CIEL Group / CIEL Finance

Issam Sarkis serves as Group Chief Financial Officer at CIEL Group and has held executive roles for approximately 15 years, with experience across seven locations on four continents. He previously worked as a senior executive at Aspen Pharmacare, a South African listed pharmaceutical company, where he led the Finance, IT, HR, and Legal departments in Mauritius, overseeing around 80 staff. During his tenure, the company completed more than 40 transactions with a combined enterprise value exceeding 6 billion EUR.

Mark van Beuningen is Group Strategy & Investment Executive at CIEL Group and previously served as CEO of Cim Financial Services Ltd., a Mauritius-based non-banking financial institution listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius that operates across finance and investment clusters. His work has included developing the group's Africa strategy and overseeing its market entry in Kenya, where Cim operates the consumer finance business Aspira. Earlier in his career he worked in management consulting at the Boston Consulting Group in Johannesburg and Sydney, in structured finance at Macquarie Bank, and in financial services assurance at KPMG in Cape Town.

Yogesh Kissoondary is Group Head of Corporate Finance (M&A) at CIEL Group, with more than 20 years of international experience in financial reporting, corporate development, and deal-making. He holds an Executive MBA from HEC Paris, is a qualified accountant, has completed Level II of the CFA program, and has finished the IBM Data Science course on Coursera. His experience includes board and audit committee roles, and his interests include emerging markets, development finance, and data science.

A CPE Capital team member for over twelve years, leading the firm's data analytics and research function supporting investment assessment and portfolio management. Previously at BIS Shrapnel and the University of Sydney.