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RESUME OF PATRICK JEFFREY

EDUCATION:

Mfantsipim School, Ghana

University of Ghana, Legon, BA. Economics

Commercial French, University of Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire

Strayer University, MIS Degree, Washington D.C. USA

EXPERIENCE:

Thought Economics and Politics at St Augustine’s’ College, Ghana, 1983-85 as part of my National Service

Studied Commercial French at the University D’Abidjan, Ivory Coast 1985-86. Before going to the United States in 1986.

Started a Master’s Program in Information Systems at Strayer University in the Washington DC metropolitan Area. In 1989 till 1991.

Did my first work study program with Mobile Oil when it moved from New York to Northern Virginia. Later on worked full time (before the merger with Exxon) in the Accounts Department at the Corporate Head office, Fairfax, Virginia. 1991-92

November 1992 hired away from Mobile Oil by Baytree Investors Inc., a merchant Banking Firm that specializes in buying and selling companies. Headquartered in Chicago, but, I worked at the Mid Atlantic office in Alexandria, Virginia as a merger and acquisition expert who made a determination as to which companies were ripe for acquisition in the region. Became head of the Mid-Atlantic office in Alexandria, Virginia from 1993-95.

President/Owner of Nino Securities Inc. The company specialized in arranging funds from the capital markets in coordination with its partners in New York for various projects around the world. It also provided Accounts Receivable Financing for 8(a) contractors in the Washington DC area. 1995-99. Attempted to buy and sell companies as done by Baytree Investors Inc., but, was unsuccessful because of the lack of sufficient capital.

Private Placement transactions in collaboration with other partners in the capital market in New York like Structured Capital Group Inc. Mainly project and trade transactions from all round the world. Travelled extensively to different parts of the world to document projects and bring them to New York for funds to be arranged from the capital market there for them. 1995-2000

International Financial Services Inc. (IFS) on Wall Street as a currency analyst and trader. IFS invested funds for companies and individuals at the market. Trained and worked as an analyst of the major currency market where the 5 majors are fundamentally and technically analyzed on daily basis to make a determination on the expected direction of the market and where the company’s investible resources should be invested at. 2000-05

President of NGO FAMM AFRIK in Cameroon. NGO provided affordable social security products for the population. Hired and trained over 5,000 workers. Had 47 offices nationwide and 17 clinics with 995,000 affiliates, mainly at the informal sector of the workforce. From 2005-10. NGO went through a period of blatant expropriation by the Government of Cameroon. Most of the medical infrastructure were destroyed by our refusal to let the party in power participate as a non- paying member with yearly dividends paid to it. The Finance Ministry also confiscated all the saved up pension funds to a tune of 1.7millard FCFA. I, then, went back to New York with a skeleton staff left in place in Cameroon.

Prudential Securities & Insurance in New York. Specialized in various insurance and investment products sold by the company. Procured the Insurance & Investment License in 2010.

President of the reconstituted NGO FAMM AFRIK. The emphasis still on social security products, especially the delivery of affordable healthcare. In November 2014, the NGO was invited by the Government of Senegal to come and implement its brand of the Social Security system in the country. The program started the next year when all the licenses and regulatory approvals were granted in May, 2015. The NGO hired and trained 260 personnel on the mechanics of the social security system. The training started in October, 2015 and finished in March, 2016. The field work started in June with a promise by United Bank of Africa to assume the initial four months salaries of the employees. But, the bank renegaded on its promise and the field work came to a stop. A year was spent unsuccessfully in various attempts to revive the project till the management, finally decided to abandon the project at the end of 2018.

February – May 2019: The new Prime Minister of Cameroon invited the NGO to come and reconstitute its social security program that it abandoned after the expropriation some years back. All the required business plans and request for the necessary regulatory approvals have been submitted for review as requested by the government.

HOBBIES: Running, sports in general, reading and travelling.

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