Steering Committee TTG

THE TTG

STEERING COMMITTEE

COMMITTED TO CHANGING THE WAY WE CHANGE THE WORLD

STEERING COMMITTEE

OF THE TRANSFORMATION GAMES

Steering Committee members bring broad personal experience, knowledge and skills to their role at TTG.

Members have set up and owned companies, led or worked in key roles in many sectors including diplomacy, media, healthcare, events, exhibitions, broadcasting, global charities, consultancy, private equity, the World Economic Forum, film, law, leisure, trading, private equity and finance.

They served on committees, boards and advisory roles in the private sector and some in government. Profiles may be viewed when you place your cursor on a name.

Arriving in the MENA region as the first employee of Dubai World Trade Centre, Guy was responsible for sales and marketing, exhibitions and leasing. He led the team through the ‘80s, as GM & Director, setting new standards and achieving high occupancy. He launched several exhibitions (including GITEX), establishing the Trade Centre as the #1 business address in the GCC.

He led business missions internationally to promote Dubai, co-founding the Dubai Business & Tourism Development Board, as well as serving on the founding board of directors of the Emirates Golf Club and World Trade Club.

In Asia, he led the expansion of an international private club business, as Head of Business Development, from 4 operating Clubs to 32 – in 16 countries in under 5 years.

In both Asia and the UK, he was an equity partner in leisure consulting businesses advising developers and banks with leisure assets, on strategies to navigate recessions in UK/Europe (1990/2) and Asia (1997/9). From International Leisure Consultants (“ILC”), he was seconded for 18 months as Group GM of Asia’s leading yacht business, Simpson Marine, to execute the turnaround recommended.

After returning to Dubai in 2004, he founded Signature Clubs International (“SCI”), securing funding from Abraaj Capital. SCI opened premier business clubs, each known as the Capital Club, first in the DIFC, Dubai, then in Bahrain, in Nairobi, forming distinguished Boards of Governors and attracting shareholders and members. For Capital Club Lagos, recently opened, Guy’s role included research, formation and on-boarding of boards, committees and shareholders.

During his role as CEO of SCI, he became advisor, director, executive coach/trainer and connector to businesses in the region.

Educated at Winchester College and Bristol University, Guy enjoys travel, literature, and history. He is an avid follower of business innovation and geo-political changes. He loves helping disruptive businesses and stimulating idea-exchange and runs programmes on people skills for corporations. Guy was invited to join the philanthropic initiative TTG in 2018 and serves as Chair of its Steering Committee.

Isaac K. Fokuo has 20 years of experience in change and project management, supply-chain management, and business development. Isaac was honored as a Desmond Tutu Fellow in 2014. He earned his MBA from DePaul University, MA from the University of Chicago, and BA from Hanover College.

Mr. Fokuo’s long-life goal has been to be part of a generation of leaders committed to “building transformative businesses in Africa.” That mission has led him to become involved in groundbreaking deals and innovative projects as an entrepreneur, as an implementer, and occasionally, as an investor.

Isaac is the founder of Botho Limited, a strategic advisory firm specializing in investments in emerging markets. There is one aspect of his approach at Botho Emerging Markets Group that is different: From their internal staff to the external companies they invest in, women are at the core of their company. Botho’s operates with a gender lens that is built on another simple idea: Work with the best. In many cases, “the best” have been truly inspiring women, a definition that has been shaped by the strong female characters in Isaac’s life namely his Mother, Cecilia, who gave Isaac his first taste in business at 11 years old when he worked as a sales clerk in her catering business.

Mr. Fokuo, also served as the CEO of the African Leadership Network (ALN), a vibrant membership community of Africa’s most dynamic and influential new-generation leaders. Isaac is a member of the China-Africa Wildlife Conservation Council (CAWCC), an Aspen Institute and Africa Wildlife Foundation Initiative and Advisor to the China Tech Initiative. Isaac is also the founder of Sino Africa Center of Excellence Foundation (SACE), a Nairobi based Think Tank whose mandate is to promote China-Africa economic exchanges through trade and investment.

