Colin Goodall

Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Colin joined the Sindicatum Carbon Capital Board in 2005. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Colin worked in Africa for a number of companies, including Anglo American Corporation, and became a partner at Touche Ross.

He joined the finance team at British Petroleum plc in 1975, later becoming the first Chief of Staff within the BP group. From 1995 to 1999 he served as Chief Financial Officer of BP Europe and then as BP’s senior representative in Russia.

Sunil Nair

Non-Executive Director
Sunil heads the business of CVCI in the CEEMEA region. Prior to joining CVCI in 1999, Sunil was responsible for originating and structuring fixed income derivatives at Salomon Smith Barney in New York and for Strategic Planning for the Capital Markets business of Citibank in New York. Before joining Citigroup, Sunil worked for McKinsey & Company, in New York and Stamford, as a senior consultant. Prior to this, he established and managed businesses in India in the Textile and Hospitality sectors.

Iain Rawlinson

Non-Executive Director
Iain has some 20 years experience in corporate finance and investment.

Iain joined Lazard Brothers in 1986 and moved to Flemings in 1994. From 1995 he was based in Johannesburg and was responsible for building and managing Flemings’ investment banking presence in Southern Africa. In 2000 he became Chief Operating Officer and one of the initial shareholders of Fleming Family & Partners, the new Fleming family investment business, and between 2000 and 2005 held various senior executive and advisory positions in this group.

Since 2005 he has focused on his own interests. In addition to his role as a Non-executive Director of SCC, he is a director of a number of companies including Dana Petroleum plc, the Good Governance Group, Edgo Energy Limited and he is also Chairman of Tusk Trust, the leading UK-based charity focused on wildlife conservation in Africa.

Assaad Razzouk

Group CEO, Sindicatum Carbon Capital
Assaad co-founded Sindicatum Group in 2002 and SCC in 2005. From 1993 to 2002, Assaad was an investment banker at Nomura International plc in London, where he was successively Head of the Middle East Group (1993-1997), Head of Corporate Finance – Emerging Markets (1997-1999), Head of Corporate Finance – Financial Institutions, Communications and Technology (1999-2001) and Deputy Head, Global Corporate Finance (2001-2002). At Nomura International, Assaad advised on several billion dollars of equity and debt capital raisings and invested several hundred million dollars of Nomura’s capital in private equity and principal finance investments in the emerging markets, each investment resulting in a profitable exit for Nomura.

Andres Small

Non-Executive Director
Andres is a private equity practitioner focused on emerging markets at CVCI where he has been since January 2005. He is also a Board Member of Permolex International, L.P. and Intcomex Inc. Prior to joining CVCI, Andres worked as an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase’s Latin American Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory group, completing transactions in the consumer, construction, financial, paper & packaging and telecommunications industries.

Lord Andrew Stone of Blackheath

Deputy Chairman and Non-Executive Director
Lord Stone of Blackheath was raised to the peerage as Baron Stone of Blackheath in 1997.

Andrew joined Marks and Spencer plc as a trainee in 1966 and retired his position as joint managing director of the company in 1999. He is currently a director of several non-government organisations, a retail company and is involved in several charities.

He also chairs the charity DIPEx, a unique web-based health project aimed at people living with life threatening illnesses.

Anthony Moody

Non-Executive Director
Mr Moody has over thirty five years experience in the capital markets, investment banking, and investment management industry, all with operational, financial, and fiduciary responsibility. Seventeen years of this experience has been gained in Asia, the majority managing the capital markets and wealth management businesses of Continental Bank and its acquirer Bank of America. Prior to founding his own private equity investment company in 2002, Anthony was CEO for the Asia region of Zurich Scudder Investments, the asset management arm of Zurich Financial Services, a member of the firm’s Global Management Committee, and Chairman of Scudder Investments Japan. Anthony is a Director of a number of Asian investment funds and on a ‘pro bono’ basis he actively supports the promotion of higher standards of corporate governance and sustainable responsible investment in Asia, and microfinance.

Richard Wilkinson

Executive Vice President and CFO
Richard combines over 10 years of business management experience with 15 years in banking and investment banking. Most recently he was Executive Deputy Chairman of The African Lakes Corporation Plc where he led the turnaround of Africa Online, sub-Saharan Africa’s leading ISP.

Before that he was Managing Director of Angel Train Contracts where he led the post privatization restructuring and significant growth of this £1.2billion business and its subsequent sale to the Royal Bank of Scotland.

He was previously a Director in the Principal Finance Group at Nomura International PLC.