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Dr Xolile P. Guma
Deputy Governor
South African Reserve Bank,
South Africa
Professor Njuguna Ndung’u
Governor
Central Bank of Kenya, Kenya
Dr Cecilia Ibru
Managing Director and CEO, Oceanic Bank,
Nigeria
Dr Désiré Vencatachellum
Principal Research Economist
African Development Bank, Tunisia
Dr Yang Kaisheng
Chief Executive Officer
Industrial and Commercial
Bank of China (ICBC), China
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Conference:
Day 1
8th July 2008 8am-5:30pm
Day 2
9th July 2008 8am-5:30pm
Workshops:
Pre-conference workshop
Measuring operational risk for banks and financial institutions:
7th July 2008 8am-5pm
Post-conference workshop
Islamic finance and investment banking in Africa
10th July 2008 8am-5pm
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Meet our speakers
Head,
SARB/ CCBG Secretariat
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Managing Director,
Kenya Commercial Bank
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Director (Standard Bank) & Chairman (SWIFT),
Standard Bank/SWITF Council SA
Arthur Cousins
Director, Strategy and Product Development,
The Standard Bank of South Africa, South Africa
SWIFT Director since 2003. Joined Standard Bank in 1969. Currently responsible for strategy and product development at Corporate and Investment Banking Division. Previously Head of Treasury Operations, International Banking Operations including trade finance, and custody. CLS Board Member. Previous Board Member of STRATE (national CSD). Member of the JSE Securities Exchange advisory Committee for clearing and settlement. Chairman of Financial Industry Services Association in South Africa. Member of the Money Market Forum. Chairman of national ISO TC68 standards Committee and a Member of the Global Payments Forum Steering Committee.
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Dr Desire D. Vencatachellum, Principal,
African Development Bank Group
Dr. Vencatachellum is a citizen of Mauritius and holds a Ph.D. in economics from Queen’s university (Canada). He joined the faculty of the Business School of the University of Montreal in 1994 and was promoted to the rank of full professor in June 2005. Désiré joined the Research Division of the African Development Bank in September 2005 as Principal Research Economist. Dr. Vencatachellum is currently the task manager for the research program of the AfDB on capital market development in Africa and is also working on the aid allocation mechanism to the regional member countries of the AfDB. Dr. Vencatachellum is a seasoned a speaker in many high level meetings on harnessing Africa’s potential for its development. He has published extensively on economic growth, natural resources and the role of the financial sector in Africa.
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Head - Financial Institutions and Custody,
Millenium bcp
Teodora de Castro joined the Bank in 1990.
She is the Head of Global Transaction Banking-Financial Institutions & Institutional Custody.
Before this position, she was a Manageress of Collections and Recovery Retail Department, Deputy Manageress of Mortgage Operational Development Department, Deputy Manageress of Renting Marketing and Commercial Department and Deputy Manageress of Consumer Credit Department.
Previously she was a Relationship Manager of Corporate Division and of Commercial Business Division.
Teodora de Castro holds a degree in Management by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa and Executive Program from the University of Navarra (IESE/AESE).
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Principal,
Botho Advisory Board
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Chief Executive Officer,
Hinton Consulting Group
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Dr. (Mrs.) Cecilia Ibru holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Degree in Sociology from North East London University and a Masters of Philosophy from the London school of Oriental and African studies.
She commenced her career at the IBRU Organisation in 1978 where she held various positions.
In 1990, she joined Oceanic Bank as General Manager, Admin and Personnel later becoming Executive Director, Finance and Administration.
Cecilia Ibru became the bank’s Managing Director /CEO in 1997. She is chairperson, Sub-committee of the Bankers’ Committee on Small and Medium Investment Equity Scheme (SMIEIS) Member, Presidential Consultative Committee on SMIEIS, Member World Economic Forum. She is a Fellow Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria and Fellow Nigeria Institute of Management.
In recognition of her numerous contributions to the development of Banking in Nigeria, the Federal Government of Nigeria honoured her with the award of Member of the Federal Republic (MFR).
