Monzer Kahf

Having written over 27 books and booklets in English and Arabic, and over 80 papers, Dr. Monzer Kahf has focused on Islamic finance and economics for over 33 years.

In addition, Dr. Kahf has been both working and training people in the field. His served as Professor of Islamic economics and banking at the graduate program in Islamic Economics at the Yarmouk University, Jordan, 2004-2005 and as a senior research economist at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank from 1985 – 1999. Currently, Dr. Kahf has his own consultancy and training business that provides consultation, training, auditing and instruction in the field of Islamic finance, banking and economics.

Dr. Kahf has organized and conducted many training courses at IDB, IRTI, commercial Islamic banks, and other banking institutions in several countries in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, West Africa, Europe and North America. He has also trained people in Islamic Economics, Zakah and Awqaf. He has been an invited lecturer/speaker on Islamic banking, finance and economics by several national and international training and teaching institutions and conferences in several countries. He has also been a collaborating expert at the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and member of several of its technical and methodological committees on Shari’ah and economics.

Dr. Kahf was awarded the IDB Prize for Islamic Economics, 2001 and the President of Syria Award for best University Graduating Student, July 1962. Dr. Kahf is fluent in English, Arabic and knows French
 

John Haynes

John specialises in providing practical software solutions, education and training for Interest Rate Risk and ALM Issues.  He has over 20 years practical experience in this field and has worked as an ALM consultant with many banks.  John was formally Vice President, Chase Manhattan Bank responsible for ALM products, training and support throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East.  Previously, he was Manager, Balance Sheet Management at National Westminster Bank responsible for strategic risk assessment and policy for NWB Group operations, covering interest rate risk, liquidity and structural balance sheet issues.

A specialist in the field of A/LM he has worked with a wide range of institutions

Topics have included:-

• Structure and Role of ALCO

• ALCO Reporting and Interpretation

• Restructure of Treasury Operations

• Treasury and Alco Integration

• Funds Transfer Pricing

• Management and Analyst Training

• Establishing computer models for:-

  • Retail Portfolios

  • Wholesale Portfolios

  • Balance Sheets

Adriano Pace

Adriano’s career boasts a wealth of practical experience gathered over 10 years within the derivative and capital markets in London, holding senior positions in a number of major financial institutions including Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and UBS.

He worked within the Futures & Options department of Union Bank of Switzerland, serving an institutional client base in the UK and Europe. As a director at Credit Suisse, Adriano continued to offer flow trading ideas to a broad base of institutional and hedge fund client base.

As a Director within Deutsche Bank’s Global Equity Derivatives division Adriano was responsible for sales to UK based institutional clients. The position focused on equity-based options and volatility flow ideas but increasingly integrated with other product areas, notably credit and fixed income markets.

Adriano lectures internationally on equity and fixed income markets as well as many aspects of derivatives markets, including recent trends in the industry. With his long-standing practical experience, he brings an invaluable background and perspective into financial training in the areas of Derivative Markets, Derivative & Volatility Products, Fund Management Trends and Portfolio Management Strategy and techniques.
 

Mike Willets

Mike graduated from Birmingham University, UK with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) in 1980. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1984, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales and a Member of the Faculty of Finance and Management.
 
 Mike spent 17 years working with PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”) in London as both an auditor and management consultant. In 1993, he was made Director of the PwC Business Finance Training Group, and has acted as a training and development consultant to a number of industries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, with clients that include Shell, Nokia and AOL. Mike spent four years responsible for management training for the Audit practice of Coppers & Lybrand across the Middle East region.
 
 Mike provides training and development to support performance improvement initiatives at both Board and junior management levels across a broad range of industries. Specializing in Finance, Business Planning and Management Development programs designed to improve the commercial and Business focus of participants.
 
 Mike has authored published articles on the subject of Performance Management and has created a range of business simulations and exercises, including the Finance board game simulation called CashPlus©, which has been used successfully with over 100 companies as a way of learning the principles of business finance, whilst ensuring the learning is both memorable and fun.
 
