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Leighton Smith and Andrew Evans: Serendipitous Rise Puts Dynamic Duo at the Top
Serendipity brought Leighton Smith and Andrew Evans together at a time when they couldn’t have predicted their career trajectory — either in the financial services industry or their professional partnership. They met as youngsters in Kingston, Jamaica, with their feet
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VM Finance Poised to Lead Property Financing for SMEs
VM Finance entered the non-bank specialist funding industry in 2018, armed with a wealth of experience in credit writing, backed by its parent company’s century-long work in the mortgage sector. There was a clear need in the United Kingdom housing
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Active Re COO Luis Antonio Ibáñez: Sound Underwriting, Respect, and an Eye for Opportunity…
‘Our policy? No policy. We have strategy instead,’ quips COO of reinsurance giant Active Re Active Re, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Barbados, has business development offices in Miami, Panama City, and Madrid. The company has 54 representatives around
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Société Générale Congo: Innovation in Congo Puts Societe Generale in Leadership Position
Société Générale Congo launched in April 2012 as a subsidiary of leading European financial services provider Société Générale Group. It has since become one of the main players in the country’s banking sector. Managing director and CEO Alain Calmels has
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Graphite and Graphene for the Green Transition: Tirupati Graphite Leading the Way
As the world moves deeper into the energy transition, new materials are needed to support technologies that will lower carbon outputs for the future. Graphite is officially listed as a critical mineral in the EU and the US. Its potential
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Rebecca Carter, WiseEnergy: Aligning the Stars to Create a Smart Solar System
When Rebecca Carter joined WiseEnergy as COO in February 2019, she was seeking to return to an international role in a socially responsible industry with enormous growth potential. She was successfully assimilated into the renewables sector and within nine months
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AVEVA: Software is the Key to Sustainable Industries
Digital thinking and data-led operations will accelerate the drive to net-zero and a decade of action. By Peter Herweck, CEO of AVEVA The world is on the cusp of transformation to sustainability. Global leaders are faced with a golden —
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Change, Challenge, Autonomy and Teamwork: Secrets of SENER Group’s Andrés Sendagorta
CFI.co gets to know Andrés Sendagorta, president of private engineering and technology specialist the SENER Group. It was founded in 1956 and is active in the fields of engineering, construction, energy, environment, and aerospace. CFI.co: What are your hopes for
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Florian Reuter, Volocopter: ‘Pragmatic Excellence’, Transparency, and the World of Urban Air Mobility
Florian Reuter has been at the helm of urban air mobility pioneer Volocopter almost since its inception, steering the company from strength to strength. Volocopter was born in 2010 when the founders met in an online forum for tech enthusiasts.
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Active RE Reaps Benefits of Being an Early Adopter with Juan Antonio Niño
Over the years, Juan Antonio Niño has established his place in the hierarchy of Latin America’s financial professionals. The chairman of the board of Active RE has held executive-level positions in some of the region’s most respected banks. In 1999,
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