Anthony is a Main Board member resident in Asia supporting the implementation of the Corporate agenda by the Asia-based business units. In coordination with the business units he also has a lead role in establishing and managing Government relationships in the Region. He has over thirty five years experience in the capital markets, investment banking, and investment management industry, all with operating, financial, or fiduciary responsibility.

Twenty years of this experience has been in Asia, the majority managing the capital markets and wealth management businesses of Continental Bank and its acquirer Bank of America. Prior to founding his own private equity investment company in 2003, Anthony was CEO for Asia of Zurich Scudder Investments, the asset management arm of Zurich Financial Services, a member of the firm’s Global Management Committee, and Chairman of Scudder Investments Japan. Anthony is a Director of a number of Asian investment funds and on a ‘pro bono’ basis actively supports the promotion of higher standards of corporate governance and sustainable responsible investment, and microfinance. He initially joined Sindicatum as an Adviser to the Board in 2006

Assaad co-founded Sindicatum Group in 2002. As Sindicatum Group Chief Executive, Assaad is responsible for Sindicatum’s overall strategy, stakeholder relationships and the project investments managed by Sindicatum’s business units in China, the United States, South East Asia and India. From 1993 to 2002, Assaad was an investment banker at Nomura International plc in London, where he was successively Head of the Middle East Group (1993-1997), Head of Corporate Finance – Emerging Markets (1997-1999), Head of Corporate Finance – Financial Institutions, Communications and Technology (1999-2001) and Deputy Head, Global Corporate Finance (2001-2002).

At Nomura International, Assaad advised on several billion dollars of equity and debt capital raisings and invested several hundred million dollars of Nomura’s capital in private equity and principal finance investments in the emerging markets, each investment resulting in a profitable exit for Nomura. From 1988 to 1993, Assaad was at Price Waterhouse in New York City where his last position was as Manager, International Capital Markets.

At Price Waterhouse, Assaad advised the Government of Indonesia on the privatization of state-owned enterprises from 1991 to 1993, with an emphasis on the transportation sector, and specialized in advising Fortune 500 corporations in cross-border structured lease financings. Assaad is a graduate of Syracuse University (Summa Cum Laude) and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Colin joined the Sindicatum Board in 2005. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant, Colin worked in Africa for a number of companies, including Anglo American Corporation, and became a partner at Touche Ross. He joined the finance team at British Petroleum plc in 1975, later becoming the first Chief of Staff within the BP group. From 1995 to 1999 he served as Chief Financial Officer of BP Europe and then as BP’s senior representative in Russia.

Michael Boardman joined Sindicatum in January 2011 as Group Chief Financial Officer. Michael brings 22 years’ experience of finance and capital markets and a strong knowledge of the international investment community. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in the UK, Michael pursued an investment banking career, where over 18 years he has been directly responsible for raising over US$30 billion, in both the public and the private markets, executing a wide variety of transactions including equity raisings, debt and other financing solutions to corporate and government entities. A key feature of Michael’s career has been an emphasis on fast growing markets and growth sectors – high tech, biotech, and, in recent years, in the alternative energy space.

Bob has over 36 years experience in successful development and management of international and domestic businesses. Specifically he has more than 15 years specializing in large-scale infrastructure development, financing, construction, ownership, operation, acquisition and divestment. Prior to joining Sindicatum, Bob worked at Mirant Corporation as a Senior Vice President and Head of Asset Management where he managed Mirant’s US operations, responsible for government relations, business development, and coordination of the company’s commercial and operations groups.

Bob was also Chief Executive Officer of Mirant Mid-Atlantic LLC, a business unit representing nearly 80% of Mirant’s annual revenues. Previously Bob was a Principal at Private Power Development, an advisory firm providing consulting services to various companies, including a consortium of Japanese and British firms that purchased a multi-billion dollar Asia-Pacific business. Prior to this Bob worked at Edison Mission Energy (“EME”), serving as Chief Operating Officer of EME’s Asia Pacific business, where he grew the business from two assets in the region to one of the largest overseas US investments in the independent power business, with over USD 5 billion of assets and operations in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Singapore.

From 1984 to 1995 he worked at the US-ASEAN Business Council in Washington DC, and prior to that he was a Vice President at the Council of the Americas, from November 1973 to July 1984, in New York City. He holds a B.A. from Carroll College, Montana and an M.A. from the University of Texas.

Secretary Abraham was the 10th Secretary of Energy of the United States, and served from 2001 to 2005. He began his tenure in the midst of a severe energy crisis that included the California blackouts, declining domestic energy supplies and insufficient international energy trade opportunities. In response, he helped President Bush devise America’s first national energy plan in over a decade and oversaw its implementation. As part of this plan, he led efforts to broaden America’s international energy partnerships, working with China, Japan, Russia, the E.U., countries in South America and Africa and certain OPEC nations.

