Who we are

Lewis B Kaden was vice chairman of Citigroup from 2005 until 30 April, 2013. He was previously a partner in the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, and served as counsel to the governor of New Jersey, as a professor of law at Columbia University and as director of Columbia University’s Center for Law and Economic Studies.

He has served as a director of Bethlehem Steel Corp for 10 years and is chairman of the board of directors of the Markle Foundation. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a moderator of the Business-Labor Dialogue.

Mr Kaden is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

He is the lead independent director on the ArcelorMittal board of directors.

Tye Burt was appointed president and chief executive officer of Kinross Gold Corporation, a mining company listed in New York and Toronto in March 2005. He held this position until August 2012.

Mr Burt has a wealth of experience in the global mining industry, specialising in corporate finance, business strategy and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Kinross, he held the position of vice chairman and executive director of corporate development at Barrick Gold Corporation. Other previous positions include: president, Cartesian Capital Group from 2000 to 2002; chairman, Deutsche Bank Canada and Deutsche Bank Securities Canada; global managing Director, global metals and mining for Deutsche Bank AG from 1997 to 2000 and managing director and co-head of the global mining group at BMO Nesbitt Burns from 1995 to 1997. He held various other positions at BMO Nesbitt Burns from 1986 to 1995.

Mr Burt is a board member of Dacha Strategic Metals Inc. and the Life Sciences Research Campaign Chair for the University of Guelph’s Better Planet project. He is also a member of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Charter for Business’ board of governors.

Mr Burt is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Guelph.

Jeannot Krecké was appointed Luxembourg’s Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade and Minister of Sport in 2004. After the elections of 2009, he retained the portfolio of Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade.

From July 2004 to February 2012, he represented the Luxembourg government at the Council of Ministers of the European Union in the internal market and industry sections of its competitiveness configuration, on the Economic and Financial Affairs Council and in the energy section of its transport, telecommunications and energy configuration. He was a member of the Eurogroup from 2004 to 2009.

Mr. Krecké is currently the chief executive officer of Key International Strategy Services and is on the board of JSFC Sistema and CalzedoniaFinanziara S.A.

He attended the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he graduated in physical and sports education. He later retrained in economics, accounting and taxation.

Bruno Lafont is chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of construction materials company Lafarge. He joined Lafarge in 1983 and became its chairman and CEO in 2007.

Mr Lafont is co-chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) Cement Sustainability Initiative. He also co-chairs the Energy Efficiency in Buildings initiative, launched with United Technologies under the aegis of the WBCSD. Mr Lafont is on the board of directors of French utilities company EDF and is a special adviser to the mayor of Chongqing, China.

Mr Lafont is a graduate of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales and the École Nationale d’Administration in France.

HRH Prince Guillaume de Luxembourg has worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and the Commission of European Communities in Brussels.

Prince Guillaume headed a governmental development agency, Lux-Development, for 12 years; after that, he was appointed honorary president of the board of directors of Lux-Development. 

He studied at the University of Oxford, UK, and is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington DC.

Vanisha Mittal Bhatia was appointed as a member of the LNM Holdings Board of Directors in June 2004. Ms. Vanisha Mittal Bhatia was appointed to Mittal Steel’s Board of Directors in December 2004. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the European Business School and has worked at Mittal Shipping Ltd, Mittal Steel Hamburg GmbH, an Internet-based venture capital fund, within the procurement department of Mittal Steel, in charge of a cost-cutting project, and is currently Head of Strategy for Aperam. She is the daughter of Mr. Lakshmi N. Mittal.

Suzanne Nimocks was a director at global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company from 1999 to 2010, and worked as a leader in the firm’s global petroleum, electric power & natural gas, organisation and risk management practices. She chaired the environmental committee of the Greater Houston Partnership, the primary advocate of Houston’s business community, until the end of 2010. Mrs Nimocks is currently a board member for Encana Corporation, Rowan Companies Inc, and Owens Corning, all listed companies, and Valerus, a private company.

She has a degree in economics from Tufts University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Wilbur L Ross Jr is the chairman and chief executive officer of WL Ross & Co. LLC, a merchant banking firm, a position that he has held since April 2000. WL Ross & Co is part of Invesco Private Capital, a listed company, of which Mr Ross is chairman. As such, Mr. Ross is also the chairman and chief executive officer of several unlisted Invesco portfolio companies. Mr. Ross is the chairman of Ohizumi Manufacturing Company in Japan, International Textile Group and Diamond S Shipping, all of which are unlisted companies, and of the Japan Society and the Economics Studies Council of the Brookings Institution, which are non-profit entities.

Wilbur L Ross is a director of International Automotive Components and Compagnie Européenne de Wagons SARL (Luxembourg), both non-listed companies, and also a director of the Yale School of Management and the Harvard Business School Dean’s Advisory Board.  He sits on the boards of Air Lease Corp., Assured Guaranty, BankUnited, EXCO Resources and Greenbrier, all NYSE-listed, and of PLASCAR, which is listed in Brazil.

Antoine Spillmann is an asset manager and executive partner at the firm Bruellan Wealth Management; an independent asset management company based in Geneva, Switzerland. Antoine is also a non-independent board member of Bondpartners SA, Lechanche SA and Sibelco Switzerland AG. Prior to this, he worked for leading investment banks in London from 1986 to 2000.

Antoine studied in Switzerland and London, UK, receiving diplomas in investment management and corporate finance from the London Business School.