EQUITY FOR AFRICA LIMITED - Key Persons
Afzal is a specialist with a strong operations, product and technology experiences in financial services. He is an adviser at Mbuyu Capital an Africa specialist fund manager and direct investment firm. He is a former product manager at PrecisionLender and an operating partner of Sun European Partners, $10bn private equity business and as CEO/CFO successfully turned around a payments venture and a data center business.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Independent Consultant
Edward is an independent consultant. He has worked in corporate finance for nearly four decades, for the vast majority of that time for Nordic banks such as SEB Enskilda, Alfred Berg, Carnegie and latterly as Head of Equity Capital Markets for Handelsbanken.
Jeremy was previously Member of Parliament for Stafford and Managing Director of African Speciality Products, which markets coffee and cocoa from East Africa and develops new businesses which add value to agricultural production. He returned to the UK in 2000 following 11 years as General Manager and Managing Director of the African Coffee Company Ltd in Tanzania.
Paul was a director of Allia (formerly CityLife) established by the Relationships Foundation to issue Charity Bonds with the funds coming from corporate and private donors initially to provide capital for the creation of employment in high unemployment areas in the UK. The mechanism was developed by Allia. Paul was also a member of the UK Council of Africa Inland Mission International and is a former director of Charterhouse Bank advising listed companies.
Simeon is an accountant, and has held senior finance and treasury positions at major companies including Guinness, Saatchi & Saatchi and WPP. He was most recently Director of Treasury, Tax and Risk Management at Guinness, before becoming an independent consultant. He has also undertaken consulting work for the IFC in East Africa on small business investment and performance monitoring.