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Speaker Bios | in Speaking Order SPEAKER BIOS | IN SPEAKING ORDER Anthony Hilton Journalist & Broadcaster Independent The Author, Broadcaster, Journalist and Lecturer joined Fleet Street in 1968 as a Trainee on the Guardian. He was City Editor of the Times, 1981 to 1983 and City Editor of the Evening Standard from 1984 to 1989 and in November 1989 became Managing Director of the Evening Standard, a post he held for six years before returning to the City Office as Editor in 1996. He is now Financial Editor. Anthony was awarded Business Journalist of the Year and Outstanding Achievement in Financial Journalism at the Association of British Insurers Financial Media Awards 2014. Anthony has worked for the Observer, the Daily Mail and the Sunday Express. He was Editor of Accountancy Age for five years and has served in New York, where for three years he was Business Correspondent for the London Sunday Times. He returned to Britain in 1981 to become City Editor of the Times. Anthony was seen regularly on television, filling the commentator’s slot on Channel 4’s ‘TV Business programme’, and appearing as the expert panellist on ‘The Stocks and Shares Show’. He is also heard frequently on radio. In addition, he has written two acclaimed books; ‘How to communicate financial information to employees’ and ‘City within a state – A study of how the city of London really works.’ Anthony has an MA (Hons) in Economics from the University of Aberdeen, he was a visiting professor in economics at London Metropolitan University in 2010-2012 and received an honorary degree from Aberdeen University in 2011 in recognition of his articles from 2005 – 2007 predicting the financial crash. Anthony lives in Suffolk, and has four children. He is a former parachutist but now less strenuously cruises on England’s canals. Professor George Feiger Executive Dean Aston Business School From June 2013 George has been the Executive Dean of Aston Business School, returning to the academic world, in which he began his professional career. From 2003 to May 2013 George was the founder and CEO of Contango Capital Advisors, a wealth management firm in San Francisco. George has also been a Director of McKinsey & Co, working in the US and the UK, the Global Head of Investment Banking for SBC Warburg, the Global Head of Onshore Private Banking for Swiss Bank Corporation and then for UBS and a member of the Group Management Boards of both Swiss Bank Corporation and UBS. George has also been involved in a variety of venture capital activities. He has been a frequent commentator on economic and financial topics in a variety of media. George was a Lecturer in Economics at Harvard and then Assistant and Associate Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in the 1970s. George holds a B.Econ (Hons) from Monash University and a Ph.D in Economics from Harvard University. He was also a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard. Lesley Batchelor Director General Institute of Export & International Trade Lesley Batchelor is a champion of UK exporters, with a powerful track record in enhancing the performance of hundreds of businesses. Appointed director general of the Institute of Export (IOE), an education foundation providing qualifications and support for business, in 2010 after a three-year elected tenure as chairman and CEO, Also CEO of Open to Export a collaborative CIC with FSB, UKTI, HSBC & the IOE a digital platform for new and inexperienced exporters. Lesley is active on the APPG Advisory Panel on Trade & Investment, the APP Manufacturing Group and has given evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Government support for SMEs. Lesley has forged influential partnerships with international associations. She brought together 20 organisations to create GURU online, an international award-winning business resource available to all exporters. Lesley is a graduate of the Institute of Export qualifications and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. She has invaluable expertise in intellectual property, global licensing and marketing. After 15 years working with blue-chip giants including Fujitsu Europe, Canon, Ciba-Geigy and Coca-Cola, Lesley set up CMC Marketing in 1992 to develop inspirational overseas strategies and international training programmes for SMEs. Mark Runiewicz Chief Executive Officer Trade & Export Finance Limited (TAEFL) Mark Runiewicz is CEO at Trade and Export Finance Limited (TAEFL), a company supporting companies to finance their order books, acting as mentors, advocates and coaches in companies banking relationships. He has arranged finance for global exports totalling £65m in the past 12 months. Prior to becoming CEO at TAEFL, Mark was a banker, beginning his career with Midland Bank, moving to the International Division and running the international branch in the Midlands. In 1980 Mark joined TSB prior to the merger with Lloyds Bank and established their corporate international centre covering England and wales, a similar role followed with Hill Samuel. Following this, he moved into consultancy and was