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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 construction, buildings, water, the environment and energy. The group is also involved in project financing, tolling, road and airport operations. In his role Alaa oversees the company’s ongoing operations in the Middle East, develops and implements overall business strategy geared towards flawless execution and customers satisfaction, ensures effective business resources and planning required to profitably deliver existing and upcoming projects as well as drive extensive and sustainable regional growth.

Alaa Abu Siam Jordanian Languages: Arabic Chief Operations Officer – Middle East Business Unit, Egis International, Dubai 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 development. He holds a faculty appointment at the University of Utah [US] where he serves as Special Advisor on West Africa. He is trained as a health ecologist.

Stephen Alder American 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 in emerging markets, government and community relations, strategic planning and cultural transformation. Additionally, he has technical expertise in mine planning, business improvement, project planning and execution, feasibility studies, financial modelling, operational readiness planning and underground mining operations.

Jon Almond Australian Operations Director, Golden Star Resources, Ghana Sector: Mining

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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 with External auditors, IMF, Ministry of finance and other stakeholders, as well as mentoring development of the finance team

Marianna Amirbekyan Armenian 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 in public or private companies, implementation of value creation plans, and sale of shares in portfolio companies. Milorad has served on the Supervisory Boards of multiple portfolio companies the Fund has successfully exited from, and is currently Chairman of the Supervisory Board in two portfolio companies.

Milorad Anđelić Serbian Languages: Serbian, Polish, Spanish 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 execution teams. He devises robust commercial frameworks for channel partnerships across the region, leading opportunity pursuit and business expansion. Fawaz is also the founder of APCO Energy - a start-up specialising in B2B eCommerce that enables businesses to connect seamlessly through a unified marketplace.

Fawaz Aslam-Pervez British/Pakistani Languages: Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu 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 onboard Ripple clients to RippleNet. He is responsible for the timely delivery of projects, maintains stakeholders internally and externally. As the organisation grows, Gaurav works in expanding capabilities and building relationships with the client.

Gaurav Bajaj British Languages: Hindi 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; ensuring all activities related to technical support through the InTouch (Knowledge Management Business System) system are maintained at the required level.

Jose Armando Ballesteros Medina Colombian 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 Reserves specializing in strategic reconnaissance. Prior to leaving for the private sector he served as a F-15 and U-2 pilot.

David Brill American 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 private and public sector. He manages the day-to-day operations of our company and sets out the company strategy fulfillment in the short and medium term.

Mwape L Bwanali Zambian Director, Treasfin Limited, Zambia Sector: Financial Consultancy

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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 made investments across the Americas, Europe and Africa. He also represents the firm as a Non-Executive Director for First Bauxite LLC, a portfolio company with bauxite operations in Guyana. In addition, Paulo is actively involved (Finance/Strategy) in his family’s coffee business, Little Owl Coffee, which sources and roasts green coffee with a growing number of retail outlets in the Denver area.

Paul Carrêlo British/Portuguese Portfolio Manager, Resource Capital Funds, USA Sector: Private Equity / Mining and Metals

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 significant clients. He is more effective externally as a consultant, than internally with the business - hence the desire to do the MBA.

Rupert Carter British 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 compliance. She directs the preparation of Transfer Pricing and recently rolled out across the organization the recently introduced UAE VAT law. Julie continuously supports the Board and Executive committee on all transactions which lead to tax consequence, identifying key issues and move forward strategy.

Julie Cunningham British Head of Global Tax, Emirates Global Aluminium, United Arab Emirates 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 and transaction structuring, legal contract negotiation, and integration planning. Marco has overseen over 50 company acquisitions across 20 countries for Datatec, primarily in the information technology and communications space (networking, cloud, security and collaboration) as well telecom strategy consulting market. Marco represents Datatec on its divisional executive boards and advisory councils.

Marco de Lima Portuguese Languages: Portuguese, Spanish Head of Strategy & Corporate Finance, Datatec, Spain Sector: Information Technology 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 standard equity fund to a fund for which environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have been integrated into the investment process. Her daily routine involves regular meetings discussing financials with CEOs, CFOs, IR Managers with our portfolio companies, liaising with clients and helping with the fund's marketing effort. In addition, she researches companies, gathers the required information in order to make financial recommendations and decisions on investment.

Binta Drave Malian/British Languages: Russian Fund Manager, Blakeney Management, UK 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 rapid decision making. Develops tailored streamline solutions to analysts on workflow methodologies, reducing analytical timelines. Emerging international real estate investor, applying tactical analytical experiences to gain a competitive market edge.

