Team

Nabil Marc Abdul-Massih

CEO, Co-CIO

Nabil has over 25 years of experience managing commodity investments as a trader, collateral manager and portfolio manager. He joined INOKS in 2006 to seed and launch the Ancile Fund. He is CEO, principal of INOKS and a member of the Board.

Nicolas Malky

COO, Co-CIO

Nicolas has over 25 years of experience with commodities and trade. He has held senior positions at Cotecna, BNP and BCP, structuring and monitoring trade finance credit lines for exports all over the world. He supervises operations and structuring as COO of the company.

Ivan Agabekov

CFO, Co-CIO

Ivan has been with INOKS for more than 10 years. As CFO and member of the board, he oversees both the company’s investments and its finances. Since 2009, he has helped modernize and institutionalize the company. He holds a LLM, EMBA and several finance certificates.

Ludovic Brûlé

Head of Corporate Functions

Ludovic has over 20 years of accounting and finance experience within several international companies, starting his career at E&Y before progressing within industries ranging from services to asset management, family offices and more recently communications. He is a Swiss Certified Specialist for Finance and Accounting with HR expertise.

Ursula Nitschke

Head of Marketing and Investor Relations

Ursula has over 15 years of experience advising and distribution of alternative investments to investors globally. Before joining us, she built up the Hedge Fund Advisory solution at UBS Wealth Management. As Global Head of Marketing and Investor Relations she oversees the investor relations function at INOKS. Ursula holds a degree from Dublin City University and ESB Business School. She is a CFA charterholder and published a book on Alternative Investments

Samantha Lude

Investor Relations

Samantha has 10+ years of experience in investment funds. She began her career at Edmond de Rothschild as a Risk and Hedge Fund Analyst, before joining EDRAM's Sales Teams. She holds a Master in Business Administration and a Master in Statistics from University of Geneva. At INOKS, she looks after Investor Relations.

Giulia Schuck

Content and Public Relations Manager

Giulia has 10 years’ experience in content creation and marketing strategy across different industries, with past positions in private banking and large Swiss companies such as Nestlé Nespresso. She holds a BSc from EHL with marketing specialization, speaks 5 languages and co-created a Swiss TV Show about innovation and entrepreneurship.

Neneh Sahor

Investor Relations

Armand Ballou

West Africa Investees

A Certified Public Accountant since 2002, Armand began his career at PwC Dallas before returning to the Ivory Coast to serve as CFO of a state-owned cocoa and coffee trading company. Today, he represents INOKS across West Africa and is based in Abidjan.

Andreas Rüsch

Southern Africa Investees

Building on his significant banking and collateral management experience, since 2004 Andreas is an independent consultant for agriculture and trade. He has inspected over 900 warehouses across 25 developing countries (of which 22 African countries) covering 40+ commodities.

Peter Thomson

Ukraine & CIS Investees

Peter has 27 years’ experience in Ukrainian agriculture. He was COO of Ukrainian Agricultural Investments from 2006 to 2017, building and leading the operations of a 220,000ha arable farming holding of 60 farms and 5 elevators. Prior to UAI, Peter led AGCO Corporation’s Russian and Ukrainian operations. He leads INOKS’s business development in Ukraine and CIS countries.

Isabella Craft

ESG Analyst

Isabella’s professional background is in international trade and development, with a specific interest in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America. Her most recent position was at the World Bank in Moscow, where she focused on projects to improve agricultural exports and SME competitiveness. Isabella holds an undergraduate degree in Russian and Spanish from the University of Bristol (UK) and MSc in Impact Investment from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). In 2019, she was selected to participate in the Alfa Fellowship Program, a professional development scholarship for emerging leaders with expertise on Russia and CIS. She joins INOKS as an ESG Analyst.

Anne-Lyse Dindji

Origination Analyst

Anne-Lyse is an agronomist with a Master degree in management of technological innovation. She is experienced in leading sustainability projects for natural raw material chains in the cosmetics and food industries. She also has experience in the agricultural sector in Ivory Coast. She joins INOKS as an Origination and ESG Analyst.

