TIMBUKTU 9 AFRICA CONSULTING GROUP

“Facilitating Sustainable Win Win Solutions in Africa”

“Facilitating Sustainable Win Win Solutions in Africa”

September 18, 2013

Contents

1.  Founding Associates 2.  Strategic Services 3.  Our Deliverables 4.  Countries of Origin & Work Experience 5.  Benefits of Working with us 6.  Founding Associates Profiles

6.1 Alrina de Bruyn 6.2 Aqualine Suliali 6.3 Jean Chawapiwa 6.4 Koffi Kouakou 6.5 Nonye Mpho Omotola 6.6 Siza Majola 6.7 Wahne Tubman

7. Timbuktu9 Africa Consulting Group SWOT 8. Our Values

Introduction

IF YOU WANT TO GO QUICKLY, GO ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO GO FAR, GO TOGETHER.

- AFRICAN PROVERB

Alrina de Bruyn Alrina de Bruyn has an M.Com Business Management (MBA) degree from the University of Johannesburg, and has more than 15 years experience within the Research, Information & Records / Document Management, Archiving and Project Management fields.

Aqualine Suliali Aqualine has a Bachelors Degree from Rutgers University. She has a certificate from the Rutgers Center For Management Development for a Mini MBA in Finance Essentials.

Jean Snikiwe Chawapiwa She has extensive experience in External Affairs, Communication and Media in the mining sector, which included work on several divestments and acquisitions. She also represented the Mining companies on Chamber of Mines; BLSA (Business Leadership South Africa; WEF Africa; Nepad Business Forum (NBF); African Union; Mining Indaba & various other forums and conferences; wide ranging national as well as various other African and international government meetings and engagements.

Koffi Kouakou Koffi is a senior lecturer at the Wits University Public and Development Management (P&DM) where he teaches Strategic Government Communications and Scenario Planning. He is the former Director of the Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy for Communications and Marketing (UMRA), a Storyteller, Social Commentator, Business Strategist, Author and Futurist.

Nonye Mpho Omotola Nonye Mpho Omotola is a Brand Strategist and consults for a number of corporates across Africa. She is also a Freelance Writer for Forbes Woman Africa Magazine and contributes to a number of media titles. She was also recently a Guest Lecturer at Gordon’s Institute of Business to full time MBA students on Executing Marketing Strategies in Africa. Siza Majola With over ten years combined experience in mining and education sectors, Siza possesses a broad range of leadership, management, commercial, technical (mining-exploration),strategy formulation, stakeholder management, communications, facilitation and project management skills.

Wahne Tubman Wahne Tubman is a User Experience Designer, User Researcher, Strategist and part-time Web Developer. She has over 13 years experience designing software interfaces, conducting user research, managing design teams and spearheading the design phase of technology projects for companies including Goldman Sachs, Chase and HBO.

T9 Founding Associates

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T9 Strategic Services

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1. Business, Country & Development Strategies aligned to Scenario planning

2.1 Communication strategy, planning and management 2.2 Change management & Reputation management 2.3 External affairs & stakeholder mapping & engagement 2.4 Branding for Africa 2.5 Media management, tracking, relationship building and training

2. Investment Linkages 2.1 Foreign Investors & African Investors 2.2 Finding the opportunities and markets 2.3 Investment linkages for investment companies that assists clients

to improve their competitiveness and long term success

3. Africa Information 3.1 Beyond the bad news, information to help your investment,

build strategic relationships and position your brand 3.2 Information to ensure your stakeholder engagement and

communication is effective 3.3 Informative on the ground research from people who know,

understand and live on the continent and see the huge potential for all

4. Executive Coaching and Leadership Development 4.1 Ensuring the pipeline of African leaders 4.2 Supporting those at the very senior levels internally and externally

5. Unique leadership workshops & team building around your Strategy

5.1 Asking the difficult questions 5.2 Bringing Africa into the Boardroom 5.3 Ensuring your information is correct and taking

6. Creative Conferencing & Exclusive Events 6.1 Extensive experience in large conference planning and

implementation 6.2 Networks to deliver exclusive events and appropriate guests who

represent the best of diverse Africa

7. Innovative IT Platforms to deliver services 7.1 Ensuring technology is part of the delivery

8. Information management and Records/Document Management

8.1 Extensive experience to plan and implement

9. Document control and archiving

10.Supporting strategic communication 10.1 Speeches, statements, Q&As and holding statements to ensure

internal and external strategy/project implementation

Timbuktu9 Africa Consulting Group is passionate and committed to the development of Africa and its people. With our wide ranging Africa experience, love for communication & branding, interest in innovation and technology and extensive networks we partner to find Win Win Solutions in Africa by advising and delivering:

•  Africa strategies and implementation plans •  Speeches, statements, Q&As and holding statements to ensure internal and external strategy/project implementation •  Informative on the ground research from people who know, understand and live on the continent and see the huge potential for all •  Innovation and innovative ideas and platforms •  Investment linkages for investment companies that assists clients to improve their competitiveness and long term success.

