Namibia Workshop SANUMARC Univeristy of Namibia, Hentiesbay 3 - 5 June 2010

Presenter Biographies

FINANCING BIO-FUEL PROJECTS: A PRACTICAL WORKSHOP

A practical approach to financial planning using a user-friendly financial model to illustrate the basic principles of project finance as well as the specific bio-fuel revenue models will be presented. The session will also demonstrate how to combine strategic and financial planning to improve the overall business case. The session is in inter-active workshop format (live financial model projected onto a large screen) using an audience selected example.

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After receiving his finance & economics undergraduate degree, Mr Höck continued with post graduate degrees in economics at the Universities of Cape Town and KwaZulu/Natal.

He spent four years at the Development Bank of South Africa, involved in their trainee programme and project finance division, before co-founding the Habitat for Humanity (South Africa).

He was the CEO of Rural Finance for 11 years, which was a leading affordable housing and microenterprise finance institution consisting of 100 staff with 12,000 clients.

He was the Senior Transactor at Rand Merchant Bank for 3 years, in the affordable housing business unit.

Since 2004 he is the Head of Financial Structuring at Pan-African Capital, including managing the investment pipeline of the KwaZulu/Natal Growth Fund (approvals of R500 million) and the Northern Cape Growth Fund.

Mr Höck’s focus is on private equity, development finance, renewable energy, aquaculture and transport.

He is a Micro Finance Regulatory Council (MFRC) board member (which is now the National Credit Regulator), an international conference speaker and policy advisor on micro-credit, and involved in the senior executive leadership programme. He also developed an interactive strategic financial planning tool for entrepreneurs, which is now marketed as a stand-alone product.