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Mr. Navaid Burney Non-Executive Director

Mr. Navaid Burney is the Managing Director of Emerging Capital
Partners(“ECP”), a leading Africa-focused private equity fund manager. He runs ECP’s Johannesburg office sourcing, transacting and monitoring investments in a number of high-growth sectors. Mr. Burney joined ECP in September 2000 from First Merchant Bank of Zimbabwe where he had been General Manager of Investment Banking since 1997.

During his tenure, the Bank became a leader in corporate finance, particularly in privatizations, the structuring and placement of corporate and parastatal debt and cross border mergers and acquisitions. From 1993 to 1997, he was Senior Investment Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) where he focused on mining finance, completed transactions and provided advisory services in Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Gabon.

Prior to joining the IFC, Mr. Burney was an Associate Manager with Union Carbide Corporation’s treasury and had international banking experience from assignments in New York, Paris and Abu Dhabi. Mr. Burney serves on the Board of Directors of Starcomms Plc, Notore Ltd, Ocean & Oil Investments Ltd, Touch the Wild (Pty)Ltd and De Rust Olive Estates (Pty) Ltd among others.

Mr. Burney holds a B.S. in International Economics from Georgetown University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from University of California at Berkeley.