Kwaku Agbottah. – Mr. Agbottah has extensive experience in international business development in the US, Europe and West Africa. Mr. Agbottah is the Managing Director of Stanberry Realty Ghana Limited and Vice President of Stanberry International Inc., a US-based real estate company developing commercial and residential properties in Ghana,Managing Director of E-Centres Limited a business process outsourcing company with a focus on investments in outsourcing operations and facilities in West Africa and  Managing Director for Infotech Solutions Gh. Ltd, an information technology company in Ghana. Mr. Agbottah’s corporate management expertise includes a ten-year workforce training and placement experience as a board member – and eventually as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Private Industry Council of Austin & Travis County, Texas (US). Mr. Agbottah has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas - Austin.

William Baker – Mr. Baker is a long time Florida resident, lawyer, real estate specialist, businessman, and conservation consultant. He practiced real estate, finance, and land use law in Orlando, Florida from June 1966 to June 1992, and was a founding partner (1969) of Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed. In real estate development, Mr. Baker served as President and CEO of Wilco Development Company and affiliated companies - a developer of single-family housing, apartments, and large scale planned developments; as President of Florida Land Company, a regional real estate development subsidiary of Florida Gas Company (NYSE), with a portfolio of large development projects; as founder of The Crossings, an Orlando regional PUD; and owner of Hunters Point, Inc. – a developer of single- family housing. As a conservation consultant, Mr. Baker has assisted private businesses and landowners with implementing profitable conservation strategies. He has also acted as consultant to non-profit conservation organizations and government agencies. Mr. Baker has lectured on nature-based tourism, sustainable design, public private operating partnerships and the operation of natural area facilities. As Executive Director and President of Florida Conversation Lodge Foundation, he developed a model nature tourism resort lodging facility on public land in Marion County, Florida. Mr. Baker received his degrees from Vanderbilt University.

Francis Carter – Mr. Carter is President of Uberrimae Fidei Insurance Company Ltd. He moved to Bermuda in 1971 after underwriting at Lloyds in London for ten years; With forty years of experience in the insurance / reinsurance industry his career spans from a Lloyds background, to being an integral part of the creation of the Bermuda Reinsurance Market, underwriting Alternative Risk Protections, Catastrophic Coverage and Financial Reinsurance Products including Credit Upgrade Instruments. He has also been instrumental in the formation, structuring and design of Segregated Account Companies. His interests encompass, alternative risk structuring, underwriting, broking and management, and the development and patenting of new products. Other executive positions include: President of Independent Brokers Ltd. Vice President of Independent Management Ltd., President of Alcyone International Investments Ltd. and Heritage Properties Ltd. and Director of Aeolus Holdings Limited.

Gary Coppedge – Mr. Coppedge is CEO of International Business Connection Co. Ltd. and has extensive emerging market experience with infrastructure project development and management, including: business case development and analysis in Latin American economies; target client and industry studies; permitting and operational permits; regulatory change and risk analysis; and economic impact analysis.  He has aided in the formation of over 65 Latin American joint ventures and worked on multiple concession and privatization projects.   

Steve Dong – Mr. Dong has over 25 years of experience in high technology, engineering and construction companies. At Dravo, he was involved with utility, private and public projects in the US, Middle East and Taiwan, with capital budgets totaling over $10B. He has built consulting practices, software products and businesses at McDonnell Douglas/EDS, Intergraph, CGE&Y and other firms to serve government and commercial clients. He has delivered solutions to clients in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He has an MBA degree from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a Bio medical option from the City College of New York.

Robert R. Jenkins – Mr. Jenkins is President and CEO of XTNRGY, LLC and Managing Director of Sextant Capital Corporation, an investment banking firm specializing in highly structured transactions to upper middle market companies, internationally. Mr Jenkins is a founder of MaxEn, and founding Principal of XTerra Capital Advisors, LLC. Mr. Jenkins has over thirty years of financial experience including leveraged and cross border leasing, securitization of receivables and leases, public finance, M&A, real estate and sale and leasebacks. Mr. Jenkins has held senior management positions with major organizations such as Westpac Banking Corporation, Dain Rauscher’s Capital Corporation and General Electric Capital-Structured Finance Group, and  has been responsible for various transactions totaling over $10 billion.

