New MD at Creditinfo VoLo
Meet Adamou Sambaré
Adamou Sambaré has been appointed as the Managing Director of Creditinfo VoLo in West Africa. As many of you know, Creditinfo was licensed by BCEAO, Central Bank, earlier this year to create a private credit bureau in 8 West African States.
Adamou will lead the startup in these 8 countries that have a combined population of 105.7 million people (as of 2014). No easy task this!
Adamou, native of Niger, graduated from École des Mines de Paris as, one of top universities from France, as an engineer specializing in IT. After a first job in research at a DEC lab in the south of France, and another one with an IT services company, he actually joined BCEAO. At the Central Bank of 8 Western African states, Adamou led some critical infrastructure projects like RTGS (payment systems). It was the time where he started working with our Michel Massain, who was on the RTGS’ supplier side. After BCEAO, Adamou worked as a consultant for the implementation of a few payments systems and banking projects in French speaking Africa, before moving to Orange in Niger, and then in Ivory Coast as CIO and then Quality and Shared Services Director.
CEO at Creditinfo Morocco
Meet Sidimohamed “Sidi” Abouchikhi
Sidi has worked with Experian since September 2010, initially joining the company as Sales and Business Development Manager prior to becoming MD. Sidi brings with him wealth of experience and knowledge of the Finance and Credit industry, not only from his roles at Experian, but alsofrom his role as Risk Manager at BMCE Bank and prior to that, as the Corporate Trust Administrator at JP Morgan Chase.
Sidi holds a Masters of Business Administration in Finance and Financial Management Services from the Cameron School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in Business and Managerial Economics from the University of Hassan II. He is fluent in Arabic, French and English.
In his spare time, Sidi also enjoys volunteer work having previously volunteered with “Bayti” a not for profit organisation which focuses on the social reintegration of children with difficult situations.
Head of Financial Inclusion, Capacity Building & Training in Africa
Meet Agata Szydlowska
Agata has more than 15 years experience working within financial infrastructure frameworks and credit risk management within emerging markets concept, with broad expertise in credit information sharing mechanisms. Having previously worked for the IFC, Agata joins the Credit Bureau Expansion team and will be based in the office in Kenya. Continue reading »
Players of the Month
This month we would like to recognise both an individual and a team.
Andrius Bogdanovicius
This month Andrius, CEO of Creditinfo Lithuania and also Regional Head of Eastern Europe at Creditinfo International GmbH, celebrated 10 years of working with Creditinfo. A few of his colleagues and clients got together to tell us what they think is the key to his success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WY88vW9Yu8
We’d like to thank you for your dedication to the company and for being such a great colleague and boss.
Congratulations, Andrius and we look forward to the next decade!
PS Andrius was also interviewed on National TV this month. You can see him on http://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/80632 go to 59’20” minutes.
New managers at Creditinfo Iceland
There are exciting times ahead for Creditinfo as we grow from strength to strength and our new managers are a good addition to the excellent team which we have already. Continue reading »
Creditinfo's Celebrities
Creditinfo’s Celebrities
At Creditinfo, we have famous people working with us.
Here’s just a few….
Did you know that Stebbi (Stefán Önundarson) atCreditinfo Iceland has appeared in an award winning Hollywood movie with Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5272340/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Player of the Month
Player of the Month
Dalia Mažeikaitė
Customer Service Manager, Dalia Mažeikaitė, entered the Millionaire’s Club, after reaching one million litas sales through her successful career at the company.
Dalia has been working at Creditinfo Lithuania for six years. She is the 5th employee who achieved one million litas sales. Her personal purpose now is to reach one million income calculated in euros!
Sales Millionaires’ Club already includes Jurga, Marijus, Marius and Vytautas.
Joining the Creditinfo Family in Tanzania
Joining the Creditinfo Family in Tanzania
Van Reynders
Van Reynders is the new Head of Sales, Creditinfo Tanzania. Van started out his career in credit risk management solutions by joining a leading international Credit Bureau in South Africa in 2006 and through this he built an impressive track record of sales achievements and advancement through a series of progressively higher responsible positions in sales and sales management. He was also part of a small team of bureau specialists that worked on successfully implementing the first credit bureau in Uganda, East Africa in 2009. When he is not strategizing on building sales pipelines, Van ensures that not a minute of his life is spent indoors than what is deemed absolutely necessary.
A new CEO for Jamaica
A new CEO for Jamaica
RAIG STEPHEN
With over 10 years’ experience in the financial sector, Mr Craig A. Stephen, founding partner of Coalesce Credit Solutions Limited has covered a broad cross-section of financial duties including full operational and administrative management of a Credit Union. In 2006, his skills and attitude awarded him the position of Operations and Administrations Manager at the U.W.I
Fond farewells at Creditinfo Jamaica
At the end of March 2015, Megan Deane, CEO of Creditinfo Jamaica, will sadly part company with us. Having joined the company initially for a two year period, at the end of March, she will have completed three and a quarter years.
Megan told us, “After three plus years of relentless effort in a receptive, but very challenging environment; leading a team of extremely committed staff, I am pleased that Creditinfo Jamaica is the recognized leader in the local credit information marketplace. I feel proud to be associated with this seminal development in our economic space.
I am sanguine that CIJ is poised to really take off in 2015 because of all the groundwork that has been laid, and that the company will achieve its vision: To be the leading Credit Information Bureau in the Caribbean region, providing consistent and reliable credit and other information to our clients, while contributing to national growth and development.
I expect I will continue to be associated with the Group in one way or another, but regardless, will always value the relationships that I have forged.”
The whole team would like to wish Megan continued success and all the very best in her future ventures and look forward to crossing paths in the future.
