Nico de Nijs

I am an allround manager with comprehensive knowledge of treasury, financial markets, emerging markets, regulation, internal audit, accounting, risk management, and IT As the CEO of IMFact (www.imfact.co.ke) together with the team in Nairobi and Amsterdam responsible for the growth of our offering of growth financing to SMEs in Africa by means of purchasing their pool of debtor receivables. The start of operations will be in Kenya where our ambition is to finance hundreds of SME clients that currently can not or only against very unfavorable conditions get access to bank financing. After Kenya we are planning to expand our activities to surrounding counties in Eastern Africa as well as to Northern Africa starting in Morocco As a CPA I have nineteen years of working experience in various roles within an international bank. I successfully operated in commercial and controlling functions In 2010 in the challenging environment of Russia I developed SafeSpace, a self storage company. I managed the company to four locations and 13,000m2 of storage space. My specialties: • A result oriented financial and operational manager who gets the job done • Team player with lots of experience in leading and working in teams with different backgrounds • A strong communicator in combination with excellent analytical and quantitative skills • Multi tasking being capable of handling several complex tasks at the same time • Extensive knowledge of financial institutions, treasury, financial markets, corporate finance, private equity, asset management, accounting standards (IFRS), legislation, compliance and corporate governance