Robert Kaplan PhD – Dr. Kaplan currently serves as president and CEO of Beacon Consulting Group and several real estate related development entities.  He is the former chairman and CEO of Kidder Enterprises Inc.; a director (1977 to present) and corporate advisor to National Holdings Ltd (a mortgage firm based in Canada); former senior vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert; a former professor of business administration at University of Iowa and University of Vermont.  In addition he has served as Advisory Member (Beige Book) for the San Francisco Federal Reserve Board.

Howard Margulis – Mr. Margulis is a partner and leader of Troutman Sanders, LLP. He focuses his practice on the full spectrum of energy, telecommunications and infrastructure development and transactional law, including domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, project and corporate financings, private equity and capital markets transactions, competitive markets development and technology applications. He represents leading investment and money-centre banks, utilities, energy and infrastructure project developers, oil, gas and LNG companies, power marketers, telecommunications firms, and industrial and energy technology companies. He concentrates on structuring and negotiating energy and telecommunications transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, project loans, capital market debt and equity placements, concessions and privatizations, acquisition finance arrangements, stranded cost structured financings, risk management, hedging, energy commodity and capacity trading structures and energy technology development. Prior to joining Salans in 2004, Mr. Margulis was previously a partner with Baker & McKenzie and a member of the Energy Law Practice Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Christopher Smith – Mr. Smith is the main principal in CB Smith & CO., a private investment banking firm with a focus on domestic and international investment banking covering technology; telecommunications; commercial real estate; venture capital and structured finance.  Mr. Smith has worked on Wall Street for 22 years and was the former head of fixed-income sales and investment banking for Hong Kong Shanghai Bank in which he oversaw a staff of forty salespeople and investment bankers. Mr. Smith was also a fixed-income specialist at Tucker Anthony, Chemical/Chase Securities and Lehman Brothers.

Enrique Vilatela – Mr. Vilatela is Managing Director of Proyectos Estratégicos Integrales (“PEI”), an investment banking firm located in Mexico City, Mexico. Mr. Vilatela, from 1975 to 2000, pursued his professional career at the financial public sector in Mexico. He started his career at Nacional Financiera in the area of International Transactions. Afterwards, he was head of the Department of Finance and International Affairs at the Foreign Trade Bank of Mexico (Bancomext). In 1989, as General Director of External Credit of the Ministry of Finance, and later as General Director of Public Credit, he participated in the negotiations involving Mexico’s external debt. During his stay at the Ministry of Finance, he was in charge of the design, organization and implementation of Mexico’s successful return to the international money and capital markets, and of the financing of numerous public sector projects. He has been a member of the board of several companies and commissions, and was a member of the Mexican negotiation team for NAFTA.

Richard K. Westfahl – Mr. Westfahl is an international management and business development consultant. He was formerly Managing Director for Enron Engineering and Construction Company and Executive Vice President of National Energy Production Company responsible for all global business development and construction projects of Enron North America. During his tenure he developed a backlog consisting of $5Billion. Mr. Westfahl was also formerly President of Raytheon Environmental Services Company, a subsidiary of Raytheon Engineers & Constructors Company, Regional Director of Business Development for Harding Lawson Associates, and Vice President-Deputy Manager of Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation. He also has held various leadership positions for the U. S. Navy as a career naval officer, including serving as Commanding Officer of a nuclear submarine. Mr. Westfahl graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, with a B. S. in Engineering and received his M. S. in Oceanography from the U. S Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He served as Chairman of the Environmental Export Council of the United States and is an active member of the Society of American Military Engineers, the Nature Conservancy, and the American Nuclear Society.