Guy De Selliers
Co-Founder and President,
HCF International Advisors
London,
United Kingdom
Guy is the Co-Founder and President of HCF International Advisors, a leading corporate finance boutique focused on the global metals and mining sector. He has held senior executive positions in both multilateral organisations and private sector firms. Starting as a project officer in the mining division of the World Bank from 1977 to 1983, followed by senior Vice-president at Lehman Brothers focusing on the mining sector. In 1990, he became the first member of the team creating the European Bank for Reconstruction and Developing and member of its executive Committee. Later, he held senior positions with Fleming Bank, Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan before he created HCF International Advisers. In addition, Guy took on several non-executive roles including Solvay SA, Norilsk Nickel, AGEAS (vice-chairman, AG Insurance (Chairman), Ivanhoe mines and others. He currently devotes the majority of his time in HCF business.
Over his 45-year career, Guy has been involved in innumerable transactions across a multitude of sectors spanning all continents, including as both an advisor and principle within, equity, debt, M&A and political risk insurance. Some of the most notable activities relating to the natural resource sector include his involvement with SNIM in Mauritania over the last 40 years, Board Member and Adviser to Ivanhoe Mines over the previous 15 years and acting as a co/chairman on behalf of the EC of a committee created to facilitate the financing of large-scale Oil & Gas projects in Russia. As well as acting as an advisor to Rio-Tinto on the Simandou project, Guy has been the Executive Chairman of the Nimba project in Guinea, he was a Miga agent and advisor to MIGA clients, a strategic and financing adviser for the development of the Anaklia Port in Georgia.
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