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Our
Team
We are proud of our Management
Team. The Team is composed of several senior highly experienced
and respected financiers, investment bankers, and legal and industry
experts. The Team represents the old wise experienced and confident
executives and the young, talented, competent and dynamic senior
officers. All are equity shareholders in the Company. A number of
our team are presently holding senior positions with several major
investment banks and will join Fundmore in a timely fashion upon
the completion of the First Funding. It is for this reason that
we are unable to mention their names at this time.
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FRED L.H.FARHA
The Founder, President &
CEO |
Canadian citizen, Prior to founding Fundmore
Merchant Bank, Fred was President and CEO of Fundmore
Corporation (Canada) Limited which he started 1968 in Zurich
Switzerland where he spent two years working with several Swiss
banks as a private placement banker, which he later founded in Canada,
by Dominion Charter on the 13th day of August 1971. Fred is also
President and CEO of CENCOR International
S.A., Executive Director of Fundmore
International Capital Corporation - FICC and former Chairman
of the Board of Fundmore Capital Management
Inc. He was an early pioneer of several, then unconventional
finance models and products, now recognized as financial engineering,
structured financing, commodity-linked finance, asset-based finance,
asset-backed finance, as well as other unconventional and innovative
financing solutions. Fred is an innovative financial engineer and
an authority on the use of financial instruments and products. He
excels in devising solutions and credit enhancement structures and
strategies to resolve project financing difficulties in the Emerging
Markets. He built the Fundmore group of companies into a global
boutique of financial services and established important contacts
and name recognition in over 85 countries.
From the start of his career, he recognizing the demanding nature
of structured financing solutions and the wide and diversified range
of expertise involved and needed to do the work. Fred developed
and cultivated a unique global network of sourced out "Finance
Teams" which can be assembled and put in place at short notice.
These Finance Teams are drawn from over 900
consultants, industry experts, legal and auditing, trading
houses, shipping, engineering and construction and others. His recent
challenges came in the form of partnership with Karellesprom
Holding JSC (Timber Association of Karelia) and the Government
of the Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation. He became
involved in the radical rehabilitation, reorganization and capitalization
of 20 timber harvesting, pulp and wood processing companies with
assets and infrastructure valued at more than $ 7.650 billion. Over
the past 32 years, Fred was involved in the financing of complex
projects including major oil and gas, power generation, petrochemical
plants, property development and shipping.
The Cofounders
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HUGH KENNEDY,
LLB
Chief Coordinating Officer and Cofounder |
Canadian citizen, resident Senior Vice President and
Director of Fundmore Corporation (Canada)
Limited and Director of Fundmore International
Capital Corporation -FICC, a graduate of Ottawa University
Law School class of 1969, was called to the Bar of Ontario Canada
1971, practiced law as Solicitor & Barrister in the City of
Ottawa Ontario Canada as Partner in the law firm of Bergh,
Dioguardi & Kennedy, prior to resuming his law studies
was employed as Account Executive with the Royal
Bank of Canada 1954- 1962,then as Manager of Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Company 1962- 1963, worked as Commercial
Real Estate Consultant 1985- 1993 and General Manager of Capital
Parking Inc. Starting early 1973 to date, Hugh actively participated
with CENCOR International S.A. and
FICC in several major trade finance
projects, assisted in various property development projects and
managed the processing and structuring of several critical financing
instruments in support of loans and credit facilities.
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EDWIN REDZEPAGIC
Chief Technology Officer
- Cofounder |
Edwin worked as the project manager and management
consultant at Ernst and Young and Unisys in the US, UK, Eastern
Europe and Central Asia. The key focus of his role was to promote
the use of Information Technology as an enabler to the business
change process in both developed and emerging markets. For the past
12 years, Edwin primarily worked in the financial services industry,
specialising in the Brokerage and Investment Banking areas. Edwin'
projects include:
UBS Warburg. Edwin worked as the Equities
Brokerage programme manager during the development, testing and
regulatory approval of the UBS' e-banking solution. The system is
designed to support the bank's high net-worth client community and
its technical architecture is based on FIX (Financial Information
eXchange), MQ Series, Siebel, BroadVision and WebSphere environment,
as well as the straight-through links to the German and US exchanges.