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Managing Director,
SHARE Microfin Ltd
Dr. M. Udaia Kumar, Managing Director, Share Microfin Limited
Dr. Udaia Kumar is the Founder, Managing Director of ‘Share Microfin Limited’ the largest Micro finance program in India. Dr. Kumar is also a founding member of ‘Sa-Dhan’ and ‘INDNET’, which are active Micro finance networks. Dr. Kumar has pioneered the concept of Micro finance in Andhra Pradesh. At present these SHARE Group institutions provide financial services without any collateral, to about 1.24 million families disbursing over US$ 748 million in loans with a portfolio of about US$ 127 million. Dr. Kumar is a Post graduate in Commerce with a Masters Degree in Business Administration and a Doctorate (Ph.D) in finance and management. He has studied Micro finance at the University of Colorado, USA and Development Studies from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. He has expertise on Development administration, Poverty Alleviation, Women’s empowerment and mainstreaming people’s empowerment in local governance, Micro finance and Project Management. He is a development finance specialist in general and Micro finance specialist in particular with work experience of over 25 years. He has provided extensive technical training and consultancy services in the field of Micro finance to NGOs and Micro Finance Institutions in India and Southeast Asia. He has been a consultant for Asian Development Bank, World Bank (CGAP) and Australian Government (Ausaid).
He is a member of CII-Banking Committee for the year 2006 and the present member of the committee constituted by Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India to review the status of Housing Finance in India. He was the member of Task Force Committee constituted by the Reserve Bank of India and Prime Minister’s Office on Micro finance. He is the recipient of several awards, including the “Lifting up the World with Oneness–Heart” award presented by the U.N Peace Foundation in New York City, “Change Makers Award” by Dr.Reddy’s Foundation, and “Excellency in Micro Credit” award presented by the Rockefeller Foundation and GF-USA for his pioneering contribution in the field of Development finance and financial inclusion.
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Edward Leach
Head of Africa South
Europe, Middle East and Africa Region
SWIFT
Edward Leach started his career as a Chartered Accountant at KMPG. Thereafter he spent 10 year at the South African Reserve Bank, first as Financial Accountant, then as part of Bank Supervision and completing his time at the Bank as part of the National Payment System Department being part of the team that was responsible to create the Strategic Framework for the South African National Payment System and implementation of the SAMOS (South African RTGS) system.
Edward then joined Perago as one of the founding members and during the 8 years at Perago was involved in various Financial Market Infrastructure projects, notable the implementation of RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement) systems in Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda, Sweden, Norway and Egypt.
Edward joined SWIFT in January 2008 as head of the office in Johannesburg, responsible for SWIFT sales and marketing in 27 countries in Africa.
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Deputy Governor,
Central Bank of Nigeria
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Charles Mavimbela
A professional career spanning over 15 years and experienced in the field of Risk, Legal & Compliance and Credit Risk Management.
Experience has been acquired in various Top 100 companies in South Africa such as PG Glass, the leading glass company in the country and Afrox, an Industrial Gas and Healthcare company.
A banking background, at Management level and Senior Management level for a few financial institutions such as African Bank, the leading Micro lender in SA, as well as Nedbank and First Rand Group, two of the four Big Banks in South Africa.
Currently employed as the Head: Risk Management for Teba Bank. He responsible for ensuring that the bank wide risks are identified evaluated effectively and efficiently managed and accordingly reported.
Charles is one of the much sought after speakers in Risk Management today both locally and internationally
Armed with qualifications in Credit Risk Management, he also holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree as well as currently reading for his LLB degree through the University of South Africa.
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Bryan McLachlan has over 16 years experience in the financial services industry. Much of this time has been spent taking new products, channels or innovations to market, facilitating change in the organisation or in Marketing roles. He is currently the Head of Transaction and Investment Products at Nedbank. Key areas of responsibility include Transactional Products, Savings and Investment Products, Retail Foreign Exchange and Retail Pricing. He has previously worked at NBS, Woolworths, Old Mutual and FNB. He has an Honors degree in Commerce and is currently nearing completion of a Masters degree in Commerce at the University of Johannesburg.
