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John Storey
Chief Executive Officer
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Bruce Dunnington
Director
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Don Brown
Partner
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Caireen Maule
Manager Cobalt Capital
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  John Clifford Storey: B.Compt (Hons) CA (SA) MBA CAIB(SA)PrIMM

Cobalt Capital CEO
John Storey is the co-founder and CEO of Cobalt Capital.  He was a co-founder and the Group Managing Director of m Cubed Holdings Limited, a JSE listed Financial Services company that managed nearly R60billion in institutional and retail clients investments. During the last 30 years he has set up, bought, merged or run over 40 different businesses.  He has extensive experience in management, negotiation, corporate finance, new business funding, deal making, strategic marketing, turnarounds and business strategy team and has trained a whole generation of leaders who have gone off and incurred their own successes.

John currently holds the following positions:

President and CEO of Earn-a-Car Inc. from August 2007 – Present

Earn-a-car provides mid to low-range automobiles to individuals with sub-prime credit on a "rent-to-own" basis. The company's business model is structured to take advantage of the opportunity that exists in the southern African market, where cars for personal and business use are in high demand, but where traditional bank financing is very difficult to access.Earn-a- car Inc is listed on the baby NASDAQ.  See http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/EACR:US for more information.

CEO of Intellilinq from  July 2010 – Present

Intellilinq is the most powerful national payments surveillance system in the world today. It provides national governments with complete, accurate, reliable, relevant, timeous, cost effective and integrated analysis of key national payments data. It integrates the payments data across all domestic commercial banks and different payment streams.The unique abilities of Intellilinq include comprehensive financial surveillance of the payment system, bank supervision support, economic reporting, exchange Control and foreign payment management and VAT and Transfer Pricing Tax enforcement.  See www.intellilinq.com for more information.

CEO of Leisure Investment Capital t/a Jacaranda Casinos from  July 2010 – Present

Leisure Investment Ltd owns the Jacaranda Casinos group, the largest casino group in Nigeria. See http://www.jacarandacasino.com/ for further details.

CAREER RESUME

2010 - Current :
Joint founder and CEO of Intellilinq
2007 - Current :
Joint founder / CEO Earn-a-car Inc.
2006 - Current :
Joint founder / CEO Leisure Investment Capital (Pty) Ltd – t/a Jacaranda Casinos
2005 - Current :
Joint founder / CEO Cobalt Capital – private equity and business incubator
1998 - 2005 :
Group MD and CEO m Cubed Holdings and its predecessors
1997 - 1998 :
Set up m Cubed Capital Holdings
1993 - 1996 :
Head : Special Projects/Products Division - Investec Bank / Director of various group companies.
1991 - 1993 :
Metboard Limited - Financial Controller until Investec merger
1987 - 1991 :
Ernst & Young Chartered Accountants (SA) Manager in Audit Division - Banking and IT Specialist)
1981 - 1986 :
Barclays Bank Limited / Military service

http://za.linkedin.com/in/johncstorey/


 Bruce John Dunnington: B.Com (DipAcc) CA (SA), FCMA

Cobalt Capital Director
Bruce Dunnington is the co-founder and Director of Cobalt Capital. He has broad general business and operational management experience, at senior executive level, within large South African financial services and other organizations along with extensive IT experience in delivering IT system solutions and management of IT at all levels in a diverse range of organizations. Focused, disciplined and goal orientated, he works well under pressure, in deadline situations within time and budget parameters. Effectively handles several and diverse projects simultaneously.

Bruce currently holds the following positions:

CFO of Earn-a-Car Inc. from August 2007 – Present

Earn-a-car provides mid to low-range automobiles to individuals with sub-prime credit on a "rent-to-own" basis. The company's business model is structured to take advantage of the opportunity that exists in the southern African market, where cars for personal and business use are in high demand, but where traditional bank financing is very difficult to access. Earn-a- car Inc is listed on the baby NASDAQ. See http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/EACR:US for more information.

