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| Shân Kennedy |
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| Shân Kennedy is an independent consultant who advises on IFRS and valuation matters. She has more than 20 years experience working in the Big 4 accounting firms. |
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| Her valuation experience originates from more than 7 years working as a valuation specialist within the Big 4, including holding the position of Director responsible for the valuation specialism at one practice. |
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| Her valuation experience originates from more than 7 years working as a valuation specialist within the Big 4, including holding the position of Director responsible for the valuation specialism at one practice. |
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| Brian Hume |
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| A leading retail consulting and training practice. He is respected as an authority on retailing and retail technology and has consulted to companies in North and South America, the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. |
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| Brian's core consulting areas are sales and inventory management, supply chain management, store operations and the use of technology to improve business performance. His clients cover most retail segments. |
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| In addition to the retail community, Brian has worked with manufacturers, financial institutions; wholesalers, telecommunications suppliers, computer manufacturers and software houses that need to understand and market to the retail industry. |
| Brian has been invited to lecture to retail audiences all over the world. His work has been translated into a number of different languages. He has taught merchandise management theory and practice to US retailers on behalf of the National Retail Federation |
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| Gerald Strever |
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| Gerald Strever is the Chief Executive Officer of SNT International specializing in Financial Strategy and Business Modelling. He graduated from the University of South Africa with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Accounting) and an Honors Bachelor of Commerce Degree (Business Economics). He earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. |
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| Gerald worked for a number of years in Senior Management Accounting and Financial Management positions at Unilever and Best Foods. |
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| For several years he held the position of Head of Long Range Planning and Budgeting for Best Foods, where he pioneered Business Modelling in South Africa. He is regarded as a leading authority in the design and application of business models. He consults to a number of companies in the areas of financial strategy and business modelling ,as well as conducting both in-house and public workshops on Finance, Accounting and Business Modelling internationally. Major clients include ADNOC (UAE), ADGAS (UAE), FirstGen (Philippines), Shell (Philippines), Gaysorn (Thailand), Cat Telecom (Thailand), Bayer, BMW, Cadbury-Schweppes, Denel, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, SKF. |
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| Andrew McRobert |
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| Andrew McRobert has over 18 year's development banking experience in the Asia- Pacific region. He has undertaken consulting assignments, for a range of development Samoa and Philippines finance institutions, in more than 10 countries in the region, including PRC, Pakistan, Indonesia,. |
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| After qualifying as a chartered accountant in Australia, Andrew worked in commercial banking in Australia for about 15 years before establishing his own development banking & training business. Andrew has two key focuses in his consulting practice |
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| Firstly, credit and problem loan management. Andrew has run a credit team in Australia, written and reviewed credit manuals in several countries in the Asia-Pacific region and undertaken due diligence reviews of banks' loan portfolios and individual loan exposures in several countries in the Asia-Pacific region. |
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| Andrew gained experience in problem loan management in Australia, both as a Chartered Accountant in Australia and in commercial banking. Since starting his own business, Andrew has managed the private sector problem loan and equity portfolio of the Asian Development Bank, mediated bad debt restructuring negotiations after the Asian currency & liquidity crisis and undertaken problem loan advisory projects for banks. |
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| Secondly, financial markets training seminars. Andrew's knowledge and experience in financial training is manifested in the over 100 courses that he has conducted since 1991. Participants on Andrew's courses include many central banks, government agencies, international and domestic banks. He has developed and regularly presents in-house and public courses in the following subjects: |
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Reading and Understanding Financial Statements |
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Managing Problem Loans |
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Corporate Governance in Asia |
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Overcoming deceptive accounting and earnings manipulation |
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SME Banking |
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| Andrew is regularly asked to prepare financial institution specific in-house programs which include elements of the courses listed above, as well as client-specific materials, cases & exercises.Andrew is a Chartered Accountant. He has been elected a Fellow of the Securities Institute of Australia, and is also now a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, as well as a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. |
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| He is the author of 'Corporate Collapse', published by McGraw-Hill. |
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| John Berry |
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| John Berry is the former MD of the UK retail bank Abbey National (which is now part of Banco Santander) His wealth of experience at Abbey included sales, marketing, all distribution channels as well as businesses in Europe. |
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| Internationally recognized for his innovative approach to retail banking distribution and revenue growth (Costa Coffee as well as Branch franchising) John has spent the last few years working with banks and retailers around the world helping them improve their performance. |
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| A well known conference speaker John is able to share with attendees his personal experiences from places like Ritz Carleton, Disney, Apple and other retailers alongside numerous retail banks that are tackling today’s challenges with varying degrees of success. |
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| Dr. John W. Hendrikse |
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| He has over 20 years experience in the areas of valuations, due diligence and Corporate Governance and has consulted to more than 500 companies and 5000 SMEs. |
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He is the co-author of The Valuations Handbook (Lexis Nexis) and The Business
Governance Handbook (Juta). . |
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| Adv. Leigh Hefer-Hendrikse, |
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| Admitted as an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa in June 1999; coauthor of The Valuations Handbook (Lexis Nexis) and The Business Governance Handbook (Juta) and specializes in litigation. |
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| Jennifer Braithwaite |
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| Jennifer has been delivering and developing IFRS and Audit based training courses for over six years. Jennifer was associated in key projects KPMG, London. |
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| Her responsibilities here included developing IFRS course content and delivering strategic training courses on auditing practices and the introduction of IFRS. |
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| Her valuation experience originates from more than 7 years working as a valuation specialist within the Big 4, including holding the position of Director responsible for the valuation specialism at one practice. |
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