The Growth Team
Building Tomorrow’s Business Leaders Today
Founder & Chairman Emeritus
Martin Fairbairn
Martin Fairbairn is a retired lawyer and the founder of a leading Hong Kong law firm. He retired from that practice in 1990 after spearheading the growth of his firm from three persons to the eleventh largest firm of solicitors in Hong Kong with a total staff of 160. He is a British national and BA graduate in Middle Eastern studies from Oxford University who has been resident in Hong Kong for more than 40 years.
Martin is now an independent consultant to a number of financial organisations assisting with their strategic planning and back office systems and management.
Director
Gideon Amihood
Gideon Amihood’s banking career started in 1973 with Bank Leumi in Isrel, progressing through Citibank, Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Lyonnais and First International Bank of Israel in London, Brazil, Paris, Australia and Israel, culminating in a year with BNP in Israel, managing trade finance, project finance, private banking and BNP network coordination, followed by six years, until his retirement, as Head of Treasury for BNP Paribas in Tel Aviv, with primary responsibility for front and back office operating systems and managing dealers’ positions.
M. Amihood is presently CEO of Vantu Bank Ltd. a boutique Vanuatu-based internet bank providing specialist SWIFT services to private clients.
CEO Non-Profit Division
William (Bill) Dalzell
William Dalzell is a Certified General Accountant with a B.Sc. in Forestry (British Columbia) who has leveraged his dual qualifications to gain broad and in-depth experience in the alternative investments sector of the global financial markets, as well as management, human resources, production and accounting in the education, wood products and steel industries.
Bill has done extensive research and technical analysis both in the foreign currency and derivatives markets and spoken at a number of international seminars on trading and derivatives. His passion is trading the forex market and teaching others the skills and art of trading. He has been a successful personal forex trader for close to 20 years and mentored a number of students, several of whom have gone on to become successful full-time traders.
Bill is currently a principal of “Forget the Market”, a project that funds US medical receivables, bringing medical help and comfort to Americans needing urgent medical attention who are unable to wait for help from their insurance companies.
Director & Chief Technology Officer
Guy Sagy
Guy Sagy is an Information Systems Analyst and an expert ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) consultant with specialist experience in ERP platforms.
He is an experienced developer of software and web-based applications as well as forex trading expert advisors (robots).
He has a BA International Business Administration, University of Humberside, England; Dip. Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; Dip. Managing Start-up Companies by MATI High-Tech, Israel; Dip. Computer Technician, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel; Dip. SAP ERP and Oracle Applications, John Bryce, Matrix, Israel.
Guy was an ERP Consultant across a range of leading companies, businesses and industries in Israel for 7 years.
He is a co-developer of the TeamsOffice web application, an online Knowledge Management system for companies and entrepreneurs. He is presently Chief Technology Officer for all companies in the Vanuatu- based EDC Group and Hong Kong-based Vanuatu Registry Services Ltd, Deputy Commissioner of the Vanuatu Financial Services Commission.
Director
Mitchell Herber
Mitchell Herber, who lives just outside London, has 30 years of cross- disciplinary experience in the audio-visual, education and management fields. He organized and founded a centralized print and media unit, introducing cutting-edge desktop publishing systems for several Inner London colleges.
Since 1990 Mr. Herber has founded and directed three graphics design and print enterprises with clientele including such names as Jordan Grand Prix F1 Team, FA Premier league, Cape Boards plc, Oki Europe, Xerox and many others. He is presently director and senior shareholder of Catalyst Design, a graphics design house in London and CEO of IOCS International (International Organization for Community Sharing).
