FFI’s real equity
lies in its human capital. The depth of this capital is demonstrated
by an indication of the experience of
several key staff members.
J.D.
VON PISCHKE is a
founder and President of FFI. He has more than 35 years experience
in finance. He began his career with Chase
Manhattan as a commercial banker in New York, London and Monrovia.
After completing his Ph.D., he joined the World Bank as a financial
analyst, specializing for 20 years in agricultural, rural and industrial
credit projects and in formulating financial sector policy. For two
years he managed USAID’s Financial Sector Development Project
for KPMG’s Barents Group. He has lectured widely, published
seven books and written numerous articles and working papers. The
firm takes its name from his widely read book, Finance at the Frontier
(Washington DC: World Bank, 1991).
Gabriel
Schor, Vice President of FFI
Gabriel Schor has over 15 years of experience with micro credit projects
in Latin America. As a Ph.D. economist and sociologist, he has
had major responsibilities in structuring educational reform programs,
designing and implementing energy strategies and technologies,
promoting regional industrial development, as well as in bank restructuring,
venture capital and agricultural finance. He has helped create
several microfinance institutions and designed a voucher scheme
for demand-driven training courses for microentrepreneurs. Gabriel
Schor is also the ProCredit Holding Manager in charge of the ProCredit
institutions in Latin America.
Rochus
Mommartz, Senior Expert for Controlling and Risk Management
Rochus Mommartz is a highly experienced short-term consultant in
the field of microfinance, with a particular focus on controlling
and risk management. The main focus of his consulting work has
been Latin America and the Caribbean, most recently largely to
the ProCredit institutions via contracts to FFI. For example, he
has overseen the implementation of ABC costing across the ProCredit
institutions in Latin America under the auspices of a project funded
by USAID and IDB. In the early part of his career, he drafted a
strategy paper for the IDB’s Micro Global Programs in various
Latin American countries, for which he also provided backstopping
services. He was also part of an IPC/FFI team charged with analysing
numerous credit-granting NGOs in Latin America. The findings of
this research formed the background to the Technical Guide for
Analyzing NGOs, a seminal text for theorists and practitioners
of microfinance, which Rochus Mommartz co-authored. He has performed
numerous financial sector studies, as well as other studies, such
as the savings banks system in Peru and the credit co-operative
system in Indonesia. In some cases, the financial sector studies
have formed the basis for feasibility studies, which led to the
creation of new microfinance institutions. Based on his broad international
experience, Mr. Mommartz has been called in to provide advisory
assistance to supervisory authorities on the design of regulatory
legislation for the respective country’s microfinance institutions
and on their supervision. For individual credit institutions, he
has prepared business plans detailing their transformation from
finance companies into commercial banks.
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