CIEL Group / CIEL Finance

Guillaume P. A. Dalais is Group Chief Financial Officer at CIEL Group, with 15 years of experience in executive finance roles spanning multiple locations across four continents. He previously served 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 with a combined headcount of approximately 80. During his tenure, the company completed more than 40 transactions with a total combined enterprise value exceeding 6 billion EUR.

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.

Lakshman Bheenick works in family office and wealth management at SAGIS AM, focusing on financial investments and patrimonial assessments. SAGIS AM is an independent multi-family office founded in 2005 that advises families, foundations, and associations on asset and wealth management, and has held an AMF portfolio management company license since 2013.

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 a Fund Accounting Manager at CPE Capital. A chartered accountant with over 10 years of post-qualified experience in the financial services industry across offshore and onshore settings, he has managed teams of up to 12 people responsible for net asset value calculations and annual financial statements. His work has included developing internal control systems and overseeing data migration between accounting systems.