Team

Find out more about the people involved with Musoni.

	Lukas Wellen, Chief Executive Officer Lukas Wellen has 10 years of experience in microfinance in both advisory and management roles, with extensive field experience in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. Lukas Wellen studied Macro Economics and financial systems in developing markets in Amsterdam and in South Africa. Lukas worked as a staff member of the risk department of Rabobank and worked for the ProCreditBank group in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo and Ukraine. After the ProCreditBank period Lukas had several assignments as a consultant in Holland, Croatia and Niger, and in 2003 Lukas moved to Central Vietnam, where he was responsible for three microfinance programmes. Lukas was latest employed by Triple Jump Advisory Services in the Netherlands being responsible for delivering technical assistance to MFIs in the Caucasus and in East Africa. Lukas also served on MFI-boards in Cambodia and Georgia. Starting at the end of 2007, Lukas has worked on mobile banking in East Africa.
	Andrew Taylor, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Taylor is a UK Chartered Accountant who started his career at KPMG in London and Hong Kong and who has spent the last 25 years working for SME’s. Andrew also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. Andrew has invested in and worked in a number of young growing businesses. He has broad experience of international company formation and establishing global multi-currency accounting and reporting systems. He also has experience of raising funds and managing investor relations. Andrew is currently a trustee of a number of charities and is a non-executive Director of an UK based SME.
	Bart van Eyk, Chief Operations Officer Bart van Eyk has 15 years of banking experience in international business development and Private Banking. He has been responsible for product and project management as well as sales & acquisition. Bart studied at the Royal Military Academy in Breda followed by his masters in Business Administration at the University of Nijmegen. After graduation Bart followed a corporate traineeship at ABN AMRO bank and held several positions within Private Banking and international business development environments. Bart’s last position with ABN AMRO was Senior Private Banker/Deputy Manager, successfully building a new Private Banking business in Spain. After that Bart had several microfinance assignments in Central and South America, including managing an MFI in Peru. After living abroad for six years he moved back to Holland end 2008, where he developed his own microfinance consultancy business. Bart is also involved with the Dutch Ministry of Defence, advising businesses on key economic area rebuilding in conflict areas.
	Oskar Himmelreich, Technical Officer Oskar Himmelreich has eight years of experience in internet application development, consultancy and lead-development roles. Oskar studied Organizational Psychology in Amsterdam. He did an internship in Ghana, researching the effectiveness of a microfinance programme and wrote a thesis about the Digital Divide. In his professional career Oskar worked for new media agencies in Holland. He developed content management systems for companies such as Versatel and Sabena. He also did application development for the Sony Ericsson Consumer Website and built the Sony Ericsson Intranet using Microsoft Content Management Server. He is now working as a freelance application developer and consultant with a main focus on the Microsoft .NET Platform and the C# language. As a freelance developer he worked for small new brands like Zomoto and big existing brands like Sony Ericsson. He has worked as a developer, lead-developer and consultant on several projects using technologies including database development, XML, web-services, web applications, mobile web applications, CRM-integration and synchronization.
	Ruud van der Horst, IT executive coach Ruud van der Horst has over 20 years of experience in banking in varying roles. He has done EDP-auditing and EVP-auditing with ABN and he has been managing director responsible for back-office support, IT and international infrastructure with the investment bank of ABN AMRO. From 2001 Ruud has been involved in a number of projects. Including turnaround management of a big IT project in a semi-governmental organization, negotiating sourcing contracts for a big utility and consultancy for an insurer with a derailed BPO contract. Mr. van der Horst has also been involved in various smaller consultancy projects, for instance for a small bank in Rwanda, for an MFI in Cameroon and coaching of an IT company with banking products in Romania.
	Cameron Goldie-Scot, African Implementation Team Manager Working as an independent consultant for Triple Jump Advisory Services from July 2008, Cameron was responsible for facilitating the introducing of mobile payment services to microfinance clients in Kenya and Tanzania. He completed two successful projects enabling clients at two MFIs to repay their loans using their phones. During this period, based permanently in East Africa, Cameron gained first-hand experience of the challenges faced when implementing mobile banking services, as well as the key factors necessary for success. Since January 2009 Cameron has also been a member of the International Advisory Board of Mobile Finance Eurasia, an Eastern European management consultancy focusing on mobile payment services. Before working in microfinance, Cameron graduated with an MA from St Andrews University where he studied Middle Eastern Studies and Modern History.