Central Bank of Russian Federation. Edwin
managed the development and implementation of a bespoke Electronic
Clearing and Settlement system for the major eastern- European central
bank He implemented the system in nine regional centres and advised
the commercial banks on the electronic interface specification and
development.
VneshEconomBank - Russian government bank
for foreign trade. Edwin managed the reconciliation of the
external debt of the former Soviet Union. His team was involved
in development and maintenance of a custom build debt reconciliation
system.
Lloyds of London. Edwin designed and
implemented the Names liability and solvency tracking application
for a number of Lloyd's Underwriters in the city of London. This
system enabled Wellington, one of the agents, to become one of the
best performing Lloyd's underwriters at the time.
Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - Cofounder
XXXX - Working with major financial institutions.
Several years as senior executive with major international industrial
and utilities companies, 10 years senior in investment banking,
effective role in preparation for the IPO Floatation & Investment
Banking. Participation in advanced company's strategic financial
plans, responsible for development and implementation of financial
systems and control. Qualified accountant, MBA in finance and other
degrees. Knowledge of e-commerce and Internet.
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JAMES N. WUENSCHE
Treasurer and Deputy CFO - Cofounder |
American citizen, has over 25 years' experience in
financial management and for the last seven years has directed all
aspects of his management and financial consulting firm, with an
emphasis on startups, turnarounds, corporate structured financings,
taxation, investor relations and corporate communications. Jim provided
CFO and general management consulting services to a wide variety
of clients including medical, manufacturing, publishing, real-estate
development, e-commerce and retail businesses. While serving as
Corporate Treasurer, he was a member of the transition team, which
successfully reorganized The Circle K Corporation.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and member of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Arizona
Society of CPA's, Treasury Management
Association and is a Diplomate' of
the American College of Forensic Accountants.
Accounting Controller & Business Manager
- Cofounder
XXXX - Senior director of one of the top six accounting
firms. Duties: will be working with CFO. Supervise and control all
accounting matters of the company. Prepare financial statements
and local and consolidated company's global divisions. Coordinate
all accounting matters and provide supervision of departments and
perform other work assignment special to company's business. XXXX
received degrees in accounting and finance with 5 years work experience
with a major accounting firm. Knowledge of e-commerce and is computer
literate. Director of Project Financing and Models - Cofounder XXXX
- Working with a major American investment bank. Has over 11 years
in financial management, preparation of valuation models, including
greenfield generation projects, contributing to tax, accounting,
operational structuring and legal teams etc. Contributing to other
project structuring models and related work. Prepare financial forecasts
and analysis. Other work assignment special to company's business.
He is the holder of MBA & Masters degree in finance and economics.
Previous experience in financial modelling with advanced Excel skills,
previous project financing experience, previous structured financing
experience, completed an investment banking analyst program.
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MATT KINDBOM
Director Investment Banking &
Products, Cofounder |
Matt Kindbom With a diverse background, Matt has held
positions at HSBC Bank Canada, in
private banking in Luxembourg, at
the United Nations in Switzerland
and recently at one of Canada's oldest investment
banks, a boutique and top technology underwriter. As such,
Matt is adept at risk management associated with the following:
business operations; company operations; trading and portfolio operations;
and asset management, securities, and administration of policies
and procedures in both large and specialised institutions.
His education is equally broad-based and well rounded, with a focus
on business, banking, and law. He holds an undergraduate degree
from McGill University and two graduate degrees from the University
of Lund, Sweden -- a Master's degree in International Law and a
Master's degree in European Affairs, where his thesis was on international
banking. Having dealt with a wide range of institutional clients,
agencies, and entrepreneurs in a number of transactions, Matt possesses
the analytical tools and creative thinking that investment banking
in the emerging markets demands. Matt is multilingual with interests
in genealogy, SCUBA diving and international politics.
