Profile

Tim Runge

Tim was a co-founder of an export market development company based in Toronto during the 1980's. He then joined capital equipment manufacturer Babcock and Wilcox International where he became Manager of Countertrade before leaving to join Newcourt Capital in the late 1990's as a Director within its new Offset & Structured Trade Finance unit.

Even before joining Newcourt Tim had participated in projects and proposal work valued at over $1 billion involving commodity-based financing techniques, offset and countertrade (now generally called structured trade finance).

A Director of C& I Projects Inc. he is based near Toronto. His strength lies in understanding the bidding requirements of developers or manufacturers and patterning offset and finance proposals in ways as to meet those requirements.

Tim is a director of MTM Capital Inc., an independent specialized international project and economic development company established, among other reasons, to use countertrade and offset techniques for project financing in especially difficult markets. Tim is a graduate of Queen's University at Kingston, Canada.

Malcolm Taylor

Malcolm, a recognised expert in the offset field, is the President of the Australian Countertrade Association, a Councillor of the Asia Pacific Countertrade Association and a regular speaker at industry conferences around the world. He is particularly strong in finding and packaging offset investment projects, structuring the deals and using his legal skills in joint ventures and other cross-border vehicles to maximize offset credits.

Malcolm is based in Melbourne Australia and brings to STRATACT BDM . clients opportunities in the South East Asian region.

Malcolm has been a commercial lawyer since 1976 and since the mid 1980's has specialised in the fields of offset and countertrade.

He is the CEO of C& I Projects Pty. Ltd with offices in Australia and Canada. C & I Projects provides consultancy services and structuring advice to parties which do not have in-house expertise in offset and structured trade finance.

Malcolm is also a Director of C & I Projects' associate company, MTM Capital Inc., an independent specialized international project and economic development company.

A former Director of the Offset & Structured Trade Finance Unit of Newcourt Capital based in Melbourne, Malcolm is also the senior partner of the Melbourne based law firm White Cleland, established in 1954.

Malcolm is a graduate of the University of Melbourne.