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Nick Rouse, Managing Director

Nick became Managing Director in May 2005 having worked for Barclays Bank for 33 years. His involvement with EAIF dates from the Fund's inception and he has been a member of the Credit Committee and Non-Executive Director since 2002. Nick had worked in Africa with Barclays for the 7 years preceding his appointment, initially running Barclays Corporate Business in East Africa and more recently as Head of Credit Risk for Africa and the Middle East.

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Douglas (Pug) Bennet, Director

Douglas has been with FMFM since the start of 2006 following a period with FMO in the Netherlands. He has over 10 years emerging market experience in project and structured finance and originally trained as a lawyer advising both developers and lenders on similar transactions to those currently encountered. Douglas’ main focus is on structuring and developing transactions for GuarantCo.

Orli Arav, Head of Project Finance

Orli has ten years experience in various project and structured finance roles within industry, banks and advisory firms. Until recently, she was a part-time lecturer in econometrics and applied economics. Previously she was a senior manager at Ernst & Young Project Finance and Pricewaterhousecoopers (PWC) Project Finance, where she worked on a variety of power, waste, water, desalination, rail and telecoms projects in the EMEA region.

Martijn Proos, Senior Investment Advisor

Martijn joined the FMFM team in July 2008 after having worked 3½ years at FMO’s Africa Infrastructure department. Prior to FMO, he was with T-Mobile and Tebodin Consultants & Engineers where he worked on infrastructure projects worldwide in various advisory and project finance roles. His main fields of expertise are related to the telecom and power sectors. Martijn holds an MSc in Business Administration from the Nyenrode Business University, The Netherlands.

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Anne Ranasinghe, Chief Operating Officer

Anne’s experience has been gained with KPMG, BNP Paribas, Société Générale and Standard Bank amongst others, spanning areas of Finance, Procurement and Operations. She has been a member of the FMFM team since November 2006 and is responsible for finance, treasury, operational and governance matters. Anne is a qualified accountant with an MBA, having gained a BSc (Hons) and an MSc in Control Systems Engineering.

Jeremy Hayes, Middle Office Officer

Jeremy joined the FMFM team in March 09 transferring from Banking Operations Middle Office where his main focus was supporting the Debt Capital Markets team regarding syndicated loans to Banks Financial institutions. Jeremy has over 30 years experience in banking starting out in retail banking.

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Anthony Bosco, Analyst

Anthony joined the FMFM team in March 2008 having worked for Energy - Operations in the Resource Banking department at Standard Bank London. Anthony has also recently completed his BSc degree in Information Systems and is responsible for transaction processing, bank reconciliations, and providing support on KYC issues and the portfolio management side.

Sian Frawley, Administrator

Sian joined the FMFM team in February 2004 having worked in the Credit Department at Standard Bank London for almost four years after joining in May 2000. Prior to this, Sian spent six years working for the Metropolitan Police Service.

Chris Vermont, Head of Debt Capital Markets (GuarantCo)

Chris was formerly with Australia New Zealand Bank where he was Head of Project Structured Finance and latterly Head of Debt Solutions & Distribution. He has over 20 years experience of structuring and syndicating finance for projects in emerging markets with an emphasis on South Asia and the Middle East. Chris joined FMFM in January 2007 and is responsible for new business origination, capital markets product development and leveraging GuarantCo’s capital structure.

Roland Janssens, Director

Roland has over 25 years of banking experience, gained in project and structured finance as well as M&A, corporate finance, private equity and venture capital transactions in both emerging and OECD countries. Prior to joining FMFM, Roland worked at Ermgassen & Co (Monitor Group), EBRD, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch. Earlier in his career he worked in industry for Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. Roland joined FMFM in August 2007.

Lasitha Perera, Senior Guarantees Executive

Lasitha joined FMFM in July 2009 to focus on originating and developing transactions for GuarantCo. He has over 10 years of debt and equity experience having previously worked for Total Capital, a private equity fund, where he was responsible for new business origination, executing investments and developing strategic partnerships. Prior to Total Capital he worked at Barclays Capital, both in London and New York, in a variety of debt capital markets roles, the most recent being focussed on syndicating leveraged finance transactions in the EMEA region. He holds a LLB from the University of Bristol.

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Olivia Carballo, Senior Investment Adviser

Olivia joined FMFM in September 2008 from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) where she spent 3 years working in the Project & Export Finance Department. Olivia has worked on projects in both the infrastructure (roads) and energy sectors (solar/wind/waste). Prior to RBS, she worked in the credit department of Banco Santander Central Hispano. She holds a BA in PPE from the University of Pennsylvania and an MSc in Economic Development from the London School of Economics.

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Paromita Chatterjee, Investment Adviser

Paromita joined FMFM in October 2009 from the Global Advisory & M&A team of DVB Bank. Prior to DVB Bank, she was with the Transaction Advisory practice of Ernst & Young and the Project Advisory & Structured Finance team of SBI Capital Markets, India. She has considerable experience in transaction modelling across industries in allied infrastructure sectors. She holds a degree in electrical engineering and an MBA with majors in finance and operations.

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Saurabh Rao, Investment Adviser

Saurabh joined the FMFM team in April 2009 after 3 years in Project and Structured Finance with ICICI Bank and Yes Bank in India. Saurabh has worked on the credit and structuring sides on several infrastructure (airports/ ports/ roads/ water/ aviation /healthcare ) and non-infrastructure projects. Saurabh holds an MBA with majors in Finance & Marketing, and a BA (Hons) in Economics

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Paul Cockroft, Portfolio Manager

Paul joined FMFM in March 2006 and has responsibility for portfolio management, having worked previously in relationship management and credit roles with international banks including ABN AMRO and Rabobank. He has a masters degree and his career experience to date was gained in South Africa, Ireland and China.

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