Jamil Gwamna, Sardaunan Gombe, is the managing director and co-founder of Jamen Consultancy. He has extensive commercial and managerial experience at the executive and board levels in the water industry, heavy equipment distribution and manufacturing businesses. After graduating from Ahmadu Bello University, Mr Gwamna started work with the Nigerian Bank of Commerce and Industry in Abeokuta. He switched from finance to industry, when he joined Kaduna Aluminium Ltd and later Kaduna Machine Works as Group Chief Accountant. In preparation for an executive position, Mr Gwamna was initially promoted to Marketing Manager before being appointed managing director of Kaduna Machine Works. In 1990 he left to manage his own business - Amstrade Ventures Limited - a company which imports and sells heavy-duty earth moving equipment. In 2000, he started working in the utility sector when he accepted the position of the first Executive Chairman of Gombe State Water Corporation. During his tenure, which lasted until 2003, the Corporation started the Gombe Water Project to extract and distribute water from the Dadin Kowa Dam. In 2004, Sardaunan Gombe undertook a major research project, which involved the economic analysis and evaluation of the privatisation options used in UK utilities with a case study of British Rail. He has expertise in the economic analysis and policy options associated with Public Private Partnerships (PPP), Public Finance Initiatives (PFI) and other approaches to privatising or commercialising state-owned enterprises.

Shehu Mairiga is a Director of Jamen Consultancy Limited based at the firm’s Nigerian Office in Kaduna. He graduated from Ahmadu Bello University with a degree in Accountancy in 1986. He also earned an MBA from the same University in 1996.
Mr. Mairiga has a wide range of managerial and business experience acquired over a period of almost twenty years. Specifically Mr. Mairiga has worked in the public sector as an Internal Auditor in the Bauchi State Government. His private sector experience includes being the Finance and Accounts Manager at Nortex (Nigeria) Ltd where he was also the Marketing Manager. He moved to Finetex Limited as the General Manager for Accounts and Finance, where his expertise and capability led to his appointment as the Managing Director of Finetex Limited in 1997. The scope of the business experience of Mr. Mairiga covers manufacturing, distribution and retail in the textile industry. As a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management, Mr. Mairiga has extensive network of contacts in the consulting industry and serves on the board of six companies.

Bill Megginson is Professor and Rainbolt Chair in Finance at the University of Oklahoma’s Michael F. Price College of Business. He is also a voting member of the Italian Ministry of Economics and Finance’s Global Advisory Committee on Privatisation and Scientific Advisor for the Privatisation Barometer. Professor Megginson's research interest has focused in recent years on the privatisation of state-owned enterprises, especially those privatizations executed through public share offerings. He has published refereed articles in several top academic journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Foreign Policy. His co-authored study documenting significant performance improvements in recently privatised companies received one of two Smith Breeden Distinguished Paper Awards for outstanding research published in the Journal of Finance during 1994. He is author or co-author of seven books including The Financial Economics of Privatization, Oxford University Press, 2005. He has also served as a privatisation consultant for New York Stock Exchange, the OECD, the IMF, the World Federation of Exchanges and the World Bank.

Dr. Megginson has a BS degree in chemistry from Mississippi College, an MBA from Louisiana State University, and a Ph.D. in finance from Florida State University. Professor Megginson has travelled extensively outside the United States, both personally and professionally. He has visited 57 countries during his lifetime, and has lived in Spain, Pakistan, and Switzerland, in addition to the United States. Prior to entering academia in 1986, he worked for five years as a petroleum chemist at the world's largest styrene monomer plant and at the largest independent petroleum refinery in the United States.

Kojo Menyah is a co-founder and director of Jamen Consultancy with educational background in Accounting, Management and Financial Economics. He has undertaken a major assignment in the evaluation of public policy for the United States Agency for International Development and a Marketing Board in Africa. He has expertise in the economics of privatisation, methods of privatisation, the pricing of new issues for flotation on stock markets, value for money analysis and competition and regulatory policies. As an analyst, he has extensive knowledge in the design of corporate capital structures, valuation of businesses, impact of fiscal policies on corporate actions and stock markets. The breadth of Dr Menyah’s expertise is evidenced in his published research in international journals on UK privatisation, African stock markets, taxation and the pricing of UK equities, the market microstructure of the London Stock Exchange, international cash management and the costs of going public, among others. He has also organised training courses in operational, currency and interest rate risk management, corporate finance and governance and capital markets in the United Kingdom. He offers his expertise in a wide range of areas to a UK based charity in his capacity as a director of their operating company. He has held leading positions in universities in Ghana, Canada and the UK. Dr Menyah who is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon and the University of Strathclyde is currently on the faculty of London Metropolitan University as a Reader in Finance.

Krishna Paudyal has a background in finance and international and monetary economics. He was actively involved in the foreign exchange policy of Nepal through his work in the foreign exchange and research departments of the Central Bank of Nepal. After completing another MSc and a PhD at the University of Strathclyde in 1990, Dr Paudyal was appointed Chief of the International Trade and Payments Division (Research Department) of the Central Bank of Nepal. In 1993, Krishna made a transition to academia at Glasgow Caledonian University. The depth and breadth of his research publications and practical expertise is evidenced in his meteoric rise to a full professorship in 1996.

Dr Paudyal’s main areas of practical and research expertise include market microstructure, corporate financial decisions, privatisation and new security issues. He has extensive expertise in applied econometrics and other statistical data analysis. He has published over 30 research papers in highly rated international journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Financial Research and Journal of Business Finance and Accounting. His contributions to the Finance profession have been recognised internationally. In 1996 he received the Global Expectations Research Competition award (third place with his co-authors) for one of his papers. A recent published research ranks him 17th finance academic in Europe and 8th in the UK. His profile is recorded in Who’s Who in the World (2003). Dr Paudyal is currently a Professor of Finance at the University of Durham Business School where he is the Director of the Centre for Empirical Research in Finance as well as the Director of the PhD programme. He has extensive experience in training managers.