Jaroslaw Dyhouse American Languages: Polish 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 multi-disciplinary teams by coaching and providing technical direction to meet project deliverables. He engages with all relevant stakeholders to drive transformational changes such as strategy, operational and process improvements.

Samuel Ekaette British/Nigerian Lead Electrical Engineer, Baker Hughes, UK Sector: Oil and Gas

Sarah Emerson American Languages: Spanish Global Director & Advisor, Start-up businesses and not-for-profits Sector: Innovation/Growth

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 governance practices. After starting her career as an entrepreneur, Sarah joined a ‘Big-4’ to consult financial services firms. Most recently, she has created and leveraged cross-sector partnerships to help empower vulnerable populations through the introduction of innovative programs, products, and systems.

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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 through chemical process optimization, continuous improvement of workflows, and people development. This includes driving operational excellence via implementation of onePSS, the Bayer production system and serving as an in-house consultant for opportunity assessments. Peter holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering.

Peter Erri Danish Languages: Danish, German, Spanish Manager, Bayer AG - Crop Science Division, Germany Sector: Chemical manufacturing

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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 and nominated compliance officer for Daytona Capital Management, a UK-based fintech company that drives collaboration and connectivity between Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), banks and retailers across the world. Stephen is a qualified chartered accountant registered in both South Africa and the United Kingdom.

Stephen Fahy South African Financial Controller, WorldRemit Ltd, UK 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 operations, recruiting staff, fundraising, developing new revenue streams and networks to support Fundacion Capital's mission.

Suad Fakih Colombian 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 relationships. His corporate background provided him with a chance to lead large teams and gain experience in strategy, financial management and operations.

Rastislav Gajarsky Slovak 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, brand experience, go-to-market and organisational capability. In addition, Amelia is the custodian of the Strategy practice for Consulting globally, with a particular

focus on the development and evolution of the offer.

Amelia Gandar New Zealander / Australian Senior Director and Global 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 advanced digital marketing technologies and remote marketing control solutions in accordance with Shell's global best practice. He was also tasked with launching a Private Label business in India. This is a highly challenging task as everything he has to implement is from scratch. Moreover, he is introducing a completely new culture of getting things done. It is safe to say that this can transform the retail business in India, as local personnel have not been exposed to the new practices they are bringing in.

Alexander Goncharov Russian Languages: Russian Non-Fuel Retail Implementation Project Manager India, Shell, India Sector: Retail

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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 in postgraduate study. Aside from the EMBA, Luke has studied economics, change management, psychology, and commerce. His work in organisational behaviour, entrepreneurship, demographics and property economics has been published by various international mediums. His hobbies include writing, hiking, skiing, and culturally-immersive travel.

Luke Graham Australian Research Consultant and Small Business Advisor, Property Analysis Australia (and various), Australia + UK 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 sustainable solutions across brands and business areas. She also works on the improvement of work process in global context, and she is in the part of global strategic work for the future business opportunities.

Qi Guo Chinese Languages: Mandarin 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 that drive maximum value for our clients from cloud solutions. CloudPod allows them to pool their collective expertise and play a key role in developing compelling and clear strategies and industry propositions and build the business. It focuses on driving the latest innovation and thought leadership in addition to innovate deal creation and client engagement. It is the single stop shop for ‘all things Cloud related’.

Karthikeyan Gurumoorthy British Languages: Hindi, Tamil, Telugu Associate Director, Accenture, UK Sector: Information Technology

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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 to optimize the spending and gain market share by performing Gap analytics. Providing analytical insights to take better decisions across the organization by narrating the data driven story.

Hira Hafeez Pakistani Languages: Urdu 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 automaker in Southern California. He initiated a number of concept vehicles with tech partner such as Amazon, Blackberry, and Panasonic. These one-off collaborations showcase the potential of cutting-edge technology (such as facial recognition, autonomous driving) and inspired production specification in future vehicle platforms. Prior to Karma, Sean led the UX strategy at Subaru, culminated in the award winning ’17 Impreza.

Sean Mario Hazaray Canadian/American Languages: Mandarin Product Management, Karma Automotive, USA 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 initiative, which supported everything from sales enablement to executive engagement, investor relations

and the company's IPO.