These initiatives are Isaac’s way of ensuring ownership of the African narrative and supporting local entrepreneurship to achieve the goal of African prosperity. Isaac’s ultimate purpose is to do his part to make the world a better place, for his children and generations to come.

MBChB, PhD. FRCPath. FFPath. MBA. FRSM.

Dr Peter Cruse is a former South African national medical Rhodes Scholar to Oxford University, former Chief Specialist Pathologist at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, UCT Professor and Head of Anatomical Pathology and MBA gold medalist. He is an experienced leader and manager of multi-site and multi-country hospitals, clinics and medical laboratories in the Middle East and Africa. Peter is a natural leader who grows healthcare professionals, provides principled healthcare team leadership and mentors Medical Rhodes Scholars in Oxford, UK, where he lives.

Multi-country experience: As a UK-trained Specialist Histopathologist with an MBA and over forty years of practical clinical and business management experience, the career of Dr Cruse has successfully combined clinical patient service with senior hospital, departmental and transformational business team leadership positions. He has led or worked in complex multi-site healthcare institutions in both the public and private sectors in five countries. He has extensive, full-time private equity experience of both investment fund-raising and deal-making. This has included funding and commissioning four hospitals and ten polyclinics in five countries, as well as operational management of large multi-site healthcare organisations.

Deal making, Leadership and Advisory Experience in Healthcare: Among other senior healthcare positions he has held in the UAE, Peter was Group Chief Medical Officer and Interim CEO of Welcare Hospital, where he helped to raise the investment funding to create Emirates Healthcare (owned jointly by Varkey Group, GE healthcare and Mediclinic) to build and commission City Hospital in DHCC, Dubai; He was the founding Director of Clinical Affairs for Emaar Healthcare, which build the giant Dubai Mall Medical Centre, and was CEO of Clinical Pathology Services LLC and Executive director of Crescent Enterprises, Part of Crescent Petroleum. Peter is currently Chief Medical Officer and Partner in Gulf Healthcare Associates ( www.gulfha.com)

International Fund-raising: Peter is currently enjoying the philanthropic phase of his life. Over the past twenty years, he has systematically helped “Pay it Forward” to all the institutions which educated him, namely

Helping to raise R40M for the Pretoria Boys High School Endowment (https://pbhsob.com/index.php?page=fundraising),
Helping to plan, fund and build and commission the new UCT Private Academic Hospital inside Groote Schuur Hospital, his alma mater (http://www.ucthospital.co.za/) and
Helping the Rhodes trust to raise over £250 Million as a new endowment to extend the Rhodes scholarships to 20 countries (from 16) and the number of scholars from 83 to over 100 (https://www.rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk/news-events/second-century-annual-report/)

Kim went to university in London at 16 and left to set up her own Interior Design business at the age of 18. By the age of 21 and numerous projects later Kim’s company was voted one of Hong Kong’s top ten design companies, beating over 7,000 other established companies in Asia. Kim consulted on a number of Interior Design projects during this time, in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and France.

Kim believes that creatives and critical thinkers like herself are designers. Their role is to immerse themselves in the everyday world, absorb or sense cultural changes, values and market trends, and use their brains and guts to create responsible and courageous concepts. Their job is to be the ambassadors between corporations and the marketplace, the link that creates the language of emotion. Designers are often known solely for their designs – the expression of their imagination – but at their best they also can be an incredible driving force as “conceptual provocateurs.” Heartfelt design is passionate and encompasses a desire to make the world a better place.

After leaving her company, Kim devoted her time to research and analysis of countries and systems, seeking a viable methodology to change the world and its underlying systems, peacefully and effectively. She also worked for periods in research, exhibitions and real estate.

Over time Kim, working with other volunteers and friends from time to time, Kim developed a blueprint for a sustainable, member-based economic community designed to work in parallel with global financial and monetary systems and redress systemic flaws inherent in each. Elements of the system included alternative mechanisms that would generate both financial profits and planetary benefits, including global, commodity-backed parallel currencies, full-reserve banking systems, regenerative commerce, ethical investment funds, social networking, inclusive governance, etc.

