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 25 years of accounting / finance and HR 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 diploma.

Samantha Lude

Senior Investor Relations Manager

Samantha has over 15 years’ experience in Investment Funds, half of it in direct contact with investors. Before joining INOKS in 2019, she worked at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management for 10 years, first as a Hedge Fund Analyst then to join the Sales team. She holds a Master in BA and a Master in Statistics from the University of Geneva.

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

Senior 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.

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.

Sergio Sanchez Toledo

Senior Impact Analyst

Sergio holds a bachelor’s in business management and administration and a Diploma in Management Accounting (CIMA).
He was previously working at Big Issue Invest as an Investment Director for Impact Investing where he was managing a portfolio of USD 10M.

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 9 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.

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 Corporate Finance in Swiss financial industry. Before joining us, she worked in a trading company (soft commodities) in Paris/Geneva and in BNP Paribas (Switzerland) where she held positions as Account Officer in Trade Finance (Oil and Metals) and Middle Office (Agency Desk) in Structured Debt, before specializing in Compliance (Corporate Investment Banking and Wealth Management clients) for the last 8 years. Alina has been Compliance Manager with INOKS for 2 years and she holds a Master’s degree in International Trade (France) and the CAS Compliance in Financial Services (Switzerland).

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.

Ines Hemissi

Junior Accountant

Eric Castel

Senior Software Developer

Luca Rosales

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.

Salim Mouttaki

IT Apprentice

Salim is an apprentice developer with 2 years’ experience in computer development at INOKS. He is passionate about computer science; always eager to learn and improve his programming skills. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring the latest technologies and is active in the developer community. Salim is determined to succeed in his field and contribute to the company and the community in a positive way.

Oleksandr Reznichenko

Commercial apprentice

Mattis Lefranc-Adam

IT apprentice

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.