Jessica Henry American Languages: Spanish Lead, Editorial Content, Pinterest, USA Sector: Consumer technology

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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 the organisation; Increase funding collaboration and mobilization of funds for sustainable growth and maintain and uphold governance framework for the organisation. This Embeds a strong risk, compliance and governance framework and engages contractual and non-contractual stakeholders.Thami provides strategic support to the executive and inspire them to deliver on key performance areas as he ensures the transformation of the organisation in line with national policy and strategy.

Thamsanqa Basil Hlongwa South African Languages: Zulu CEO, Umgeni Water, South Africa Sector: Utilities - Water Services

Jake Howard Australian Languages: French Partner, Banking & Finance,

Norton Rose Fulbright, Australia Sector: Legal / Mining & Commodities

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 expertise in mining project finance in emerging markets, principally Africa and has worked extensively throughout the continent. Jake is currently growing his practice in climate and carbon related transactions. Jake spent several years working out of the firm’s London and Paris offices.

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 commercial real estate industry as the Assistant General Manager (AGM) of K11 art-mall in Guangzhou China. Kayley leads several income-generation departments of the art-mall, including Tenant business management team, External partnership team and Art-merchandizing team. As the core leadership team member, Kayley also partners with the GM to make all major decisions regarding the mall P&L, including vision setting, future strategies, organization restructuring and risk management.

Sze Man (Kayley) Hui Chinese (Hong Kong) Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin Assistant General Manager, K11 Concept Limited (New World Development Company Limited), China Sector: FMCG/Retail/Commercial real estate

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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. As a company director his role is to both implement and safeguard, an effective company strategy, to deliver good quality products at competitive prices and provide an excellent service to their existing and prospective customers.

Imran Hussain British Languages: Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu 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 campaigns, communication of scientific data at European and US congresses and supports regulatory filings.

Bushra Ilyas British/Malaysian 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. Previous experience includes UK Diplomatic Service, EU and UK Energy policy, FTSE 100 and private equity.

Michael Jenner British Director of Strategy and Policy, Sembcorp, UK Sector: Energy

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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 commentator for both French and British Television. Historical investor and board member of Brand and Celebrities, digital marketing specialist, leader of influencer marketing in France.

Benjamin Kayser French Languages: French, Spanish 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 technical mastery. As Sustainability Manager at Unilever, he works towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He has led the delivery innovations that reduce environmental impact and improve the health and well-being of the global community. This includes innovations to eliminate dairy and sugar ingredients that release carbon to the environment and contribute to obesity and heart disease, and packages that are recycle-ready and are composed of recycled content.

Naveen Konduru American Sustainability Manager, Unilever, USA Sector: Consumer Goods

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 consulting / software development company after nine years in EVP Finance / Director of Finance position. In her role, Anna was responsible for running finance, reporting and accounting activities through the multinational group of companies (including such jurisdictions USA, UK, Ireland, Latvia, Russia, Ukraine, China). Anna's previous background also includes four years with the assurance department of EY Ukraine. Anna is a Fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Anna Kozlova Ukrainian Languages: German, Russian, Ukranian COO, Co-Founder, Consulting start-up, Ukraine Sector: Consulting

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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 growth; high impact companies (gender lens focus) that provide goods and services to emerging market consumers in East and West Africa. She also works with partner portfolio companies on implementing strategic value add initiatives for growth sustainability. She also manages the day to day operations of the company.

Adenike Kuti Nigerian Languages: Yoruba CEO, OAK-Heirs Limited, Nigeria 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 Solutions team which provides asset based loans, working capital, trade and project finance, energy supply facilities and a full suite of bespoke risk management & hedging products. Passionate entrepreneur as a co-owner of multiple ventures, including an energy efficiency company and a diverse music learning center in Hong Kong, and a music production studio in Canada.

Pok Ho Bosco Lai Canadian/Hong Kong Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin Project Management Lead, Innowatts Inc., USA 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; Developing the three-year strategy with talent identification, technology investment and growth in new regions; and Pursuing service excellence in all bid methodologies and project delivery.

Siobhan Lamb Australian National Lead - Strategy and Transformation, RPS, Australia Sector: Strategic Advisory

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Leading an Impact Leveraged Buyout (iLBO) of one of Africa's most iconic fashion companies, realigning the supply chain for impact, and expanding into new geographies.

Chid Liberty Liberian 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 detection capability to the eyes of the warfighter. As the lead program manager for one of the company's largest programs, she has generated and influenced many of the programmatic principles, processes and best practices for the company to follow.