Anselme Affoumou

Origination Analyst

Anselme has over 6 years of experience in cocoa and agricultural sector with a Master degree in Supply chain and procurement management and recently a certificate in Strategy. He started his career with Nestle Central & West Africa leading Procurement projects before joining a cocoa export trading company in Ivory Coast driving sustainable projects and managing relationship with cooperatives and traders. He joins INOKS as an Origination Analyst.

Motlatso Shee Marape

Sustainability Manager

Shee holds an Agricultural Economics undergraduate degree from the University of Pretoria and a MSc in Agriculture (Adoption of innovation) from the University of South Africa. Shee began her career as an Agricultural Economist before moving into the Agricultural Consulting space where she worked closely with smallholder and commercial farmers of South Africa.

Sushant Gagad

Head Financial Analyst

Sushant is a Chartered Accountant and a commerce graduate. He has been working in the agri-commodity industry for over 12 years, heading trade finance operations focusing on the Grains & Pulses segment after his first stint at EY in Assurance & Advisory services. Within INOKS Capital, he leads the financial and operational due diligence function from our office in India.

Ashwani Maheshwari

Senior Financial Analyst

Ashwani is a Chartered Accountant, B.Com. and CFA Level 3 candidate having experience in statutory audits, internal audits as well as corporate finance functions in India and UAE. Currently, he works with the Investment Team on financial and operational due diligence of investees.

Raghavendra Edurukala

Junior Financial Analyst

Raghavendra completed his B.Com. and Diploma in Finance & Marketing. He started his career two years ago by working in a start-up as an Associate Analyst, prior to joining INOKS Capital.

Harinath Lingumgunta

Senior Financial Analyst

Harinath holds a Master of Professional Accounting from MIT, Australia, and completed his M.Com. in India. He has over 12 years of experience across finance and accounts, working with companies like the Bank of America or Deloitte. He joined INOKS Capital as part of the Investee Relations Team.

Rinata de Ravel d'Escaplon

Deputy Operations Manager

Rinata has 15 years of experience in Raw material trading. She had been involved in every stage of the trading operations from contract drafting till customers claims resolution. Throughout her career she has lead teams and built relationships with the customers and different service providers worldwide. She now joins INOKS as Deputy Operations Manager.

Nathalie Coste

Senior Reporting Manager

Nathalie is a finance and accounting specialist with over 15 years of experience in a global commodity trading environment. Throughout her career she has lead teams and built relationships with service providers on several strategic growth projects. Her focus at INOKS is to streamline reporting and bolster internal controls, in a relentless drive for greater transparency and reliability.

Nikolaos Spantopanagos

Security & Collateral Manager

Nikos has 6 years of experience in logistics & shipping related to commodity trading companies. He holds a BA of Agricultural and Food enterprises and through his career he managed the shipment coordination from different origins, freight negotiations & relationship with shipping lines, EU deliveries and intra-European movements. He now joins INOKS as Security & Collateral Manager.

David Cosandey

Chief Risk Officer

David has been working in market risk, credit risk and operational risk at different banks in Geneva and Zurich since 1997. Before joining INOKS, he was Chief Risk Officer at fund manager Procimmo SA in Lausanne. At INOKS, David heads the Risk Department since January 2019. He has completed a PhD in Theoretical Physics at University of Berne, Switzerland.

Deeksha Behl

Senior Risk Modelling Manager

Having previously worked with DMCC (UAE) and Noble Resources (CH), Deeksha has over 16 years of work experience in the Commodity sector, with particular focus on Commodity research and valuation, Global S&D analysis (Softs), as well as Financial and Risk modelling for emerging markets. At INOKS Capital she has been instrumental to build Financial Risk Modelling (IFRS-9 and M2M collateral valuation), Investment Portfolio Mapping and Financial Due Diligence. Deeksha holds a Master of International Business and is a CMA.

Alina Yasynenko

Compliance Manager

Alina has over 20 years of experience in Compliance and Trade Finance in banking and commodities trading in Geneva and Paris. Before joining us, she worked in a trading company and in BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA. She held positions as Account Officer in Commodities Trade Finance and Middle Office of Structured Debt, and since the last 8 years, as Compliance Officer in Corporate Investment Banking and Wealth Management. As Compliance Manager, she supervises all INOKS activities from Swiss prudential perspective and in accordance with local laws internationally. Alina holds a Master degree in International Trade and a Compliance Certificate.

