African Discovery Group Inc (AFDG)

[Warchest]

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

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