Anchor Point Risk is a Financial Services advisory and consulting firm specialises in providing credit risk solutions under three pillars of services; Risk, Accounting and Regulatory.It provides a credit risk analysis solution to global and regional banks and businesses. Today’s environment requires providers of credit to significantly enhance their ability to understand the risks associated with their portfolio. Anchor Point’s technology platform enables its clients to have access to the same risk analysis of their credit exposure that large institutions have in-house without having the burden of high development, and implementations costs. Anchor Point’s suite of credit risk services have kept pace with all of today’s evolving accounting and regulatory requirements.Its proprietary models, and applications, in one “environment”, utilize the clients’ existing counter-party data and rate it to industry-wide, and globally, acknowledged benchmarks. The ultimate value proposition is an end-to-end credit risk rating, pricing and valuation ecosystem, with requisite governance to comply with both (advanced) regulatory and accounting standards.

The SAFYR UTILIS Group of companies is a financial services group anchored in Mauritius, born out from the merger of SAFYR Wealth Services Ltd and UTILIS Corporate Services Ltd, as our team combines fund administration expertise, wealth structuring and administration and significant capital markets reach.To SAFYR’s traditional African client base, UTILIS contributes its US and Asian fund expertise, thus allowing our clients to benefit from our deep understanding and relationships in key markets, whilst consolidating our presence in some strategic European jurisdiction.The Group is structured in three pillars, as we recognize the different and specialized skill set required by each, namely:-Fund Administration and Support Group: the team is led by a group of seasoned professionals, with domain knowledge of managing large and complex funds with diverse strategies and backed by sophisticated and broad group of investors. This allows you to focus on the management of the fund and your investors whilst we support all your back-office and middle-office requirements including your investor communication needs, treasury dealings and NAV calculation.Wealth Structuring and Administration Group: since wealth preservation and enhancement is key to you, the team will accompany you every step of the way as we advise on the best sustainable vehicle to house, protect and enhance your wealth and reputation. We invest in understanding your business, your succession plan and personal objectives, for the medium and long term.Capital Markets: the team has initiated and closed on debt from the local market in excess of USD 500 Million, and the equity desk has advised on a number of existing and potential listings on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius.

At Vertu, we’re focused on our name’s sake: Virtue.All our processes, all our systems, and all our people arefocused on building one thing: trust. We found that by doingthis, everything else is aligned. We make smarter decisions,better investments and give more considered advice.We use our full range of financial services to manage,grow and protect your wealth with your interests at heart.We’ve gone the extra mile and created a seamless globalintegration plan, giving you and those you care about,generation after generation, access to a world of opportunity.All of this because of that one thing: trust. At Vertu Wealth webelieve you’re not just going to be our client today – you’ll beour client tomorrow.Building wealth through trust.

Senior Portfolio Manager at Melville Douglas Investment Managers, within Standard Bank GroupHead of Institutional BusinessResponsible for Banks and Financial Services sectors equity research

Head of Client Coverage for Standard Bank "Non-Presence Countries".- Responsible for client and country coverage for West and Central African Monetary Union countries (L'OEMOA and CEMAC)- Assisted in the opening of the Standard Bank offfice in Cote d'Ivoire- Represented Global Market division during 2012

Responsible for:- Global Model Development- Global Risk Projects- Operational Risk- Risk Management Operations, and global organisational design- Risk oversight responsibility of 9 Stanbic Africa countries/operations

Managed the CIB Risk function for 16 countries in Africa. - This included credit, market, operational risk, as well as compliance and legal.

Responsible for the Economic Portfolio within the Office of the Deputy President. This included the 6 portfolios of the Accelerated & Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGI-SA):- Macroeconomic issues- Infrastructure Development- Sector Investment Strategies- Education and Skills Development - Second Economy Interventions (with a particular focus on SME strategies), and- Governance and Institutional issues.

Greg and actuarial partner founded and led the KPMG Quantitative Services Division. The division specialised in quantitative financial risk management and measurement for banks and insurance companies, as well as econometric modelling for mining houses and the public sector. The common denominator between the disciplines was integrated capital management.Duties and Responsibilities:• Led a team of 40 quantitative analysts and econometricians in two sub-divisions:• The first – Quantitative Financial Risk Management, built risk rating tools (predominantly credit risk) in all the large SA banks. It also was involved in a number of statistical model validation roles as well as Basel II implementation projects within South African, Middle East and other African banks. • The second – Economic modelling unit, focussed predominantly on macro-economic modelling and socio-economic modelling. Its clients included mining houses, which needed a more scientific or statistical approach to forecasting their long-term capital and operational budgeting for large-scale capital projects. Greg and his team were involved in the preparation, validation or development of most of one of the world’s largest mining house’s divisions’ capital project escalation (budgeting) models. This included pre-feasibility measurement, such as Internal Rate of Return etc. The division also assisted the public sector, which needed some measurement of the value add of various initiatives on the wider economy.