Corporate Investment Banking in the U.S. As the
Head of BBVA USA’s Mexico, Brazil, and Asia desks, his
responsibilities include strategic management of
multinational corporate subsidiaries operating within the
U.S. and the delivery and execution of global transaction
banking solutions including cash management, liquidity,
Antonio Zamarripa working capital, and trade finance.
American Prior to joining the Global Subsidiaries Group, Antonio
served as Sr. Vice President for the International
Languages: Spanish Commercial Banking Group, where he was responsible for
managing BBVA USA’s inbound Cross-Border Banking
Sr. Vice President & Director - Strategy and the Global Synergies Group in the mid-
Global Subsidiaries, BBVA, USA corporate segment.
Sector: Corporate & Investment
Banking
Bozen is responsible for the origination and execution of
international Debt Capital Markets products from Central
and Eastern Europe within UniCredit Group. He advises
clients on a wide range of financing strategies and
opportunities which help improve their funding and earnings
Božen Živaljić
prospects. His role entails interaction with clients’ senior
Croatian
management and internal coordination of the requisite
teams across different jurisdictions.
Croatian
Director, CEEMEA Debt Capital
Markets, UniCredit, UK
Sector: Investment Banking27
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