Our Team

Mr Ford is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Westrock Group, LLC, a private investment firm he founded with this father in 2013.Westrock Group operates Westrock Asset Management, LLC, an alternative asset management firm, and Westrock Coffee Company, LLC, a vertically-integrated coffee company. Mr.Ford serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Westrock Asset Management and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Westrock Coffee Company.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Dr. Thierry Kalisa is Chief Economist and Executive Director Monetary Policy and Research Directorate at the National Bank of Rwanda, Rwanda's Central Bank.

His work covers economic research, modeling, monetary policy formulation among other things. Prior to this appointment,

Dr. Kalisa was Senior Economist, Head of the Macroeconomic Policy Division in the ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.

He graduated from University Lyon 2, France, with a PHD in Economics and has teaching experience for various economic courses.

Ms Karake is an experienced Investment Negotiator and Transactions Advisory Expert, she is currently working with the Transactions Structuring
and Support (TSS) Division at the Rwanda Development Board, and leads the team. The TSS is the government's de facto investment negotiations team.

The team negotiates strategic investments including PPPs in different sectors such as Energy, Mining, Infrastructure, ICT, Agriculture, etc.

Prior to that, she was the Company Secretary and Director of Legal affairs at Ngali Holdings.

She served as a Board Member of the Rwanda Social Security Board and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Special Guarantee Fund.

She holds an an MBA with the Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh business school), an LLM and LLB from the university of Witwatersrand, and a B-juris from the University of Namibia.

Email:doreenfk@yahoo.com

Phone Number:+250788690348

Mrs Mubiligi is currently Deputy Managing Director of a construction company with over eight years of managerial experience of working for major companies,
with proven results of developing maximum sales and profitability.

Mrs Mubiligi is the Chairperson of the Chamber of Women Entrepreneurs- Rwanda.
She holds a Masters in International Business Development from Université de Neuchatel and a Bachelor’s degree in management; option in informative system
management from the same university.

Mr Ngarukiyintwali has over 20 years of experience in investment banking, financial advisory
and portfolio management gained at Dresdner Bank, Deutsche Bank and Westdeutsche Landesbank (WestLB).

He is currently Head of Structured Credit at Mount Street Portfolio Advisers, an independent financial advisory and portfolio management firm
with offices in London, Düsseldorf, New York, Atlanta, Madrid and Athens.

He is an expert in securitization, a technique that consists in pooling various types of receivables (e.g. residential mortgages, auto loans,
credit cards, commercial real estate loans, leveraged loans, etc.) in order to originate marketable asset backed securities (ABS)
for funding or regulatory capital optimization purposes.

He has structured various types of ABS products as well as managed large portfolios of ABS.

Mr Ngarukiyintwali holds an Master of Science in Mathematical Trading and Finance from the CASS Business School of the City University London,
a Master Degree in Business (Diplom-Kaufmann) from the University of Mannheim, Germany,
an executive training certificate in Finance from INSEAD and a “Diplôme International de Management” from the Institut Commercial de Nancy, France.

Mr Rozanov is an Independent expert in institutional fund management, with 25 years of practical experience in global financial markets.
Originator of the term 'sovereign wealth funds', author of various SWF-related papers, and editor of two acclaimed books: "Global Macro" and "Tail Risk Hedging" (from Risk Books).

During 2016-19, he served as an Independent Non-Executive Director and Chairman of the Board of the National Investment Corporation of the National Bank of Kazakhstan,
which is one of the country’s sovereign wealth funds.

Previously, Andrew was Associate Fellow in the International Economics Program at Chatham House, where he was researching Abenomics.

Prior to that, he worked at Permal Group, where he was responsible for advising institutional investors on asset allocation, portfolio construction,
risk management and alternative investments, focusing on global macro and tail risk strategies.

Before that, he worked at State Street Corporation and UBS Investment Bank, in Tokyo and in London.

Rozanov is known in the industry for having introduced the term “Sovereign Wealth Funds’ (SWFs) in an article in Central Banking Journal in 2005. Subsequently,
he published extensively on SWF-related matters, and edited two highly acclaimed books – Global Macro and Tail Risk Hedging.

Mr Rozanov is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and a Chartered Alternative