an external consultant to Asian Development Bank (part of the World Bank) working in projects in Pakistan, including restructuring the Countries Export Promotion Bureau. Mark is also the author of the international Trade Survey, published in June 2015 and has conducted similar surveys since 1996. Moreover, he has written books on international trade, lectured on financing exports in Europe and North America and has been an expert witness in the High Court. Gabriel Buck Commissioner; Chair; Managing Director, Head of ECA & Capex Financing Solutions Group Cole Review; Export Finance & Trade Committee, British Bankers Association (BBA), Barclays Gabriel Buck - Global Head of the CAPEX Financing Solutions (CFS) team and responsible for the structuring and execution financing of major CAPEX projects around the world. Gabriel has over 35 years of banking experience of which 25 years has been spent specialising in structuring Trade and Export Finance which includes financing ECA transactions, having project managed over US$10bn of ECA transactions since 2000. Gabriel is the Chairman of the British Bankers’ Association’s Export Finance & Trade Committee. The BBA EF&TC Committee ensures close co-ordination between the banks, the ECA's and the various Governmental stakeholders. Additionally, he has recently been appointed as a Commissioner to the “Cole Review”, set up to assist UK Government to define strategy for making UK Exports more successful. Irene Graham Executive Director British Bankers Association (BBA) At the BBA Irene leads the overall policy work across SME and corporate businesses, including key industrial sectors. This includes running Better Business Finance and strategic initiatives across products such as export finance and capital markets. Prior to joining the BBA Irene was a senior banker at Standard Chartered Bank, undertaking executive roles across its international footprint. This included heading its Corporate and Institutional business, and transaction bank in Europe, co-heading SCB’s European wholesale bank and leading international regulatory affairs. She sits on the board of the UK Business Angel Association. Zafar Khan Group Financial Controller Carillion Mr Khan was Carillion Plc’s Finance Director for Middle East and North Africa from 2011 until 2014 and continues to support Carillion’s clients in the region by working with UK Export Finance. Carillion has over 20,000 employees in the region with operations in the UAE, Oman, Qatar, Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Carillion has delivered a number of iconic projects, most notably in the UAE and Oman and has also established services businesses across the region. During his time in MENA, Carillion secured its first major project in Qatar and mobilised into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. James Pumphrey Head of Structured Trade & Export Finance UK Deutsche Bank James is a Director in Deutsche Bank’s Structured Trade & Export Finance team and is responsible for managing the London team which is responsible for the arranging business supported by eight Export Credit Agencies including UK Export Finance. James joined Deutsche in 1999 having previously worked in the ECA team at Barclays Capital. James led the deal team working on the first UKEF direct lending facility involving co-financing following the re-engineering of the scheme announced by UKEF last year. James represents the bank on BExA’s Banking Committee. James has a BA (Hons) degree in Economics from the University of York. Tony Wonfor Head of Sales Financing, Western Europe Huawei Technologies (UK) Tony is responsible for Sales Finance in the Western Europe Region for Huawei Techologies and has been with the company for 4 years and is based in London. Prior to this he was a banker for over 20 years with various institution including HSBC, Mizuho and BNP Paribas Fortis where he ran the Global Telecom, Media and Technology Finance Group. Huawei was founded in 1987 and is a leading Global Telecommunications Equipment and ICT solutions provider with business operations in over 170 countries generating revenues of approximately US$46.5bln in 2014. Huawei opened its first office in the UK in 2001 and is mainland China’s largest investor into the UK. The company has 15 offices across the UK and over 900 employees, planned to rise to 1,500 by 2017. Huawei will continue to expand its investment in the UK in the coming years, and is planning to invest £650 million and procure £650 million in services by 2017. In 2011, Huawei opened its UK R&D centre in Ipswich after acquiring CIP, the centre for integrated photonics. In April 2013, Huawei opened a new UK headquarters in Green Park, Reading. Margaret Eyres Head of Direct Lending, Direct Lending Division UK Export Finance Margaret Eyres joined UK Export Finance in March 2015 to head up the new direct lending division. Margaret and her team of underwriters are currently working with a panel of 20 banks and other financial organisations to deliver the new £3 billion direct lending facility in support of UK based exporters.
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