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Be recognised and honoured in the African Fund Services space by participating in the 2021 AGF Africa Service Providers Awards. The Awards were created to honour and generate both industry and public recognition of the outstanding efforts and accomplishments of Fund Service Providers covering Africa. The 6th edition of the prestigious AGF Service Providers Awards are a recognized symbol of excellence as we are the only international awards in African Fund Services.
The winners will be invited to participate in the November issue (Special Edition) of Africa Global Funds magazine. The Awards issue will feature interviews, analysis, and/or opinion commentary with participating companies. The Awards issue will be distributed free of charge.
Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at 1.718.787.6105 or awards@africaglobalfunds.com
Deadline for submissions: Extended to September 17th, 2021.
Please note that the judging period is from July 2020 to June 2021.
Entrants will be asked to submit a case study (up to 500 words) or statement that fulfils stated objectives of each award. Please note that the judging period is from July 2020 to June 2021.
Submissions will be assessed by the appointed panel of judges. In assessing a submission, judges will be looking for the following, but not exclusive, attributes:
Those judged best in their category will progress to the finalist stage. The 2021 awards shortlist will be announced in September.
From the finalists, the judging panel will decide on the winning and highly commended entries.
NOTE: The judges' decision is final. The judges have the right to determine the standards of an award and to withhold an award in any category, if, in their view, the entries are not of sufficient merit. The judges also have the right to give a number of special awards.
We recognize and respect the sensitive nature of the information submitted in the entries. Entries are not disclosed or discussed outside the judging process. We do not publish the names of companies, organizations or individuals that have not won an Award, nor will we reproduce any information from your entry. Therefore if you enter the Awards, but are not successful, this will remain confidential.
All entries and supporting material will be destroyed after the winners are announced.
The organizers reserve the right to use information contained in the winning entries (apart from contact details and any content marked not for publication) for subsequent publicity, promotions and other activities relating to the Awards.
The panel is carefully selected to ensure the Awards judging process is fair and objective. We select individuals to serve as judges who have distinguished themselves in their field and who demonstrate exceptional leadership ability and vision. We hold our judges to the highest standards of fairness, accuracy and integrity. The entire judging process adheres firmly to these guiding principles.
Judges will take part in a judging conference call, where the winners will be decided, with one expert per category will be asked to summarize the judges’ comments and provide any additional input as required. All judges are required to sign a disclaimer form to keep information about entries and the final winners confidential.
The judges are carefully selected for their wealth of experience and expertise, as well as their absence of conflicts of interest. The list of judges will be announced shortly, and published on this page.
IMPORTANT: The judges are bound by a strict confidentiality agreement and are required to declare any conflict of interest in entries over which they deliberate, and to stand aside from deliberations concerning those entries.
The judges are carefully selected for their wealth of experience and expertise, as well as their absence of conflicts of interest.
The panel is carefully selected to ensure the Awards judging process is fair and objective. We select individuals to serve as judges who have distinguished themselves in their field and who demonstrate exceptional leadership ability and vision. We hold our judges to the highest standards of fairness, accuracy and integrity. The entire judging process adheres firmly to these guiding principles.
Judges will take part in a judging conference call, where the winners will be decided, with one expert per category will be asked to summarize the judges’ comments and provide any additional input as required. All judges are required to sign a disclaimer form to keep information about entries and the final winners confidential.
IMPORTANT: The judges are bound by a strict confidentiality agreement and are required to declare any conflict of interest in entries over which they deliberate, and to stand aside from deliberations concerning those entries.
Tanya van Lill
Tanya van Lill
CEO, SAVCA
Tanya joined SAVCA in March 2017, after a rewarding 10-year career at the Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) with her last role being Director of Academic Programmes where she also served on the board of the Executive MBA Council (EMBAC), an international academic association that represents the Executive MBA industry.
Tanya is passionate about human and organisational development. During her time as a learning and development specialist focusing on management and leadership development, Tanya gained valuable experience working with various companies across a wide range of sectors. She holds an MBA and Post-Graduate Diploma from GIBS where her MBA research focused on methods to develop a global mindset. Tanya also holds a BCom Informatics and Honours in Business Management from UNISA.
Tanya is also passionate about developing the private equity and venture capital sector in Southern Africa. Through personal experiences, Tanya understands the complexities entrepreneurs face during the various stages of their business lifecycle and is a regular contributor at various events to help entrepreneurs, and investors, understand the value and impact of private equity and venture capital. Tanya is the mother of a stunning young man, a motorbike/car enthusiast and a South African PowerLifter.
Tim Staermose
Tim Staermose
CEO, ST Funds Management
Tim Staermose is CEO of ST Funds Management Limited, the Investment Manager of the African Lions Fund, a boutique long-only investment fund investing in companies in sub-Saharan Africa ex-South Africa.
Tim started the fund in 2020, after a career spanning more than 25 years in the Emerging Markets in Asia, where he worked for many years in sell-side equity research, and for several independent equity research firms.
He has also been an advisor and manager of funds for several high net individuals and family offices for more than a decade.
Today he is based in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, one of the few African frontier markets fund managers, living full-time in a frothier African economy.