Marisa Lightfoot American Program Manager, QinetiQ, USA 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 Transformation, Change Management, Project and Program Management. She has extensive experience in the Automotive Industry, and has also worked with industry-leading clients in Consumer Products & Retail, Manufacturing, Technology, Public Sector, and Life Science & Healthcare.

Chrissy Liu Chinese Languages: Mandarin Director, Global Commercial Transformation, Volvo Car Group, Sweden Sector: Automotive

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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 thinking items as well as implementation initiatives that ensure the product offering remains client-centric, competitive and socially relevant.

Thandiwe Luzuka South African 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 covers the commodity spectrum but have a particular focus on energy. Scobie has a passion for climate and carbon finance. He is currently leading the build-out of the carbon offset finance business and is the Commodities & Global Markets representative on Macquarie’s Global Green Committee.

Scobie Mackay Australian Languages: Spanish Managing Director, Commodities 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 business partnering. He is a board director of a number of subsidiaries including Network Rail Finance, a financing vehicle with £29bn borrowing and derivatives; Network Rail Development, managing property joint venture investments; and Network Rail Insurance, which carries company, supply chain and customer risks.

Paul Marshall British Group Controller, Network Rail, UK Sector: Rail

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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 management team. Provide insight into the operation in order to identify bottlenecks and production gaps and to ensure improvement controls are implemented as part of the MOS roll out.

Lindsay Maw American Director, Stratalignment Partners Ltd, UK 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 discussions, organized by a noteworthy NGO in Botswana called the Dreams Alive Club (DAC). DAC focuses on empowering women in Botswana (predominantly in the arts), but also in entrepreneurship. Masego’s passion has been (and continues to be) in mentoring women in entrepreneurship.

Masego Mbaakanyi Motswanan Managing Director, Hemamo Investments, Botswana 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 at Harvard. While on sabbatical, he is also running a brand consultancy serving global clients like Amazon to startups in stealth mode.

Gerald McRobbie Canadian Managing Director, McRobbie + Partners LP, USA Sector: Marketing

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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 responsibilities are: business development, growth and expansion into Asia Pacific region, alliance and partnership building, strategy, software and product roadmap, and marketing.

Robert Patrick Nacu American Founder, Managing Director, 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 the acquisition of UMAs or Brokers. He is responsible for the development of pricing strategy for short term insuranceand monitoring of pricing and product profitability.

Deevashan Naidoo South African Pricing Manager, Standard Insurance Limited, South Africa Sector: Insurance

Sifiso work as a structural engineer responsible for the safety assessment of civil nuclear facilities.

Sifiso Nhleko South African Languages: Zulu Senior Analyst, National Nuclear Regulator, South Africa Sector: Nuclear Energy (Government)

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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 forecasting, management & statutory reporting, pricing & deal analysis, and supplier relationship management. Steve is also board member of a Joint Venture in China owned by dunnhumby and China Resources (a China state-owned business).

Stephen Nicholson British Head Of Commercial Finance, dunnhumby Limited, UK Sector: Retail

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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 government agencies, interest groups, investors, and other relevant stakeholders to secure stable regulatory and operating environments that guarantees the company’s success and growth.

Madonna Okpaleke Nigerian Corporate Affairs Manager, Triton 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. His remit at FHN includes strategic planning, financial management, capital raising, financial reporting, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, risk management, and commercial.

Kayode Olatunbosun Nigerian Languages: Yoruba CFO, First Hydrocarbon Nigeria Company Limited, Nigeria Sector: Oil & Gas

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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. She is strong professional with LLM in Law, and Mphil in Taxation focused in Law, General Administration, Taxation from University of Lagos, University of London and Pretoria. Currently works as a Tax Administrator with the Technical and Compliance Unit of the Lagos Island Coordination, Federal Inland Revenue, Nigeria.

Ameenat Oluwa-Badmus Nigerian Languages: Yoruba Tax Administrator, Federal Inland Revenue Service, 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 rounds, acquisitions & divestments, strategy & new country evaluation, to scouting & business development. Osagie’s current role involves negotiating & managing upstream contracts, acting as transaction lead for cross functional project teams, and developing commercialisation & pricing strategies for the utilisation & monetisation of new and existing gas assets.

Osagie Omenai Nigerian/ British, Italian Languages: French, Italian Head Gas Commercial, Assets Operated By Others, Total E&P Nigeria, Nigeria Sector: Energy

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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 organizations take advantage of the opportunities created by the tech revolution. In his spare time, he actively invests in startup companies and serveson a few boards.