We work with international and local clients in wide ranging industry sectors, these include the private sector, public sector and non-governmental. Our information and strategic support improves their understanding of the continent and improves their ability to succeed in Africa's emerging markets.

Our team has extensive experience of working for the private and public sector, understanding the needs of the investors and shareholders globally as well as having an understanding of the struggles of development in Africa, the desires of the African governments to improve the continent for its people, the increasing expectations from the people of Africa and the challenging dynamic of getting to a Win Win Solution for all.

Our unique selling proposition lies in our global experiences, Africa understanding, and desire to be part of the solution in Africa.

Our Deliverables

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T9 Countries of Origin& Work Experience

Origin

Ivory Coast Liberia Malawi Nigeria South Africa Zimbabwe

Work Experience

Zimbabwe Tanzania South Africa Namibia Mozambique Madagascar Ivory Coast Guinea Ethiopia Democratic Republic of Congo Angola United Kingdom United States of America

Ivory Coast Liberia Nigeria South Africa

Zimbabwe

DRC Madagascar

Mozambique

United Kingdom

USA

Zimbabwe South Africa

Ivory Coast

Tanzania

Guinea

Angola

Ethiopia

Malawi

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Informed Strategies

Excellent strategy that helps you keep up with the dynamic Africa Marketplace

The Timbuktu9 team works with their clients to understand the various local and international dynamics leading to the investment or project implementation. We partner to inform the strategy not only from the company perspective but also from the economic, political and social aspects of the country, adding the relevant emerging regional opportunities and challenges. We provide informed data from local experts. We ask the challenging questions and give the good, bad and ugly of each country – but also work with the client to provide strategic plans, networks and sustainable solutions for business growth, strategic positioning and improved reputation.

We hold your hand so that you can focus your energies on the business.

Investment Advisory Our understanding and on the ground witness to the growing investment trends and market capital flows mean that we are in an excellent position to give you reliable, informed advise. Our combined experience in extractive industries, FMCG, Executive Education, Banking, Investment and IT across Africa will enable you to get the bigger picture in order to make informed investment decisions. Understanding and managing the regulatory hurdles – starting your plans with the right stakeholder map and engagement strategy.

Adding diversity to your team Our Africa team allows for that instant diverse thinking and inputs. Our team of intelligent, well travelled, experienced professionals will quickly understand your business, challenges, opportunities and advise to help your leadership team lead.

Organisations need diversity to become more creative, identify opportunities and open to change. Maximising and capitalising on workplace diversity has become an important issue for management today.

Benefits of working with us

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Founding Associate Profiles

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Profile Alrina de Bruyn has more than 15 years experience within the Research, Information & Records / Document Management, Archiving and Project Management fields. Not only has she worked within the Banking & Financial industry, she has also worked extensively within the Mining industry, which gives her a very diverse field of experience.

Passionate about Corporate Social Investment, Alrina has been involved in HIV/Aids information and teaching projects that reach into corporates and communities. Previously she was also involved in a Grow Acceleration programme which gave direct feedback to the Deputy Minister of Health at the time. She has attended HIV/Aids programme Master Training in Singapore on this and recently received an award for ‘Living the Values’ from Technology and Operations.

Alrina de Bruyn has an M.Com Business Management (MBA) degree from the University of Johannesburg.

She is very creative and a collector of artworks, both the old masters and young and upcoming South African & African art.

Work Experience/Companies worked for: Standard Chartered Bank, KPMG, Central Rand Gold & CSIR

Alrina de Bruyn

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Profile Aqualine Suliali has extensive experience from her own consultancy firm established in 2008 when she moved to South Africa from the USA. She has worked on various projects for Liberty Properties, Anglo Platinum, Standard Bank, Wes Bank, Liberty and ESCOM.

Prior to relocating to South Africa, Aqualine was a Director at Community Investment Strategies, a real estate development firm in New Jersey, USA. She created and developed the management structure for the Property Management division. Previous to that, she worked at Conifer Realty, a real estate development firm as a Project Manager responsible for the management of affordable housing development projects and urban redevelopment efforts, including acquisition, predevelopment and financing.

