East Grinstead, England, United Kingdom
I have a wealth of UK and international experience gained over 30 years in business. I enjoy the creativity of marketing and driving the successful development of profitable business growth. My experience and achievements in a wide variety of businesses, together with my enthusiasm for the developing potential make me an effective and competent business partner, who welcomes a challenge. I enjoy people and achieve great satisfaction from seeing a team successfully execute a deliberate and well constructed marketing strategy. As a British citizen, I have travelled extensively in Africa, through the Philippines and the Americas. My career has taken me from the UK to Uruguay, Europe and the USA. I am passionate about International trade – it is an increasingly important dynamic in our world and I seek new challenges, to contribute to organisations that wish to take advantage of the opportunities trade creates My eyes have been opened to the issues and opportunities of Financial Inclusion. The poverty that pervades the developing world is exacerbated by the lack of effective financial services. No banks, no competitive services, no long term return blight the lives of almost 5 billion people. The combination of business opportunity, technology and forward thinking regulation will allow the power of money to work for even the most disadvantaged in our societies - making the world a safer richer place. I have recently been appointed Chairman at the British African Business Alliance, where I am responsible for a strategy that stimulates business, investment and development through the empowerment of private sector businesses in both the UK and Africa. How can what I do help you achieve your own objectives? Specialties: Sales and Marketing Strategy Development Effective Networking Business Introductions Cross cultural understanding
British African is a business network that draws together British and African businesses to stimulate business, investment and development opportunities in Africa. Through developing deeper contacts amongst the Diaspora communities, the diplomatic trade and finance functions and African focused businesses, The British African Business Alliance intends to help mobilise the power of the private sector to accelerate the generation of widely held wealth in Africa.
As part of a the project development team, I have been working for over 10 years on the issues of extending Financial Inclusion. Our project has looked at the micro issues of delivering services to individual people who are currently excluded from the banked economies of the world and has addressed many of their needs. We have also looked at the Macro issues that affect the wider economy and fall under the influence of central banks and the banking sector in general. The technology we employ provides industry standard inter-operability and opens the way for banks and other financial services providers to enhance their services to their business customers, employers and to consumers. It also will improve their ROI on ATM and POS networks. With 3 billion people currently excluded in the world, our strategy is collaborative rather than competitive and we welcome the opportunity to explore how our technology will give your business the opportunity to meet the needs of currently excluded businesses and people. We focus on providing Cohesion in Financial Services, by linking remittances, wages, micro-finance and payments through a fully regulated international payments platform that currently links banks in multiple countries. You can see more at www.rainbowintercahnge.com - and I welcome all contacts with an interest in this subject.