Secretary Abraham has been a close observer of world energy markets, and under his leadership the Department of Energy conducted a number of short and long-term studies of world oil, gas, electricity and other markets. Domestically, he spearheaded the department’s high-tech efforts in the areas of hydrogen fuel cell research and the development and expansion of clean coal technology programs, and provided a strong voice for the re-emergence of safe nuclear power. Prior to being named Secretary of Energy, Secretary Abraham served as U.S. Senator from Michigan for six years, where he was the author of 22 pieces of legislation signed into law.

He also chaired two subcommittees: Manufacturing and Competitiveness and Immigration. Secretary Abraham is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Abraham Group, a business consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of AREVA, Inc. and a member of the Board of Directors of Occidental Petroleum, of Deepwater Wind, a developer of offshore wind power and of C3, the energy resource management company.

In addition he recently authored “Lights Out: Ten Myths About (And Real Solutions To) Americas Energy Crisis”, a book discussing America’s energy challenges and Mr. Abraham’s strategy for addressing them. Mr. Abraham holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he co-founded the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. He later co-founded the Federalist Society.

Sobhi is a Director of CVCI focused on the CEEMEA region. He is also a Board Member of Continental Outdoor Media. Prior to joining CVCI in 2007, Sobhi had spent 9 years in Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers in the merger and acquisitions group focusing initially on the Telecom and Media sector and then on Emerging Markets. Sobhi holds a BEng from McGill University (Honours) and a Masters in Management from Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) in France.

Sunil heads the business of CVCI in the CEEMEA region. Prior to joining CVCI in 1999, Sunil was responsible for originating and structuring fixed income derivatives at Salomon Smith Barney in New York and for Strategic Planning for the Capital Markets business of Citibank in New York. Before joining Citigroup, Sunil worked for McKinsey & Company, in New York and Stamford, as a senior consultant. Prior to this, he established and managed businesses in India in the Textile and Hospitality sectors.

Senator Tom Daschle has participated in the development and debate of almost every major public policy issue of the last three decades in the United States. In 1978, he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he served for eight years. In 1986, he was elected to the US Senate and was chosen as Senate Democratic Leader in 1994. Senator Daschle is one of the longest serving Senate Democratic leaders in history and the only one to serve twice as both Majority and Minority Leader.

During his tenure, Senator Daschle navigated the Senate through some of its most historic economic and national security challenges. In 2003, he chronicled some of these experiences in his book, Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever. Since leaving the Senate, Senator Daschle has remained an active and learned voice among policy-makers. He has distinguished his experience in health care through the publication of Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis and, more recently, Getting It Done, a close-up look at the 2009 passage of health care reform legislation. Senator Daschle has also emerged as a leading thinker on climate change and renewable energy policy. In 2007, Senator Daschle joined with former Majority Leaders George Mitchell, Bob Dole and Howard Baker to create the Bipartisan Policy Center, an organization dedicated to finding common ground on some of the pressing public policy challenges of our time.

Senator Daschle serves on the board of the Center for American Progress and the National Democratic Institute and is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He also is a member of the Health Policy and Management Executive Council at the Harvard School of Public Health as well as a member of the Global Policy Advisory Council for the Health Worker Migration Initiative. Senator Daschle attended South Dakota State University, then served for three years as an intelligence officer in the US Air Force Strategic Command. Following his military service, he spent five years as an aide to South Dakota Senator James Abourezk. After leaving the Senate in 2005, Senator Daschle joined Alston & Bird LLP as a special policy advisor, and today is a Senior Policy Advisor in DLA Piper’s Government Affairs practice and serves as a member of DLA Piper’s Global Board.

Ambassador Quinton Quayle is a leading British diplomatic expert on South East Asia. He began his career in Bangkok in the late 1970s when he learnt Thai for a year prior to his appointment as Second Secretary at the British Embassy. After serving in Paris, Ambassador Quayle underwent a secondment to Price Waterhouse Management Consultants and was then appointed as Head of the Foreign Office’s department for Export Promotion. He returned to Asia as Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Indonesia (1996-1999). He was appointed International Director of UK Trade and Investment in 1999 where he was responsible for the British government’s strategy to assist exporters and as well as the deployment of some 400 staff in London and 2,000 commercial officers in British embassy’s overseas. His first ambassadorial appointment was to Romania where he served as British Ambassador from 2002-06. During his tenure, Romania joined NATO and successfully completed preparations to become a member of the EU. After a secondment to VT Group, he returned to Asia in 2007 to take up his appointment as British Ambassador to Thailand where he was heavily involved in promoting an expansion of trade and investment links between the UK and Thailand. Since leaving the Diplomatic Service at the end of 2010, Ambassador Quayle has been appointed as Honorary Chairman of International Beverages Holdings Limited and Senior Adviser to De La Rue and Salamander Energy as well as Asia Adviser to Sindicatum.