London Team
Who We Are / The New Forests Company
Julian Ozanne - Managing Director
Julian has widespread knowledge of Africa - its countries, politics, influential people and the business environment. In 1986 he graduated with an Economics Degree from the London School of Economics (LSE). Between 1987 and 1997 he worked for the Financial Times and was foreign correspondent serving as Middle East Correspondent and Africa Bureau Chief. Between 1994 and 1999 he advised a number of US and European investment banks on business and political risk in Africa and worked for the World Economic Forum. Born in Kenya, raised in Southern Africa, semi-fluent in Kiswahili and Sesotho, he has long and deep political and personal links with Africa.
Ofelia Burton -
Ofelia is a senior finance professional with over 15 year's international experience of strategic planning, business development and financial reporting structures. She has been the CFO of Sultan Energy Ltd, a South East Asian energy/mining concern in the process of AIM listing and spent the majority of her professional career prior to this with the Timex Corporation. Ofelia is a Certified Public Accountant and is an Accredited Associate of Institute for Independent Business International.
Daksh Sharma - Group Financial Controller
Daksh is a senior finance professional with over 23 years of experience including 17 years of international experience of financial and corporate reporting budgeting, internal control, taxation ,audit and company secretarial matters. He worked with Reliance Industries Ltd in India as a Finance Executive in their petrochemical division before moving to Tanzania. There he worked for Pepsi (SA) as a Financial Controller before moving to UK. In the UK, he has worked as a Group Financial Controller with two SME Company before he joined NFC. Daksh is a science graduate and a qualified Chartered Accountant and Management Accountant with a degree in law.