Raphael Paquin Canadian Languages: French Tech Entrepreneur, Shopify, Canada Sector: Technology

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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 8 international offices. In this role, she focuses on client targeting and engagement campaigns, branding, PR, profile raising, events and oversee the business strategy, planning and budgeting process for the Africa practice at Hogan Lovells.

Abena Poku British/Ghanaian Languages: Twi Senior Marketing and Business Development Manager, Hogan Lovells, UK Sector: Legal

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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 sustainable contributions are possible by all communities. She works collaboratively with the Board of Directors to set the strategic direction for the organization and manage full and part-time staff. She is responsible for the organization’s achievement of its mission and financial objectives.

Rosario Robinson American Executive Director, CMD-IT, USA 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 margin of the products, the company's cash flow and the revaluation of the warehouse stock. Riccardo is also involved in all technological product innovation processes together with the R&D department, and, since January 2020, he is responsible for the strategic business development of the African market by managing an internal team of thirty people.

Riccardo Ruscalla Italian Languages: French, Italian, Spanish COO, TUBOSIDER, Italy Sector: Industrial Manufacturing

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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 leadership. Following the sale of her business unit to a new investor she managed a successful post-sale integration and transition. This year she will be starting a new chapter as a Global Group Logistics Director for a market leader in industrial engineering. Besides she has been volunteering as a mentor for a social enterprise in the past and is very interested getting active in the non-profit sector and circular economy.

Barbara Schlagbauer Austrian Languages: French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Spanish General Manager, Crozier, Switzerland 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 worked for more than two decades with some of India’s most influential media organisations. He is currently part of the rewrite team at India’s leading and the world’s second largest English-language financial daily. Along with handling stories from across sectors, he occasionally writes a political column for the edit and politics pages.

Ashish Sharma Indian Languages: Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu Senior Assistant Editor, The 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 includes US, UK, Europe and Japan. Negotiations and execution in 8+ countries. Skilled in Strategy, Negotiation,

Retail, Sales, Team Building, and Management.

James Smith American COO, The McDevitt Company, USA Sector: Property/Commercial Real Estate

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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 approaches to musculoskeletal disease.

Erica Rowe Urquhart 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 to strategy, coordinating and finalising our annual business plan and reserves reporting.

Catherine Wasse British 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 advising the Boards on all aspects of financial strategy and financial management, managing finance and corporate teams, and providing financial leadership in operational matters such as development of new service provisions and programmes and projects.

Lei Wei Chinese Languages: Mandarin Director of Finance, NHS North West London Collaborataion of Clinical Commissioning Groups, UK Sector: Non-for-Profit

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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 administrative services. As an intermediary between the insured and the insurer arbitration is an important aspect of my position, including adjudication of complex insurance claims and intercession of billing and premium audits. Sales and marketing are primary functions of my role as the principal of the agency, developing prospective clients through networking

Frank West American Principal broker, Employer Advantage Insurance, USA Sector: Insurance

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. Alex also co-founded a social networking app called Pickle and has recently resigned from both to explore a new fintech venture within the IDB sector.

Alexander Westropp British 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 providing essential programs for a successful transition, fundraising to meet the programatic spend requirements and other normal duties associated with running a business.

Jonathan Wilson American Founder and CEO, SEAL Future Foundation, USA Sector: Not For Profit

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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 and creative studio. His core areas of focus are digital revenue and audience growth. Since March 2017 Stylist's monthly UK digital audience has grown from 250,000 women to over 3 million and what was a 100% print revenue business now generates over 50% of revenue through it's creative studio launched in 2017 delivering digital and experiential advertising solutions. Owen manages Stylist's relationships with Google, Facebook and Apple, the companies biggest challenge and opportunity.

Owen Wyatt British Languages: Spanish Managing Director, Stylist Group, UK Sector: Media

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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, working capital, and trade finance. Prior to joining the Global Subsidiaries Group, Antonio served as Sr. Vice President for the International Commercial Banking Group, where he was responsible for managing BBVA USA’s inbound Cross-Border Banking Strategy and the Global Synergies Group in the mid-corporate segment.

Antonio Zamarripa American Languages: Spanish Sr. Vice President & Director - Global Subsidiaries, BBVA, USA 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 prospects. His role entails interaction with clients’ senior management and internal coordination of the requisite teams across different jurisdictions.

Božen Živaljić Croatian Croatian Director, CEEMEA Debt Capital Markets, UniCredit, UK Sector: Investment Banking

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