 Mike also provides Financial consulting, ranging from advising Finance Departments on how best to support the business through to 1-to1 coaching.
 

Paul Campbell

Paul Campbell has specialized in Project Management, delivering complex projects and people management with blue chip companies such as the BBC and Reuters. Delivering and communicating with high profile companies such as these required a high standard of efficiency, team working, people management, and training, which led him into people development and training.
 
 Paul’s work as a Project Manager led him into assigning many project teams from many organizations and has given him a profound interest in people and life skills such as motivation, self-belief, fear management, stress control and “getting things done”.
 
 Prior to moving into management consultancy, Paul made a major decision in his life, which was to prove an excellent grounding for his career ahead. He moved to Saudi Arabia to work for one of the world’s largest oil companies to work in Data Communications. This was to be his introduction into training and people development, as the skills he had, and developed, were to be provided in knowledge transfer format to many international employees and students. Using all his managerial skills and love of training and people development, he is focusing to develop his West End Training business.
 
 Prior to his move to Saudi, Paul’s career was athletics. His drive and ambition, which is in his professional life was born in his running career, winning many track and road races, and achieving international honors.
 

Eileen Warner

Eileen Warner is a dynamic and focused trainer with excellent problem solving skills and a flair for creativity in new situations. She enjoys challenges and is exceptional at enabling businesses to maximize their resources through HR development and training.

Key Achievements

In her career Eileen has sixteen years of training experience in very different companies across a range of programmes. Some of which are mentioned below:

• Learning and Development Project Manager for Eden District Council where she introduced the Learning Strategy including Job Evaluation, Training Curriculum, Succession Planning, Career Pathways, Skills Matrix etc

• As a Consultant for Suffolk Council, so far her achievements have included: Introduction of Performance Management System, Staff and Management Roles and Responsibilities, Staff Communication Forum, Cultural Surveys, Change Workshops, Management Mentoring, Appraisal System, Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures.

• She was also selected to be the Project Manager for “Congestion Charge London Scheme” which included duties such as Assessment, Recruitment, Competency Framework Development, Staff Maps (detailed career plans), Skills Development,  Succession Planning.

• In addition to the above Eileen regularly runs HR workshops and consultation sessions for a variety of businesses enabling them to roll out change programmes e.g. working with line management to clarify roles, offering support throughout implementation and gathering feedback from staff during workshops to be adopted.

• She has also managed and co-ordinated induction training, ad-hoc training and management development for new business venture of British Gas Communications (now Onetel) where she managed the Recruitment and Training function, liaising with the recruitment agency and Resource Manager to recruit and train up to 110 staff per month for various operational areas over a six month period through initial Assessment Centres, Competency Based Interviewing through to skills training and talent management.        

Relevant Qualifications

• Member of Institute of Leadership & Management.

• Licensed practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming.™ (Strong Research International)

• Business Strategy and Organisational Behaviour (in association with Warwick University)

• Managing Learning (Cranfield Business School)

• Experienced facilitator of techniques such as Situational Leadership, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Balanced Scorecard.

• Qualified Practitioner of Reversal Theory Motivation (Apter International)

Karen Russell

Karen Russell is an enthusiastic training and development professional, with experience in the training in various sectors, in the UK and Africa. She is highly motivated and passionate about the development of people, possesses excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to build and maintain effective relationships.

Karen started her career in banking at Barclay Bank, where she worked in many capacities and was promoted multiple times over 20 years. Her positions ranged from Branch Administrator to Regional Training Officer and finally to Training Manager. Here she designed and delivered trainings for Line Managers and Team Leaders in terms of Developing Training Plans for employees, Coaching Skills, Operations Management, Maintaining Team Performance and other programs for Employee motivation and incentives.