Aqualine has a Bachelors Degree from Rutgers University. She has a certificate from the Rutgers Center For Management Development for a Mini MBA in Finance Essentials.

Work Experience/Companies worked for: Liberty Properties, Anglo Platinum, Standard Bank, Wes Bank, Liberty, ESCOM, Community Investment Strategies, Conifer Realty

Aqualine Suliali

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Profile Jean Chawapiwa is one of the few women who have reached the top in the South African mining industry, working at senior levels in the strategic communication and external affairs/government relations portfolios of three global mining companies, Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold and Placer Dome. During this time her corporate portfolio supported businesses in South Africa, Namibia, Guinea, Madagascar, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, DRC, and Tanzania.

Her extensive senior management experience included work on several investments and acquisitions in Africa; working on several CEO, Chairman, Board and Executive visits to Africa for Rio Tinto, Barrick and Placer Dome; Design, Execution and Control of Strategies, Vision, Systems and Policies, Stakeholder Mapping & Relations; Community development; Training and Skills Development. She also represented the Mining companies on Chamber of Mines; BLSA (Business Leadership South Africa); WEF Africa; Nepad Business Forum (NBF); African Union; Mining Indaba, Mining Lekgotla & various other forums and conferences; her portfolio also included wide ranging Africa and international government meetings and engagements.

She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and mentoring women and young professionals to play a growing role in Africa’s development, as part of this she continues to sit on the Board of Junior Achievement Africa (JA Africa). She was the first woman to sit on the South African Chamber of Mines Executive Council where she sat for over 6 years ending December 2012. She chaired the Chamber of Mines Communications Committee; also previously sat on the Board of Rio Tinto Management Services; and American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa (AmCham). She has 3 Diplomas in Business Studies (UK); Chartered Institute of Marketing (UK) and Journalism (SA) and has been in leadership development programmes for BT, CSIR and Rio Tinto.

Jean recently set up her own consultancy www.solutions4africa.com utilising her extensive knowledge gained from 9 years in the mining sector.

Work Experience/Companies worked for: Win Win Solutions 4 Africa; Rio Tinto; Barrick Gold; Placer Dome; CSIR; British Telecom

Jean Chawapiwa

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Profile Mr. Kouakou is a senior lecturer at the Wits University Public and Development Management (P&DM) where he teaches Strategic Government Communications and Scenario Planning. He is the former director of the Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy for Communications and Marketing (UMRA), a Storyteller, Social Commentator, Business Strategist, Author and Futurist.

He specialises in information communications technologies for development and telecommunications adapted to environmental issues in Africa. He was the co-ordinator of the Program on Environment Information Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the World Bank. He also served as the co-Director of the CSIR Virtual Reality Solutions in Pretoria, South Africa. He has been a regular contributor to international, local media and business magazines such as the BBC, VOA, Deutsche Welle, The People Daily in China, Brainstorm, The Media, CIO.COM, Intelligence and Brainstorm in South Africa.

He has co-authored a book titled AfricaDotEdu: IT Opportunities and Higher Education in Africa, 2003.

Work Experience/Companies worked for: Wits University (P&DM), Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ), Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy for Communications and Marketing (UMRA), World Bank, Convergence Journal, CSIR Virtual Reality Solutions

Koffi Kouakou

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Profile Nonye Mpho Omotola is a Brand Strategist and consults for a number of corporates across Africa. She is also a freelance writer for several media titles. She was also recently a guest lecturer at Gordon’s Institute of Business to full time MBA students on Executing marketing Strategies in Africa.

Nonye is focused on integrated communications and the growth of economies on the African continent and has been described as a Global African Communicator, a detailed Corporate Strategist as profiled by Marketing World and one of the Key Women in Marketing and Communications in Nigeria by AD News.

Nonye has gained extensive experience within the global branding and advertising spheres and started her career in London at Maynard Leigh Associates; followed by TMP Worldwide. She has worked in a number of leading firms in Europe and in other parts of Africa including Jupiter Drawing Room, Johannesburg; FCB, Durban; and Insight grey, Lagos where she was Director of Strategic Planning and New Business.

She was also the Group Head of Corporate Communications at Oceanic Bank Nigeria (now Ecobank) where she reported directly to the Group Managing Director and achieved great success in the turnaround of a ‘crisis brand’.

Nonye is a holder of a BA Hons in Contemporary Business and Computing from the University of Westminster, London; an Honorary Senior member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and member of several professional bodies including the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations and the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria. She was awarded the Brand Leadership Award at the World Brand Congress in Mumbai India 2011 for her professional efforts; and Top Woman in marketing communications in Nigeria by marketing World 2011 for her creative and strategic excellence.