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Training Director,
Islamic Financial Institute of Southern Africa
Ziyaad Mahomed has been involved in training for the approximately 10 years. He is currently the founder and CEO of IFISA, the only dedicated Islamic Finance Training institute on the continent of Africa and has lectured widely throughout South Africa.
He has authored the study material used for distance learning at the Institute including a booklet on Islamic Insurance. He has also co-authored 8 study guides on Mathematics, Science and Accounting.
Ziyaad has contributed numerous articles in various newspapers and magazines for the last 5 years. He has also presented extensively on radio and International satellite channels on Islamic finance, local & international markets banking issues for many years.
He presently has dedicated monthly columns for numerous national community newspapers.
Ziyaad served as National Marketing & Product Development Manager for Albaraka Bank South Africa. He has also been directly involved in the launching of a Shariah Compliant Unit Trust and Takafol in South Africa.
He has received tertiary training and certification in Accounting, Marketing, Business Strategy, Islamic Law, Quranic Science and Islamic Business Dealings amongst others. The institutions attended include the University of Johannesburg (Commerce), University of Kwazulu/Natal (Shariah) and the Management College of South Africa (MBA).
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Chief Executive Officer,
Equity Bank
Dr. James Mwangi, MBS
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director
James holds an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration (Honoris Causa) from Kenya Methodist University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree (Accounting Option) from the University of Nairobi and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA (K). Mr. Mwangi is a graduate of Advanced Management Programme ( Strathmore-IESE Business School, Barcelona Spain ). He has wide experience in the banking industry spanning over 17 years. Mr. Mwangi, a Kenyan national, joined the Bank in 1994.
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Governor,
Central Bank of Kenya
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Managing Director,
MTN Holdings Limited - Mobile Banking
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Managing Director,
Adzuri Corporate Development
Dawn Pretorius is Director of her own company - Adzuri Corporate Development – that offers consulting on three main areas, namely, risk management, compliance and corporate governance; related business development; specialist training and facilitation.
Increasingly, through legislation, risk management, compliance and corporate governance are being attached to the bottom line results in the financial services industry. Dawn concentrates therefore on a fully professional approach in this field.
Adzuri provides training and development for the financial services industry primarily in the form of specialist facilitation, training material and e-learning. The subject matter ranges from technical skills such as credit assessment and risk management to soft skills such as conflict management and business and report writing. Adzuri is the preferred provider for short courses for the South African Institute of Bankers.
Dawn is:
Professional member of the Compliance Institute of South Africa
Registered with the Financial Services Board for compliance practice (FAIS)
Registered as an accredited provider with the Services Seta No 0959
Fellow of the Institute of Bankers
Professional member of the Marketing Federation of South Africa
Dawn’s career has primarily been in the banking industry, more specifically in the wealth industry from a strategic, risk management, business development and later, compliance perspective both from a strategic, technical and training perspective.
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Dawn has, inter alia, a M. Com., MAP (Wits Business School), FIB (SA),
B.Tech Banking (Univ of Jhbg), Sales & Marketing Diploma, Trustee Diploma (IOB), Certificate in Money Laundering Control (RAU).
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Deputy Chief Executive,
NEPAD
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Mr Stephen Ssendikaddiwa-Mwebe, Business Continuity and Risk Management,
Central Bank of Uganda
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Chief Executive Officer,
Blue Financial Services
David van Niekerk (Dave) – Chairman and CEO (34)
Dave cut his teeth in the micro-finance industry when he joined Unity Financial Services in 1997. Later he became a shareholder and the operational manager of Unity Financial Services (Pty) Ltd. The shareholding of Unity was later sold to Sanlam, Theta and Boland Bank. Eventually 100% was sold to Theta investments, which already owned other micro finance companies: King and Altfin. Later, Unity, King and Altfin were merged with the old African Bank under the African Bank brand and Theta then changed its listed name to African Bank Investments Limited. Dave was instrumental in merging the operations of the then over 300 branches; he held senior management posts in African Bank until he left in 2001 to begin Blue. Dave established Blue based on concepts, experience and research done in the micro-finance industry.
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