CFO of Intellilinq from July 2010 – Present

Intellilinq is the most powerful national payments surveillance system in the world today. It provides national governments with complete, accurate, reliable, relevant, timeous, cost effective and integrated analysis of key national payments data. It integrates the payments data across all domestic commercial banks and different payment streams. The unique abilities of Intellilinq include comprehensive financial surveillance of the payment system, bank supervision support, economic reporting, exchange Control and foreign payment management and VAT and Transfer Pricing Tax enforcement. See www.intellilinq.com for more information

Director of Leisure Investment Capital t/a Jacaranda Casinos from July 2010 – Present

Leisure Investment Ltd owns the Jacaranda Casinos group, the largest casino group in Nigeria. See http://www.jacarandacasino.com/ for further details.

CAREER RESUME

2010 - Current :
Joint founder and CFO of Intellilinq
2007 - Current :
Joint founder / COO Earn-a-car Inc.
2006 - Current :
Joint founder / COO Leisure Investment Capital (Pty) Ltd – t/a Jacaranda Casinos
2006 - Current :
Joint founder / COO Cobalt Capital – private equity and business incubator
1997 - 2006 :
Founder of Automated Outsourcing Services Limited
1995 - 1997 :
Investec Bank – Head Investec Unit Trust Company
1991 - 1995 :
Standard Merchant Bank Ltd / Asset Management Division
1982 - 1991 :
Deloitte Pim Goldby / Military service
 

www.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-dunnington/2/2bb/586/


 Ian Young
Ian started his career in the casino business in London in 1964. He has worked with several hotel, leisure and casino groups over the years, and has extensive experience in the gaming industry, including legislation and licensing.

Ian joined Sun International in 1991 and was part of the opening team of The Palace and Lost City developments. He was also a founding director of Global Resorts which built and operated hotels and casino resorts in Botswana as well as the first legal casino in South Africa, in Mpumalanga. He also successfully applied for the Caesars Palace Casino license. Ian recruited and trained all staff for these operations, which totaled nearly 4 000 people.

In 1998, Ian was appointed Managing Director of Emerald Safari Resort and Casino, and subsequently designed, built and recruited 1 100 staff members to run the entire resort.

In 2002, he started his own consultancy business, offering his expertise on all aspects of the Leisure and Hotel related industries. Ian is a founding director of Leisure investments Capital.
 Don Brown
Don Brown is an actuary who has spent most of his career in the insurance industry.
Don was MD of Momentum Employee Benefits until mid 2004. Prior to this he developed and managed Southern Life's Risk Management Consultancy.
He established Nexus to develop innovative insurance solutions particularly in Employee Benefits.

 Caireen Maule: B.Com (Acct)

Caireen manages the finance and internal controls of all Cobalt Capital’s various investments. She has an in depth understanding of each entities operations and provides the extra controls, segregation and protection that these growing businesses need while mentoring that units own team of professionals.

Caireen currently holds the following positions:

Director Earn-a-Car (2007 – Present)
As a director Caireen provide oversight and mentoring to the finance team and ensures internal controls are properly implemented and applied. Caireen is expert in the US reporting and statutory requirements of this baby NASDAQ listed company and was part of the team that listed EACR. She is also responsible for managing our SEC relationship and managing all reporting requirements. See http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001486297&owner=exclude&count=40

Manager of Leisure Investment Capital t/a Jacaranda Casinos from July 2010 – Present

Leisure Investment Ltd owns the Jacaranda Casinos group, the largest casino group in Nigeria. See http://www.jacarandacasino.com/ for further details. Ciareen is part of the team preparing this entity for listing on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

CAREER RESUME

2006 - Current :
Financial manager Leisure Investment Capital (Pty) Ltd – t/a Jacaranda Casinos
2006 - Current :
Finance and operations Manager Cobalt Capital – Private equity and business Incubator
2002 - 2006 :
Financial Accountant Saxum Reinsurance. Assisted with the acquisition of Gerling Reinsurance by Saxum Reinsurance companies also seconded as an intern online stock broker E*Trade to assist with financial management
1996 - 2000 :
Audit Senior at TCG Chartered Accountants Johannesburg.

 


   
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