Speaker Profiles
Brian Griffiths, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
Lord Griffiths is an international advisor to Goldman Sachs concerned with strategic issues relating to private equity, UK and Asian operations and business development activities worldwide. Prior to this, he was head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit, 1985-90 and special advisor to Margaret Thatcher, responsible for domestic policy-making and a chief architect of the privatisation and deregulation programmes. Previously he was Professor of Banking and International Finance and a Director of the Bank of England. He is a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Economic Affairs; Chairman of Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs; and has published various books on monetary policy and Christian ethics.
Peter Hinton, CEO, Summit Development Group
Peter is an entrepreneur with particular experience of private equity, fair trade and SME development in Africa. He is CEO of SDG, a Botswana based fund which invests and transforms banks and financial institutions in Africa to focus on SMEs, the unbanked and low cost housing finance (www.summitdevgp.com). He is also a director in Bean There Coffee Company, a fair trade coffee company (www.beanthere.co.za). He is a chartered accountant and worked in strategy and planning with BhS plc before running Africa Trading and making and managing private equity investments in African financial institutions with CDC.
Ken Wathome, Chairman, Faulu Kenya
As well as his role at Faulu Kenya, a leading East Africa microfinance businesses with over 280,000 clients, Ken owns and runs a real estate business in Kenya and is a director of Afrika Investment Bank and Opportunity International’s microfinance businesses in Uganda and Tanzania. He is Chairman of the global board of Food for the Hungry and a trustee of Beacon of Hope, an NGO that is transforming a low income community in the outskirts of Nairobi. He is also part of a team helping the Kenyan government develop a moral framework to underpin Kenya’s economic and social development.
Julia Middleton, Founder and Chief Executive, Common Purpose
Julia founded Common Purpose in 1988 to encourage leaders from all backgrounds to make an active contribution to society by helping provide the inspiration, knowledge and connections they need to produce real change. More than 25,000 leaders have completed Common Purpose programmes in Europe, Africa and Asia. Her book, Beyond Authority: Leadership in a Changing World, contains a wealth of advice for leaders operating beyond their own spheres of control. Julia helped found Demos (an independent think tank), Impetus Trust (developing venture philanthropy) and Alfanar (developing venture philanthropy in the Arab world). She is also on the Advisory Group of the Oxford Business School.
Richard Frost, Executive Officer and Co-founder, Motivation
Richard co-founded international development agency Motivation (www.motivation.org.uk) in 1991. Motivation improves the quality of life of disabled people in developing countries by addressing health and survival, mobility, employment and inclusion and has worked in more than 30 countries. In addition to humanitarian programmes, Motivation operates Worldmade, a social enterprise that produces and distributes wheelchairs for 45,000 people a year who need but were previously unable to obtain them. Richard is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University from which he received an honorary doctorate for his work with Motivation. He is responsible for Motivation’s global operations and spent 12 years working in developing countries.
Andrew Richardson, CEO, Metalrax Group plc
Andrew joined Metalrax in October 2007 as Group Chief Executive and has particular experience of company turnarounds. Previously the Divisional Chief Executive of Water Management at Halma PLC, Andrew started his career with Rover Group and has worked with companies including Webasto Roof Systems, Automotive Products, and Mars confectionary. He is an engineering graduate of Cambridge University.
Jerry Marshall, General Manager, TBN
Jerry is a Cambridge economist, a Chartered Marketer and an entrepreneur, establishing a marketing strategy consultancy, a social enterprise, and a marketing technology company (www.CRTviewpoint.com). He has helped develop SMEs in Palestine since the mid 1990s, to create employment, bring hope and support peace and initiated a programme to develop high growth businesses with links to Israeli technology companies in 2008. He has been a TBN Partner since 2004 and joined the TBN staff in 2007.
