Africa Rail 2012 - Speaker list

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Manager - Signalling & Telecommunications, Sudan Railways

My name is Hilton Bayayi and I am a French national who was born in Zimbabwe on the 30th of January 1970.My Railway career started in February 1992 when I was employed as a Customer Service Assistant for London underground before moving to Network South East as a Revenue Protection Officer in 1994. In 1996 I trained as a Train Driver for Network...

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Deputy Minister of Transport Mr (J P ) Jeremy Patrick Cronin, MP • Member of Parliament since 1999 • Deputy General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party since 1995 • ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) Member since 1991 • Chairperson - Portfolio Committee on Transport (National Assembly), Parliament of the Republic of South Africa...

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Educated as a telecommunications engineer, Marta Fontecha has been working for Teltronic since 1998. She is a widely experienced TETRA Design Manager, participating in the very beginnings of the design of the TETRA products of this company. During years, she has been head of several R&D teams to develop TETRA products, services, applications and...

PROFILE- GEOFFERY GANGLA Geoffrey Gangla is the Managing Director of Pamoja Capital Limited, Kenya. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant of Kenya. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree from Kenyatta University, Kenya. Geoffrey has 12 years of extensive experience in corporate finance with...

Nkululeko Gobhozi Pr. Eng's Experience Principal Engineer - Communications Technology Transnet Freight Rail Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry January 2012 – Present (1 month) Johannesburg Area, South Africa Senior Engineer, Pr. Eng Transnet Freight Rail Government Agency; 10,001+ employees;...

Eng. Harak joined Ministry of Investment in 2007 and responsible for promotion, coordination and follow up for the mega infrastructure projects in Egypt. He Maintain regular investors' liaison and building relations with the other ministries, He work for Coordination with the line ministries and governorates and local authorities to obtain...

LEE Kang Kuen Dr. and Ir. Lee is a graduate from Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) and Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He possesses more than 35 years’ experience on metros and railways, including:- (a) As director of East Rail, manage the business, operation and maintenance of a 34-Km mainline railway conveying 800,000 passengers and 100...

Technology director of RFI (signalling, telecom, energy, infrastructure, rules.) - July 2006 - present.

Lucky Montana is the Group Chief Executive Officer (Group CEO) of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA), formerly the South African Rail Commuter Corporation (SARCC). Montana, a former Deputy Director-General responsible for Public Transport (bus, taxi and rail operations) in the Department of Transport, was seconded to the SARCC as...

Leila has a B.Comm Financial Management from Unisa, a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from UCT and is an MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer). Leila has worked extensively within the South African Corporate environment in such diverse fields as quality management, business process re-engineering and programming. Leila is one...

Head of IT, TAZARA. Manager Special Duties Tanzania Zambia Railway April 2008 – Present (3 years 10 months) - Job Cuts across functions and handles all special projects for the Authority Finance and Information Technology Manager Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority October 1998 – April 2008 (9 years 7 months) Cost Control, Financial...

Jason Nagy is based in Johannesburg, South Africa for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). Mr. Nagy travels throughout sub-Saharan Africa to meet with public and private sector project sponsors to identify potential USTDA grant activities that support USTDA’s dual mandate of promoting international development and U.S. exports. Previous...

A trained lawyer who joined the railway industry in the middle level and climbed up the ladder to the top level of Deputy Managing Director. He holds Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and Masters of Laws (LL.M) from the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Registered Advocate of the High Court of Tanzania and Zanzibar, Notary Public and Comissioner for...

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Justice Ramontsho works for Botswana Railways as Chief Signals and Telecommunications Engineer, a position he has held since July 1999. He holds a Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Vinnitsa Polytechnical Institution (USSR). Justice joined Botswana Railways in 1989 after graduating and grew up the ranks. As Head of Signaling and...

Didier J. Rault is a successful financier, international businessman and the founder and chairman of International Finance Capital (IFC), a global finance and investment firm. IFC specializes in the integral capital transactions that are essential in today’s rapidly evolving global business environment. These include project and corporate...

Qualified with a BSc Eng (Electronic) from the University of Natal. I have an MBA from the University of Wales. Started my carrier working as a Signal Engineer for Spoornet at Durban, working on Maintenance and management of the Signalling on the Kwazulu Natal mainline. Thereafter I worked at Protekon on the implementation of new works for...

HOWARD ROSEN studied law at Oxford University and is an English solicitor. Since 1989 he has been running his own boutique law firm in Zug, Switzerland, specialising in international commercial and finance law, with a particular emphasis on aircraft and rolling stock finance. He is also Managing Director of the Swiss trust company Rosetrust AG. ...

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Lorenzo Simonelli is president and CEO of GE's Transportation business. The business unit is a global technology leader and supplier to the railroad, marine, drilling, mining and wind industries generating revenues in excess of $4.5 billion. GE Transportation provides freight and passenger locomotives, railway signaling and communications...

Fernando is a professional engineer, a Masters degree holder in Business Administration (MBA), Major in Management, and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) graduate, from leading universities in the Philippines. He used to be President of a large construction company in Asia. He is the President & COO of Global First Financial Partners, Inc. (GFFP). Resource ...

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Ernst is a professional engineer who has extensive experience in physical asset management, Information Communications Systems, and project and programme management, all within the Rail environment. Ernst’s academic background started with achieving electrical and electronic engineering at UP in 1972 (majors in telecommunications and Control...

Education: B.Sc. with distinction In Water resource Engineering,1993, Arbaminch university, Arbaminch, Ethiopia M.Sc. in civil Engineering, specialization in Hydraulic Engineering, 1999, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorke, (IIT-ROORKE), India Diploma from Indian Railway Institute of Civil Engineering,Puna, India, 2007 Career history:...

Kobus is the Founder and Group Managing Director of The Beijing Axis (www.thebeijingaxis.com), a China-focused advisory firm operating in four principal areas: Commodities, Capital, Procurement and Strategy. Clients include global multinationals with a ‘China agenda’; and Chinese multinational firms with a ‘go-global agenda’. The firm is a leader...

Michael has 30 years’ experience of large, complex projects both in the UK and overseas, particularly in Africa. He frequently provides strategic advice to clients on their involvement with railways and infrastructure projects.