Leadership Team

Keith Beekmeyer

Chief Executive Officer, and Director

Keith is an articulate communicator, capable of building lasting relationships with the senior management of clients, partners, vendors both domestically and internationally. A problem solver and deal architect who can create solutions with track record for finding innovative ways to grow revenue and increase margins. He has a history of success in creating structure solution in emerging markets along with initiatives in sales, marketing, and advertising structured product.

Keith has experience in the negotiation of high-level contracts. He is well versed in presentations, accustomed to addressing clients, vendors, partners, shareholders, and corporate board of directors. He has been responsible for and has managed multi-million-dollar budgets with full P&L responsibility.

Andrew Bye

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RISK MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS

Andy is a qualified, and highly experienced risk management and risk finance professional, providing functional responsibility to FTSE 100 or equivalent entities. He has been engaged in the risk profession for in excess of 40 years, holding varied positions both in an employed and a consulting capacity. He has extensive knowledge and skills, gained by operating in both non-regulatory and regulatory environments. His commercial experience is drawn from a wide range of industrial, international and trade sector both in the UK and overseas. In addition, he has extensive experience in financial services, and is actively engaged in supporting professional and institute standard bodies.

Zam Manji

Managing Director for NFG SA

Zam has had over 15 years experience in the financial service sector – both as a private & investment banker.

He started his career in the Fixed Income division of Bear Stearns and JP Morgan in London, before shifting into Private Banking with Royal Bank of Canada Suisse (and Banque SYZ following their acquisition in 2015) in Dubai and Geneva. This was followed with a move to Banque J. Safra Sarasin in Geneva.

He has built strong relations with his clients and partners, with extensive knowledge on Swiss and Emerging markets.

Zam holds a BSc in Computing and Business from the University of Warwick.

Julian Jammine

Chief financial officer

A commercially minded CFO and strategic finance professional. Julian is a big four qualified chartered accountant with over 14 years qualified experience working in financial services and start-up companies. Julian has a range of experience in the asset management and insurance industries that facilitate companies to achieve their growth ambitions in a responsible and sustainable manner.

Prior to joining Newpoint, Julian has been working as a strategic CFO with start-up companies in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector. He has worked with companies and founders to execute on their strategic plans and growth their businesses in a responsible and sustainable manner.

Prior to this Julian spent over a decade in the financial services sector. Julian was the head of finance business operations at Man Group plc. He managed a team of individuals responsible for revenue and cost reporting as well as analytics, budgeting, and forecasting. Julian worked with the group CFO on executing the company’s $150m cost saving plan. Julian was also the group head of insurance, where he worked with external insurance brokers to fully cover the corporate entity as well as investment funds for their respective insurance requirements.

Julian also spent over three years working for Ernst & Young in New York and Johannesburg, where he specialised in financial service clients including large banks and insurance companies.

Charlotte Loucaides

Company secretary

 

 

Charlotte has graduated with a BA Honours degree in History and Politics in 2018 from Queen Mary University of London. 

She is qualified in Company Secretarial Practice and Share Registration Practice with the CGIUKI. She is a contentious Executive Head of Support and Company Secretary with over 4 years of extensive and diverse experience in supporting senior executives, providing high level support to Board level Directors / CEO within the financial sector. Charlotte often meets with clients and interfaces with the Shareholders of the Company. 

She is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of NFG SA and its subsidiary entities by working closely with the executive teams on various mergers and acquisitions, legal and marketing projects.