Management Team:

Anis Khan

Anis is the initiator, founder and managing partner of dfe partners.

Anis has 20 years experience in international banking and is a Swiss citizen. Anis is a finance and accounting professional, with extensive experience gained at Citibank over 16 years in banking operations, accounting and finance, bank start ups, IT solutions for banks, corporate structuring, project funding combined with investor relations. He also has professional accounting qualifications. Major strengths include bank infrastructure and O&T set-up, investment and corporate banking, business reorganization and process centralization. He also has experience in client focused review analysis, turnkey project funding, letters of credits and trade finance.

Anis has been based in the Balkans since 2001 where he has been engaged in setting up and developing micro and SME banks as well as helping to develop a banking MIS system tailored to the needs of the local market. This system has now been implemented in 4 banks in the region.

Clive Moody

Clive is a co-founder and а managing partner of dfe partners.

Clive has 20 years experience as an investor in private equity and is a UK national. He spent 16 years with 3i Group plc where he was senior director in 3i's UK southern team which managed a portfolio in excess of £300m. He has an extensive and successful track record of investments across a broad range of sectors as well as including financing SME, Management Buy Outs and Development Capital for private enterprises.

Clive has been closely involved with the formation of the Transformational Business Network, a not for profit organisation that seeks to help the development of business skills in emerging markets. (www.tbnetwork.org)

Clive Moody holds a BA(Hons) in Geography from Cambridge University

Opportunity International– Ken Vander Weele

Opportunity International is a founding partner of dfe partners.

Opportunity International is dedicated to providing opportunities to poor entrepreneurs to transform their lives through small and micro loans, training, and financial services. Opportunity International seeks to achieve this mission through their 'triple bottom line' of financial viability (measured by the sustainability of their programs), outreach (number of clients reached), and transformational impact (measurable impact on their clients). Established Begun in 1971 and organized as the Opportunity Network in 1979, Opportunity International has built an impressive portfolio of banks and non-bank s financial companies and NGOs throughout Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America . Opportunity International has more than quadrupled its active clients from 146,575 in 1998 to 675,588 in 2004. Its active portfolio of micro-loans outstanding at the end of 2004 is close to more than USD 130 million. The total amount of micro-loans made in 2004 was over USD 240 million.

Ken is Presdident of OI's operations responsible for the development and oversight of commercial microfinance institutions within the Opportunity International network. He has directly overseen the creation of 3 new microfinance banks, along with the conversion of 8 NGOs into microfinance banks. He has provided investment banking services to procure debt and equity capital to finance development and growth of these institutions; sponsored creation of Opportunity Transformation Investments Fund; and developed the investment philosophy, policies and strategy for this entity.

Ken is OI's representative on the Board of dfe partners.

Michael Fiebig

Michael Fiebig has accumulated more than 10 years of experience in advising and running retail banking, microfinance and SME lending operations world-wide - with a particular focus on the Balkans. Before joining DFEP he advised Opportunity International on the transformation of its Albanian affiliate into a commercial bank. Prior to this, he was a Director for Business Development at Kasabank, as well as Team Leader and Senior Advisor of two downscaling projects of Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau with this bank. Previously, he worked as Project Manager and Deputy Head of Bankakademie International in Frankfurt . Michael Fiebig holds a Master degree in Business Administration from the Free University of Berlin.

Taner Alicehic

Before joining DFE in 2008, Taner Alicehic was working with BCV, the fourth largest Swiss bank, as a Senior Portfolio Manager with the Asset Management Department and as Head of Equity & Fixed Income Trading. He led investment banking activities that enabling local companies (and governments) to access capital by issuing and selling securities, both in debt and equity, in the primary market. Taner participated in several collaborative projects such as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and the University of Lausanne's business school, mainly involving interest rate risk management and macro economy. He has been a member of the working group which defined the foreign investment promotion strategy for Bosnia&Herzegovina.

Taner has a Master in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is a Certified International Investment Analyst and holds an MBA from the University of Geneva. In addition, he is a member of the Swiss Financial Analysts Association. He has been a member of the Swiss Bond Commission and the SWX Bond Indexkommission since inception in 2004. Taner also is a member of the Swiss Stock Exchange's advisory board in charge of regulation of the Swiss fixed income indices.