Dr Daniel Broby
Dr Daniel Broby
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Accounting and Finance, University of Strathclyde Glasgow
Dr Broby is a leading academic in the field of Financial Technology (Fintech). He has a PhD in Accounting and Finance from Strathclyde University, an MPhil in Economics from Brunel University and an MSc in Investment Analysis from Stirling University. His research interests focus on distributed technologies, market operational efficiency and novel financial innovations and business models. He is one of the world’s most recognised experts on index construction. He wrote ‘A Guide to Index Construction’ for Risk Books, described in a review as “a comprehensive academic treatise on the subject. His research is extending the literature within the finance discipline to incorporate big data analysis, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. As director of the Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation, he is focused on updating the curriculum in taught finance to incorporate Financial Technology. He has helped develop Financial Technology to cluster status at Strathclyde University. He is enabling financial technology knowledge exchange from academia to industry.
In his professional career, prior to academia, he was a successful investor in emerging and growth markets. He held several ‘C’ level positions in leading asset management firms. The investment performance of the funds he managed was recognised by Morningstar (with their highest five-star rating). He has served on several financial industry task forces, committees and policy councils.
Roxanne Ryan Alozie
Roxanne Ryan Alozie
MD for Business Development, DFC
Roxanne Ryan Alozie is the Managing Director for Business Development for the Chief Development Office of the US International Development Finance Corporation. She leads business development operational activities, strategic analysis, and product innovation. Prior to working at the US International Development Finance Corporation, Roxanne worked for over 10 years in strategy, operations and research at Gartner ( formerly Corporate Executive Board) International Finance Corporation, and AT Kearney. Moreover, she spent the first ten years of her career working in financial services on Wall Street, both as an underwriter and in marketing strategy. Roxanne received her MBA from University of Michigan, and an MS from the London School of Economics and BS from Cornell University.
Tamer El-Raghy
Tamer El-Raghy
MD, Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund
Tamer El-Raghy is the Managing Director of the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund (ARAF); a $58m impact fund and the world’s first equity fund designed to build the climate resilience of smallholder farmers. Tamer has more than 20 years of private equity, venture capital, M&A, entrepreneurial, and innovation experience in Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Europe.
Prior to joining ARAF, Tamer was with responsAbility AG as head of Agri&Food PE Fund in Africa where he co-led the structuring, due diligence, and closing of transactions that impacted 35,000 smallholder farmers. Before responsAbility AG, he led Cargill’s growth strategy and M&A activities in Africa with a focus on animal nutrition, animal protein, and commodities value chains in Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Zambia, and Ghana, impacting 50,000 smallholders.
Tamer started his career as a materials engineer, where he co-invented a new class of materials, held nine patents, and founded 3-ONE-2 LLC, as a joint venture, commercializing the technology for both civilian and defense applications. Tamer earned an MBA from the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business , a PhD in Materials Engineering from Drexel University, and a BSc in Metallurgical Engineering from Cairo University.
Abhimanyu Yadav
Abhimanyu Yadav
Head of Fixed Income & Currencies, MCB Investment Management
Abhimanyu heads fixed income and currencies at MCB Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of the MCB Group, a leading financial institution in Mauritius. He is an investment professional with a broad skill set including portfolio management, trading, quantitative analysis and risk management in both the asset and liability sides of the asset management business. He joined MCB IM in May 2015, and prior to that was a portfolio manager at MEAG New York Corporation, where he managed and traded the $22bn credit portion (US$ IG/HY/EM, CDX/CDS and C$ IG) of the firm’s $40bn AUM.
Khaled Saba
Khaled Saba
Senior Country Advisor - Egypt, Mediterrania Capital Partners
Over 25 years of international executive experience and a wide network in multiple industries across Egypt, the GCC, South Asia and Europe.
- Track record in executing high profile capital markets and M&A transactions and in leading the business development, restructuring, operations and value creation efforts of medium sized and multinational ventures.
- Previously headed Investment Banking at Beltone Financial, Strategy & Commercial at Orascom Telecom and Research at EFG-Hermes.
- Held several board seats in Telecoms, Healthcare, Pharma, Tourism and Chemicals.
- BA in Economics and an MBA in Marketing and Int’l Business from the American University in Cairo.
Standard Bank Group is the largest African bank by assets, operating in 20 African countries and 5 global financial centres. Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, we are listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, with share code SBK, and the Namibian Stock Exchange, share code SNB.
Standard Bank has a 158-year history in South Africa and started building a franchise outside southern Africa in the early 1990s.
Our strategic position, which enables us to connect Africa to other select emerging markets as well as pools of capital in developed markets, and our balanced portfolio of businesses, provide significant opportunities for growth.
The group has over 50 000 employees, more than 1100 branches and over 6500 ATMs on the African continent, which enable it to deliver a complete range of services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking and wealth management.
Headline earnings for 2020 were R15.9 billion and total assets were R2.5 trillion (about USD170 billion). Standard Bank’s market capitalisation as of 31 December 2020 was R209.4 billion (USD14 billion).
The group’s largest shareholder is the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the world’s largest bank, with a 20.1% shareholding. In addition, Standard Bank Group and ICBC share a strategic partnership that facilitates trade and deal flow between Africa, China and select emerging markets.
For further information, go to http://www.standardbank.com
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