Barry Kulick

Tel Aviv

Mobile: 0525845124

barrykulick@gmail.com

 Professional Objectives:

As permanent staff or on a consultancy basis to enhance a client’s overall strategic vision and to mobilize a client’s project resource requirements utilizing expertise, skills and experience in formulating Public/Private/Donor/United Nations partnerships.  

Key Skills and Achievements:

• Mobilized over USD450million for sovereign states, state corporations, private sector entities and United Nations organizations.
• Proven capacity to achieve high-level complex transaction results in a multi-cultural and international environment.
• Ability to optimize impact of client’s strategic plan.
• Liaised with officials of the U.S. Government on security matters.
• Remodeled United Nations agency work plans.
• Addressed VAT and Withholding Tax implications.
• Chairman and Founding Trustee of “Americans for Kenyans Trust”, established in 1998 to assist Kenyans in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi.

Personal Data:

• American citizen, born in New York City.
• Made Aliyah from Kenya to Israel in September, 2009. Lived in Kenya for 15 years.

 Career History:

Public Sector:      1998 – 2003, 2008 – 2009

Sovereign States and State Corporations – Financial Services Consultant

• Republic of Kenya and Kenyan State Corporations

o    Arranged USD125milion clean risk sovereign credit facilities.

• Appointed advisor on Government external borrowing; advised on external debt management/sovereign credit facilities/export credit agency guarantees.
• Initiated Public/Private/Donor/United Nations partnerships.
• Secured a major international bank to fully underwrite a USD250millon clean risk international U.S. dollar capital markets instrument
• Negotiated U.S. Government/Kenya Government Joint Co-operation Agreement on Biotechnology Development funded by U.S. Government.

• Republic of Zambia and Zambian State Corporations   

• Arranged USD65million clean risk sovereign credit facilities.

• Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg – Ministry of Foreign Affairs  

• Designed, implemented and marketed successful direct foreign investment incentive scheme through Public/Private Partnerships.

 Private Sector:   2006 – 2009 – Financial Services Consultant

• Operations Director – Keroche Industries Limited – Kenya

Assisted client to reorganize operational, managerial and procurement procedures in line with international best practice.

• Rockshield Quality Food Processors Limited – €15million Abattoir – Tanzania  

Formulated multi-layered financial strategy grounded in Public/Private/United Nations Partnerships to fund €15million abattoir.

·         Amwal Q.S.C.P. – Qatar  Designed Public/Private/Donor infrastructure investment strategies in Sub Saharan Africa for leading asset management firm and investment bank.

• Josepdam Sugar Company Limited – Nigeria    

Assessed and acted on financial restructuring of winning bidder for state-owned Nigerian sugar company. 

 ·         International and Domestic Money Transfer Services Project – Postal Corporation of Kenya/Afripayments LLC  Liaised with officials of the U.S. Government and Kenya Government on anti-money laundering security matters; evaluated financial projections; addressed VAT and withholding tax implications; and, advised on public policy and regulatory issues.  

United Nations:    2003 – 2006

  United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) – Public ResourcesAllocation Advisor    

·      Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) – Financial Services Consultant    

·      United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) – Special Advisor  

• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) – Special Advisor 

Prepared Strategic Policy Papers; remodeled programme and project work plans; facilitated Public/Private/Donor/United Nations partnerships; formulated innovative global financial strategies; mobilized donor cost-sharing resources.

Languages:

English – native speaker.

French – conversational.

Hebrew – basic but excited to learn under Ulpan.

Personal Profile;

Married with 3 children.

Born 21 January 1942.

B.A. Classics, New York University, 1964.