Kim is the founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of TTG, a movement and platform in support of the Global Goals, acting as an accelerator, aggregator and connector, which will be launched after incubation is completed in 2019.

Frederic Sicre’s expertise lies in building public affair strategies for large or fast-growing global companies. Fred has a recognized track record of building relationships of trust with stakeholders as well as launching strategic initiatives to support business development, brand building and global CEO positioning in a complex and fast changing world. His vast network of relationships includes leaders in politics, business, civil society, arts and international organizations around the world.

Mr. Sicre spent 14 years as a Managing Director/ Partner of a $ 10 bn + global private equity firm focused on emerging markets. Having joined the firm nearly from inception he was responsible for creating the company’s brand and building key stakeholder relationships around the world to support investor relations and deal flow. During this time, he also identified and managed the firm’s global partnerships in culture, innovation, youth and entrepreneurship. He led all community engagement initiatives working with over 70 regional and international organizations. He also represented the private equity industry in the elaboration of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s).

Earlier in his career Frederic Sicre spent 16 years at the World Economic Forum where he developed Africa and the Middle East as new markets for the institution. He worked closely with global CEO’s of the world’s largest companies and political leaders such as Nelson Mandela, Frederik De Klerk, Simon Peres, Yasser Arafat, US / European governments and many others. Mr. Sicre eventually joined the Forum’s Managing Board to lead the Center for Regional Strategies. He was responsible for WEF strategy around the world and major components of the Davos Annual Meeting.

Mr. Sicre has sat on corporate and not for profit boards including Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, Dubai Cares, Education for Employment, Media Quest Publishing, Karachi Electric Company, United Nations Business for Peace.

He is a member of the World President’s Organization (YPO) and Editor of South Africa at Ten – a book celebrating the country’s first decade into democracy.

Frederic grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from Villanova University in Philadelphia, received a fellowship at Stanford University and holds an MBA from IMD in Switzerland.

Peter Wheeler is known as an innovator, creative thinker, problem solvers and an architect of transformative programming for major events around the world. He has proven expertise in developing multi-year partnerships within government, business, sports, entertainment, media and educational sectors.

Currently, Wheeler is the Managing Director of JLC Productions Middle East and is responsible for leading and expanding business opportunities within the Middle East for Joe Lewis Company, a full-service broadcast and live events company located in the United States.

Previously, he served as CEO of the Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 and in this role was responsible for the planning, financing and staging of the largest sports and humanitarian event in the world in 2019. Wheeler created the blueprint and recruited a highly talented and diverse staff of 304 colleagues to deliver the Games in an abbreviated planning cycle of only 26 months. The Games featured 7,000 athletes and 2,000 coaches from a record 195 nations who competed in 24 sports while cheered on by more than 500,000 spectators and viewed by millions in 183 nations while supported by more than 20,000 volunteers. It was proclaimed the most successful World Games in Special Olympics 50 year history.

Prior to moving to Abu Dhabi, Wheeler held several executive management positions with Special Olympics since1980. Among the positions held were Executive Producer and Chief of the 50^th Anniversary for the Special Olympics Movement; Chief of Strategic Properties; Chief Communications Officer; Executive Vice President for the Campaign for Special Olympics, Vice President for External Affairs and Executive Director of the 1995 Special Olympics World Games in New Haven, Connecticut , USA.

His diverse portfolio and achievements include oversight of 5 Special Olympics World Games; the first ever major gift and fundraising campaign for Special Olympics surpassing 100 million USD; producer of the Special Olympics China Millennium March, African Hope with Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela 84^th Birthday, The Spirit of Special Olympics Dinner at the White House, Unified Relay Across America, the Special Olympics Unity Cup at FIFA World Cup in South Africa, A Very Special Christmas Music Series, Special Olympics Unity Sports, Global Ambassador Program; and several broadcast and live events including Tee Time Like No Other, Noche de Paz, AVSC 20^th Anniversary Special, Global Family Forum Show, Global Youth Summit, Special Spirit in China Show, and Special Olympics Live.

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