Born and raised in the UK to South African and Nigeria parents, Nonye’s diverse upbringing and skill set puts her in a position whereby not only is she fully conversant with local and global trends, she is uniquely able to integrate across cultures and lifestyles. Nonye is committed to the positive projection of the African continent and corporations within it and is frequently invited to speak at local and international conferences on Strategic Branding and Business in Africa. Nonye’s personal website: www.nonyemphoomotola.com

Work Experience/Companies worked for: Maynard Leigh Associates, TMP Worldwide, Jupiter Drawing Room JHB, FCB Durban, Insight Grey, Oceanic Ban (now Ecobank) South Africa/Nigeria Chamber of Commerce

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Profile Siza Majola has over ten years experience in the mining and education sectors, which has given her exposure working on projects in various parts of Africa including: South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Mali, Guinea, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Namibia etc. This experience has taught her to be adaptable and work with people from different cultures, diverse languages and remote locations. Siza possesses a broad range of leadership, management, commercial, technical (mining-exploration), strategy formulation, stakeholder management, communications, facilitation and project management skills.

Her technical experience from the mining sector coupled with the stakeholder management and corporate social investment/responsibility skills positioned her well to work with teams that require: leadership, analytical, problem solving, project management, change management and strategy formulation and implementation (getting things done!).

Siza now specialises in Corporate Communications, Government Relations, Stakeholder Relations, Strategy Formulation, Strategy Implementation, Public Relations, Corporate Social Investment, Budgets, Community Development, Facilitation and Investor Relations.

She is equally passionate about life, people, cultures, education and building relationships across man made boundaries.

Work Experience/Companies worked for: Rio Tinto, ADvTECH Ltd

Siza Majola

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Profile Wahne Tubman is a User Experience Designer, User Researcher, Strategist and Web Developer. She has over 13 years experience designing software interfaces, conducting user research, managing design teams and spearheading the design phase of technology projects for companies including Goldman Sachs, Chase and HBO.

A global citizen with deep cultural insights, now living in Johannesburg, Wahne is passionate about IT users especially under privileged women and youth and helping them to leverage the power of the Internet to help entrepreneurs and companies grow their businesses online. For the past 3 years she has been designing mobile banking applications for African consumers and helping African entrepreneurs grow their business online.

Wahne studied interactive telecommunications at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and holds a BA in Marketing and Communications from Pepperdine University.

Wahne is the owner of Enwah Interactive SA www.enwahinteractivesa.com, a user experience design and digital strategy firm based in Johannesburg. Enwah designs, develops and deploys digital solutions across a range of channels, for small start-ups to fortune 500 companies. They work with clients in highly competitive markets to help them develop breakthrough ideas through an inclusive and transparent creative process. Enwah delivers products and services that impact the bottom line and your overall business strategy as your customer base grows and technology changes.

Work Experience/Companies worked for: Goldman Sachs, Chase, HBO, Enwah Interactive SA

Wahne Tubman

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STRENGTHS •  Africans living and working in Africa, passionate about Africa’s

development

•  Diversity in skills, gender, age, global educational experience & global multi sector experience

•  Knowledge of Africa, its strategies and implementation challenges

•  Knowledge of and access to local, regional & international Africa influencers

•  Experience of working with, for and as global leaders

•  Strategic thinkers, analysis and effective implementers

•  New Offering – light weight Start Up and new thinking

•  Solutions driven

OPPORTUNITIES •  All African diverse group offering

•  Work with various Multilateral institutions, international companies and African governments

•  Linking strategies with Investors, partners and opportunities

•  Work with African institutions eg African Union, AfDB, IDC, DBSA

•  Knowledge and access to influencers - African market support to External business wanting to invest in Africa

•  Providing up to date, sensitive, accurate & more detailed information on Africa

•  Multi skilled and experienced individuals, opportunity to excel

T9 Africa Consulting Group SWOT

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INTEGRITY •  The honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions

•  Accountability

•  Moral responsibility

VALUE ADDITION •  Thought leadership

•  Aggregation

•  Diversity in skills & working environments

•  World class qualifications

•  Professional Services

•  Attention to detail

COMMUNITY •  Skills Development

•  Maximising impact on Communities

CUSTOMER DRIVEN •  People Orientated

•  Quality Deliverables

•  Skills & Knowledge Sharing

Our Values

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IF YOU WANT TO GO QUICKLY, GO ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO GO FAR, GO TOGETHER.

- AFRICAN PROVERB