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ELENA DENISSENKO
Design Manager - Cofounder
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Elena worked in fashion and design
industry for a number of years. She graduated at the Omsk University
and worked and lived in Russia, UK and US. Elena key design contributions
include:
Art4deco
www.art4deco.com.
Elena worked as the chief product and web designer for a premier
on-line gallery, specialising is sale of Eastern European arts to
the western buyers.
DIOMEDIA
www.diomedia.com
Elena worked as the chief designer for the Stock photography agency,
supplying high-resolution photo images to the Advertising, Media
and Corporate Communications industry. The site is currently being
tested and is scheduled to go live in the summer of 2001.
Diosphere
www.diosphere.com.
Corporate indentity and website design for a global business and
IT consultancy firm.
Non-executive Directors
SAMUEL COOPER III
Mr. Cooper is an American citizen, a graduate of the
Harvard Law School where he received several academic awards and
honours including a Harvard Law Review Fellowship. He is a proven
entrepreneur with an outstanding track record as a businessman over
the past 20 years. In addition he has over 27 years of corporate,
telecommunications and international law experience including purchases
and acquisitions, business planning, contracts and litigations.
He is former Chief Legislative Counsel to the Federal
Communications Commission, former counsel to the National
Cable Television Association, former outside counsel to CBS
on Syndication and Financial interest and former outside counsel
to COMSAT on direct broadcast Satellite
systems. He has been a television broadcast station licensee and
the founder of several successful telecommunications and high tech
companies, including Community Television
Network (CTN), Interstellar Media,
Intervox Communications, Bright
Spark Technologies and Netsure Solutions.
Mr. Cooper was a member of the Clinton Administration Transition
team where he was responsible for advising the President on high
technology and trade issues. Louis Ruckeyser named him "
Outstanding Businessman of the Year" on Business Journal
TV show.
Other Key Officers
They are Colleagues presently occupying senior positions
with various investment banks and financial institutions. They will
join Fundmore, as senior Division Heads, upon the successful completion
of the present phase of development activities:
Merchant Banking & IPO / GDR / M&A
Corporate Finance & Private Placement
Trade Finance & Indemnities
Public Syndication Major
Projects Public Trading,
Auction & Arbitrage Finance
Products Issues/ Offering & Placement
Documentary Credit/Guarantees
Project Finance BOT, BOO and BOOT
Financial Engineering /Structured Finance
Financial Instruments & Products
Tutorial & Advertising
Marketing/Public Relations Manager
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PAUL DIOGUARDI, Q.C.
Senior General Legal Counsel |
Queen's Counsel,
Canadian citizen, for over 26 years Paul has acted as Senior Legal
Advisor to Fundmore Corporation
(Canada) Limited and to FICC,
a graduate of St Patrick's College, Ottawa University, Queen's
University and Osgoode Hall Law School, called to the Bar of Ontario
Canada in 1966 and of the Turks& Caicos Islands bar in1983,
named a Queen's Counsel in 1984. His training and experience includes
having formerly been, for several years, Tax Counsel for Revenue
Canada (the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency) and the Federal
Department of Justice. He has acted for over 22 years as Chief
Legal Counsel of the Ottawa-Carleton Home Builders' Association,
in private practice for 36 years from offices in Ottawa Canada
and the Turks & Caicos Islands in all tax matters, real estate
and development projects, estate planning and trusts, international
tax law, business and corporate law. He is a member in good standing
of the Carleton County Law Association, the Law Society of Upper
Canada, the Turks & Caicos Bar Association, the Canadian Tax
Foundation and the International Fiscal Association. Paul is involved
in providing guidance and advice to the
Fundmore group of companies.
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