Kuveshen Chetty, Head of CIB Portfolio Management & Analytics, Nedbank CIB 

Kuveshen Chetty is passionate about risk management and its critical role in protecting and growing the financial services sector. As a prominent advocate of credit portfolio management in South Africa, he has first-hand experience of the need for greater understanding on the interplays of various risk types in effective financial resource management.?

With more than two decades’ experience, including several years spent establishing and optimising active credit portfolio management functions, Kuveshen brings significant experience and a global and regional network. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Finance), is a Member of the Institute of Financial Markets, a Certified Financial Risk Manager, and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst. He is Head of Portfolio Management & Analytics at Nedbank CIB, Co-Director of the Johannesburg Chapter for the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and a Director at the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers.

Rémy Haimet, Managing Director, Société Générale, Global Banking & Advisory 

Rémy Haimet has extensive experience in investment banking, including transaction origination, structuring, execution, and placement. He is a specialist in the design and implementation of highly customised, large-scale financing with large corporates across the world.

Rémy joined Société Générale in 1987, and has been Managing Director, Global Banking & Advisory since 2011. Remy is responsible for prudential regulation within the bank’s wholesale banking division. This includes following and analysing the constant stream of new regulations, participating in industry efforts to improve proposed regulations, ensuring adequate recognition of risk-mitigation structures (specialised lending and securitisation), and implementing new rules and internal cost allocation.

Rémy holds an MBA from HEC Paris.

Apler Kilic, Global Head of Project and Export Finance, Standard Chartered Bank 

Alper Kilic joined Standard Chartered Bank in 2008 and has held various leadership roles including Regional Head of Corporate Finance, Europe, and Regional Head of Loan Syndications, Africa. With operations across eight continents, Alper oversees the provision of financial advisory and financing solutions to support clients on a wide range of infrastructure projects, as well as the delivery of export credit agency-backed financing across different geographies and industries. 

Alper has long-established transaction experience in acquisition financing, structured loans, project finance, and loan syndications. He has extensive expertise working with multilateral agencies, development finance institutions, and export credit agencies, and has worked with clients across infrastructure, power, oil and gas, telecommunications, financial institutions, and the public sector.

Alper has an MBA from the University of Dallas and a BSc in Metallurgical Engineering and Material Science from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.

Chris McHugh, Senior Advisor, International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers

Chris McHugh is a Senior Advisor to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM) and also runs an independent consulting business. He was the founder and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance at The London Institute of Banking & Finance and a faculty member lecturing on derivatives, risk management, and sustainability.

Chris has more than 30 years’ experience in financial markets, structuring and trading fixed income derivatives across a range of asset classes. His principal interests relate to development and sustainable finance and the interaction of public and private sector financial markets, in particular the mobilisation of private capital in support of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Chris holds a PhD from Southampton University, an MBA from London Business School, and an MA from Cambridge University.

Ettie Philitas, Executive Director, Head of Infrastructure Debt, J.P. Morgan Private Capital 

Ettie Philitas is Head of Infrastructure Debt for J.P. Morgan Asset Management. He is also a member of the Infrastructure Debt Group’s Investment Committee and a Portfolio Manager for J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Private Credit solutions. He was previously an Investment Director with Africa50’s Project Finance team where he originated and managed infrastructure investments across Africa. Prior to his role at Africa50, Ettie was an Associate with the Private Credit team at KKR. He has also worked with the Private Debt team at Muzinich & Co. and with the Leveraged Finance Origination & Restructuring group at Credit Suisse, where he advised clients on over USD19 billion of high-yield and leveraged loan financings. Ettie holds a B.A from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.