Aurélie Chelle

Legal & Compliance Officer

Aurelie is a French qualified lawyer and a Solicitor of England and Wales. She spent 15 years in London working both in private practice specialized in arbitration and as in-house lawyer for several international companies in the construction industry. She then joined the law firm Python in Geneva as a Senior Associate, working for one of the largest container terminal operators part of the MSC Group and also for oil and gas companies. Aurelie joined Inoks Capital in April 2021 as Legal & Compliance Officer.

Irene Gaetani

Senior Legal Manager

Irene previously worked at BNP Paribas (CH) as a legal counsel for almost 10 years, advising inter alia on corporate investment banking (trade finance, structured debt, corporate banking). She also worked at Pictet Group as Senior Legal Counsel and Solaris Commodities as the Head of Legal & Compliance. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Business Law from Geneva University.

Alexandre Fenu

Senior IT & Business Solutions Manager

Alex has over 20 years of software development and business analysis expertise across several environments ranging from start-ups to corporate and financial sectors. As an IT specialist his drive is to create and deploy technologies whose quality and flexibility enable teams to thrive in their day-to-day activities.

Eléonore Stryszczuk

Accountant

Eléonore holds a master’s degree in Corporate Finance from ICN Business School in France and from the Financial University (CUNEF) in Madrid. She started her career 2 years ago by working in startup specialized in Art as an Administrative and Financial assistant based in Switzerland and in the United-Kingdom. She is now a member of INOKS as Junior Account.

Alice Walgenwitz

Office Manager & Executives P.A.

Alice has 11 years of experience in executive secretarial and administrative support at all managements levels. She holds a Swiss law certificate and previously worked in the hospitality and private aviation industry before joining petroleum trading environment and then INOKS Capital. Very resourceful, she particularly thrives in improving office running as a Personal Assistant and Office manager.

Mickaël Peeren

IT & Business Solutions Chief Architect

Mickaël holds a MIAGE master’s degree, based on Computer Science and Financial lesson, from the Paris Dauphine University. He worked 2 years for the French investment bank Natixis, in the Securities Lending division.

Salim Mouttaki

IT Apprentice

Luca Rosales

Junior Software Developer

Luca graduated from a Computer Science Engineering school (Ensimag) and has a double degree in Quantitative Finance and Computer Science. His previous experience was a 6-month internship as Software Engineer at Société Générale. He joins INOKS as Junior Software Developer.

Hassane Baro

Junior Software Developer

Hani Othman Baothman

Chairman

Hani is CEO of Al Murjan International Holding an investment company incorporated in Jersey. He is a British Chevening Scholarship holder for his MBA at the Imperial College London and has since acquired extensive experience within prominent multinational institutions across the UAE.

Olivier Nicod

Vice Chairman

A partner at Walder Wyss in Lausanne, Olivier specializes in banking and securities law, banking relations, business and corporate law, merger and acquisitions, bankruptcy and collection, and contract law. He is a member of the Vaud and New York bars.

Philippe Perles

Member

Philippe has more than 30 years of experience in Private Banking, Business Consulting, Asset Management and Commodity Trading industries. He is co-founder and current CEO (Geneva & London) of NOVEO Conseil a specialized consultancy active in the field of international finance. Philippe acts as independent board member for several financial institutions including Edmond de Rothschild Holding SA.

Muhammed Currim Oozeer

Member

Currim has been active with Islamic Finance for over 15 years and today is CEO of Sidra Capital. He holds a PhD and Master's Degree in International Securities, Investment & Banking from the University of Reading and is a CFA charterholder.

Nabil Marc Abdul-Massih

Member

Nabil has over 25 years of experience managing commodity investments as a trader, collateral manager and portfolio manager. He joined INOKS in 2006 to seed and launch the Ancile Fund. He is CEO, principal of INOKS and a member of the Board.

Ivan Agabekov

Member

Ivan has been with INOKS for more than 10 years. As CFO and member of the board, he oversees both the company’s investments and its finances. Since 2009, he has helped modernize and institutionalize the company. He holds a LLM, EMBA and several finance certificates.