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| Speaker's Profile |
| Name: |
Stephen Cashin |
| Title: |
Chief Executive Officer |
| Company: |
FUND MANAGERS, LLC |
| Industry: |
Banking |
| Profile |
Mr. Cashin is a founder and has served as Managing Director and head of the Washington Office of Modern Africa Fund Managers, LLC since its inception in 1998. He was responsible for identifying the majority of the investors in Modern Africa Growth and Investment Company LLC, a $105 million fund capitalized by private institutional investors and leveraged with the support of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Mr. Cashin has been integrally involved in identifying and structuring Modern Africa’s investments. He serves on the boards of several portfolio companies and is actively involved in developing and implementing the fund’s value creation strategies.
Mr. Cashin is also active as a board member of the Corporate Council on Africa, the African Wildlife Foundation, and has joined the Constituency for Africa. Until recently, he was a board member of the National Summit on Africa and the DEVCap initiative of Catholic Relief Services, and has been a national co-chairman of Africares’s annual Bishop Walker Dinner. He was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International studies and speaks at numerous events focused on the development of Africa’s financial markets. Recent speaking engagements include the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.S. State Department’s inter-ministerial meeting on the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act, the Conference on Sovereign Credit Ratings in Africa and the Corporate Council on Africa’s 2001 Summit on Investment in Africa.
Prior to launching Modern Africa Mr. Cashin was employed by Equator Bank, a member of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation from 1984-1996. He opened Equator’s office in Nairobi, Kenya, and was responsible for developing the bank’s relationships with central banks, international agencies and corporations, particularly in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. In 1993 Mr. Cashin was appointed as the bank’s representative in Washington, D.C. In that capacity, Mr. Cashin managed the bank’s relationships with United States governmental and international agencies, trade organizations, and financial institutions. Later he assumed responsibility for managing the corporate finance portfolio of the bank, advising investor groups, structuring transactions, devising new financial products, and implementing privatization transactions. Mr. Cashin began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1979-1981 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has his MBA from Boston College.
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