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Global Trade Finance Network™ (GTFNet) has assembled
an international Board of Directors and Management Team.
Rodney D. Galpin, Chairman |
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Mr. Galpin is Chairman of the Board. Mr. Galpin is a member of the Board
of Director's of Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, and
has served on the Board of Directors of a number of other public companies.
Mr. Galpin’s accomplishments include having been Executive Director
of the Bank of England and Chairman & CEO of Standard Chartered Bank
Plc.
Amongst his other interests, Mr. Galpin is an Officer of the Order of St
John, Freeman of the City of London; Life Governor & Council Member,
Haileybury, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and the British
Institute of Management,Council Member of The Scout Association and Trustee
of various charitable trusts. From 1992-93 Mr. Galpin was President of The
Banker Club
Mr. McCreight is a Founder of GTFNet and a member of the Board of Directors.
He is the Founder and Chairman of McCreight & Company, Inc. Mr. McCreight’s
accomplishments include having been Partner and National Director, Touche
Ross & Company (currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu); Managing Director,
Hayes Hill & Company (currently Towers Perrin) and Managing Director,
The Hay Group. Mr. McCreight’s consulting concentrates on strategy
implementation and large-scale change including mergers, alliances, divestitures,
restructuring and the launching of new businesses.
Tara Kimbrell Cole, Chief Executive
Officer, Founder |
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Is an international entrepreneur with extensive experience in financial
services, the launching of new businesses, product & business development
and solution delivery in challenging, fluid operational environments. A
professional in international commercial finance, Ms. Cole has 19 years
of experience in Europe, Asia and the United States (10 years in Asia).
As a serial innovator, she has been an early mover recognizing opportunities
and solving complex market problems by delivering creative cutting edge
solutions that later became institutionally or widely adopted.
Prior to founding Global Trade Finance Network Ltd.™ (GTFNet),
Ms. Cole was the founder and C.E.O. of International Aval Asia Ltd. ("IAA"),
a company active in intermediation in export finance and the acquisition
and distribution of cross border receivables. IAA was the exclusive Asia
representative for over four years of BB Aval GmbH (“BBA”),
the trade finance (forfaiting) subsidiary of Berliner Bank, Germany. At
the time, Berliner Bank was 59% owned by the city of Berlin, with capital
of USD 6.5 billion.
Prior to founding IAA, Ms. Cole founded a successful boutique merchant
banking company, which acted as a principal in the purchase and sale of
debt assets to domestic and foreign banks. The company specialised in
the financing of letters of credit and insurance company guarantees generated
from private placement investments.
Ms. Cole, a Wharton Alumna, was inducted in January 2003 into The
Wharton Society of Fellows, Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Amongst Ms. Cole's other interests, She is on the executive committee
of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), Singapore;
executive council of Women's Business Connection; the deputy chairman of
the Small Medium Enterprise Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce
and a member of the Financial Women's Association, Singapore. Ms, Cole is
a member of the Women on Boards committee of The International Alliance
for Women (TIAW), a USA based international organization.
Advisor to the Board of Directors
Gerrit J. Tammes (e-mail: gt@TradeFinanceNetwork.com)
is a special advisor to GTFNet’s Board of Directors and Chief Executive
Officer. Mr Tammes?accomplishments include having been the former Vice
Chairman of ING Bank and a long standing Member of the Board of Directors
of The International Finance Corporation, The World Bank Group.
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