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Our team of professionals has significant experience in microfinance, asset management and emerging markets.
Rory Stear is the Non-Executive Chairman of Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Stear currently is Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Flambard Holdings Ltd. and is Executive Chairman of Fieldbury plc. In 1994, Mr. Stear co-founded Freeplay Energy Group, an energy company that develops, markets, and distributes self-sufficient technology products in emerging markets, which he managed from its inception until the sale of the company in 2008. Additionally, Mr. Stear founded the Freeplay Foundation, which transforms lives through dependable, self-sufficient and environmentally friendly technologies, primarily targeting Sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Stear serves on the board of directors of several international companies and is a member of the Dean's Council at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Advisory Board of The Business School at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa, the Renewable Energy Council of the World Economic Forum, and is a fellow of the Geneva-based Schwab Foundation for Outstanding Social Entrepreneurs.
Michael Parker is the Chief Executive Officer of Minlam Asset Management. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Parker served as Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Mirador Funds, LP, a hedge fund affiliated with HM Capital (formerly Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst), in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Parker serves on the board of directors of a number of portfolio companies in the United States and abroad. Previously, Mr. Parker was a Managing Director & Portfolio Manager at Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell and a corporate finance attorney at King & Spalding. Mr. Parker received his M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, a J.D. from University of Georgia, and a B.A. from the University of Richmond.
Ron Dadina is the Chief Credit Officer for Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Dadina has over twenty years of emerging market credit and debt financing experience. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Dadina worked as a Managing Director in the International Debt Capital Markets group at Bear Stearns where he was responsible for the origination and execution of a wide range of debt financings for emerging market issuers. Prior to Bear Stearns, he spent seven years as a Director in the Global Corporate Structured Finance Group at MBIA where he led the underwriting process for various types of emerging market debt transactions, including bank financings. Prior to joining MBIA in 2000, Mr. Dadina served as a Vice-President at Fitch Ratings from 1994 to 1999, where he managed the ratings process for emerging market bank and corporate transactions, as well as project finance, future flow and asset backed transactions. Mr. Dadina has analyzed, structured and closed deals in more than 20 countries across various regions of the globe. Mr. Dadina graduated from the University of Chicago with an M.B.A. in finance. He is also a CFA Charterholder, a member of the New York Society for Securities Analysts and the Indian Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Marco Santamaria is the Macroeconomic Investment Manager for Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Santamaria has spent over twenty years conducting fundamental research and managing emerging market investment portfolios. Mr. Santamaria formerly served as co-Chief Investment Officer of Global Securities Advisors, an investment management firm specializing in emerging markets fixed-income arbitrage and relative value strategies. Prior to Global Securities Advisors, Mr. Santamaria served as the Head of Sovereign Research at Lehman Brothers as well as a Senior Portfolio Manager for AIG Global Investments where he was a member of the AIG Foreign Exchange and Global Asset Allocation committees. Prior to AIG, Mr. Santamaria worked at ING Barings as Global Coordinator of Local Emerging Markets Research and as a Proprietary Trader, as well as a sovereign and quasi-sovereign ratings officer at Standard & Poor’s. Mr. Santamaria began his career in 1989 as an economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Santamaria received a B.A. from Amherst College and a M.A. in International Economics from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Jacob Haar is Managing Director - Microfinance of Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Haar has successfully conducted business in emerging markets and worked with international non-government organizations on issues of sustainable economic development for over a decade. Since 2004, Mr. Haar has conducted due diligence on numerous microfinance institutions and completed debt transactions with over a dozen microfinance institutions globally. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Haar worked with Azeri Star Microfinance, a microfinance institution in Azerbaijan. Mr. Haar received his M.A. from the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, is a Fulbright Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his B.A. from the University of Chicago.
Michael Hokenson is Managing Director - Marketing of Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Hokenson has been involved with emerging market entrepreneurial ventures and the microfinance industry since 1997. He has been published on the profitability of microfinance institutions in The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C.K. Prahalad. Mr. Hokenson graduated from the Erb Institute of Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, earning an M.B.A. at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a M.S. in Environmental Science at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Lloyd Stevens is a Microfinance Consultant for Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Stevens has over 15 years of experience in financial services, including significant on the ground experience with microfinance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Stevens served as Team Leader for the Pre-Closing Management phase of the Regional MSME Investment Fund for Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, Mr. Stevens was a Vice President with Deutsche Bank's Microfinance team, playing a leadership role in its five microfinance funds. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Mr. Stevens worked in Uganda as a transformation consultant for the Department of International Development's Financial Sector Deepening Project and for Uganda Women's Finance Trust, in addition to performing numerous consulting assignments with microfinance institutions around the world. Prior to his work in microfinance, Mr. Stevens spent nine years in Dresdner Bank's Non-Bank Financial Institutions Group. Mr. Stevens has a M.A. in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.
Gautam Setty is the Director of Research for Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Setty has
seven years experience in macro research and quantitative analysis.
Prior to joining Minlam, he was an investment analyst for Pine Grove
Associates, a $2 billion fund of hedge funds. He has also served as a
research assistant for the Financial Policy Forum, a think tank based
in Washington D.C. focused on financial policy research. Mr. Setty
holds a M.S. in finance from Johns Hopkins University and a B.B.A. in
finance and economics from the University of Michigan.
YuFan Stephanie Wang is an Associate for Minlam Asset Management. Ms. Wang has worked in litigation as well as administrative law positions. Prior to Minlam, Ms. Wang has worked as a law clerk with Clifford Chance US LLP in New York and Hogan & Hartson LLP in Beijing, China, and served as a junior clerk to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, EDNY. Ms. Wang is a member of the New York Bar and holds a J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she was Managing Editor of the Cardozo Journal of Law and Gender, and a B.S. from Cornell University.
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