With over 9 years experience in Lloyds Bank, and in her capacity as HR Development Manager

Managed an HR team of 45 professional and administration staff, designed and delivered a highly effective Performance Management program for 200 line managers

Achieved 100% customer satisfaction with the HR service as well as increased the Employee Engagement score for HR within 6 months

As a Training Manager, she also designed and delivered trainings for Manager Development, Key Account Management and Initiated changes in HR division, to gain IiP accreditation.

Additional Certifications and Qualifications

• NVQ Level 4 Human Resources Development

• NEBS Management Award

• CIPD Certificate in Training & Development

• Teaching English as a Foreign Language certificate

• CIPD Certificate in Personnel Practice

Dr. Louise Bell

Dr. Louise Bell has excellent qualifications, wide ranging experience, and a well developed skill set from her many years working in psychiatry, philosophy and psychology. She uses all her knowledge in her training to ensure she meets her clients' aims. She is an experienced trainer and consultant, and has a strong background in public sector services. She has spent 20 years in the health service and university sector, and during the last three years she has been working as a consultant within various professional services.

Louise supports her clients by enabling their personal and professional development in a number of ways ranging from: specific training on research; developing evidence based practices; action learning sets; enabling effective communication strategies; and, empowering clients to think about things differently. Her training style reflects that people have different learning styles, and her approach is participative, and based on her many years experience working with, and relating to, people.

Louise has a high level of understanding of the nature of different professions, and is able to translate key theories, concepts and ideas into effective working practices. She has a list of publications in peer reviewed international journals, and regularly travels to the Middle East to deliver training and development based programs.

On a personal level she has been a triathlete for 16 years, has raced as an age group athlete for the GB Olympic distance triathlon team, and has completed three Ironman races. Her clients include: Estuary Housing Association, Care Aspirations and the NHS. Recent projects include:

• Introducing clinical supervision to 160 staff including senior managers

• Delivering a five day course on management in the Middle East

• Facilitating Action Learning Sets for Home Manager

Matthew Chapman

Matthew Chapman has been involved in the training sector since 1996. Prior to this he held a management position within the retail sector responsible for his team development in line with stretching targets. Within this role he was instrumental in the ongoing management of a newly created Telecoms Channel.

Building on his Management skills and field experience he took a position with a FTSE 100 company where he delivered personal development and technical training to internal and external clients. Outside his normal role he also successfully mentored fellow colleagues.

From solely focusing on training he widened his skill set to Territory Business Management where he was responsible for the development of a portfolio of SME businesses in line with company objectives. One of the many successes achieved within this role was the increase in revenue generated within a maturing market.

Matthew now combines his field, operational and theoretical experience as a Principal of West End Training. This ensures that quality personal and management training is provided along with relevant up to date business examples. Concentrating on applying the theory to the working environment and the use of evaluation methods ensure organizational objectives are achieved.

Professional Qualifications / Accreditations

• HNC Business & Management Distinction 2003

• Accredited by the Law Society to deliver CPD training to the legal profession

• Accredited by University of Wales & Institute of Cardiff (UWIC)

• Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) endorsement

Mervyn King

After graduating in Classics from the University of Cambridge in 1969, Mervyn King gained over twenty years' treasury experience in senior positions with the top names in the City. Subsequently he became Chairman of the Executive Committee of FEL and following his mandate in 1995 to design their Pre-Diploma Examination (now ACI Dealing Certificate) he turned his focus to training. Since 1998 he has emerged as a trainer of international renown in treasury, risk and back office procedures, training staff from banks, IT software companies and supporters to the industry. He is also a past Editor of Forex-Inter, the official journal of the ACI.

Mervyn provides courses not only for all ACI examinations - classroom delivery (day, evening, weekend), Home Study (with or without tutor assistance) or any combination required - but tailor-made material on any Treasury, Derivative or Risk subject. Mervyn is the author of 'Back Office & Beyond' an essential companion for back office staff.