Key Management Appointment
03/02/2023 07:00
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RNS Number : 7988O Tintra PLC 03 February 2023
3 February 2023
TINTRA PLC
("Tintra", the "Group" or the "Company")
Key Management Appointment
The board of directors (the "Board") of Tintra, the fast-growth Deep Tech
& Banking business, is pleased to announce the appointment of Constantine
Chikosi as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Africa. This position has
been created as the Group continues to cement itself in these regions as a
core element in its plan to build global banking infrastructure driven by
culturally aware Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing
tools.
Mr Chikosi will have a vital role in driving stategy and further developing
the Group's relationships with governments and financial institutions
throughout Africa.
Mr Chikosi is a senior business executive with over 25 years of experience in
emerging markets and high-level global relationships in both public and
private sectors.
After gaining a Masters Degree in Economics, Mr Chikosi joined the Anglo
American mining group, before moving to the London office of the Commonwealth
Secretariat in 1990, qualifying as a Chartered Management Accountant and
becoming Chief Economics Officer.
In 2000 Mr Chikosi joined the World Bank, and in an almost 20 year spell there
held various leadership roles at its Washington DC headquarters and in its
offices in Africa and South East Asia, eventually becoming Regional Director
of Portfolio & Operations (Southeast Asia) in 2013.
Since retiring from his full time position at the World Bank in 2019, he has
remained with them as a Strategic Advisor while building a portfolio of
private sector advisory roles in the UK, Africa and the Indian Ocean. Among
these roles, Mr Chikosi serves on the Board and the Strategy Committee of MCB
Group, owner of Mauritius Commercial Bank, the largest bank in Mauritius and
listed on the local stock exchange, and as a Board Member at Strand Hanson
Ltd, a London-based merchant bank.
Constantine Chikosi commented, "I am delighted to join Tintra PLC as Director
for Strategic Initiatives. Tintra's core mission is to accelerate financial
inclusion in emerging markets by leveraging the predictive capabilities of
artificial intelligence to remove human bias and prejudice in banking
decisions.
The much improved and fairer access to finance that this approach brings will
open doors to a world of development possibilities for individuals,
communities and countries in the emerging markets. That is why I am delighted
to join Tintra. Working within Tintra's dynamic and innovative team, my
immediate priority is to lead the creation of the group's business development
and market penetration strategy in Africa."
Richard Shearer, Tintra's CEO, said, "The first time we met it quickly became
evident to me that Constantine Chikosi's textured knowledge of parts of the
world I know rather well was so many levels above my own that it opened up a
new frame of possibilities and solutions in my thinking.
I am humbled by the fact that our vision is shared by someone with such vast
experience of being able to turn vision into reality through smart strategy
and deliverable tactics.
As we move from vision and philosophy into our execution phase I am supremely
comfortable that our Africa strategy will be equal to our vision driven by the
depth of experience Constantine brings to this new role.
We continue to drive solutions that deal with the aims and intents set out by
governments, regional and bodies international bodies such as the IMF and
World Bank.
I welcome Constantine to Tintra and I very much look forward to the journey
together as we use Artificial Intelligence to drive Real Change."
For further information, contact:
Tintra PLC 020 3795 0421
(Communications Head)
Hannah Haffield
h.haffield@tintra.com
Website www.tintra.com
Allenby Capital Limited 020 3328 5656
(Nomad, Financial Adviser & Broker)
John Depasquale / Nick Harriss / Vivek Bhardwaj
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