who we are

Nicholas Connell

Nicholas serves as the CEO of the Rubus Group, having started in corporate intelligence consultancy in 2005.
 
He holds an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand (RSA, an MBA from Imperial College (London), and qualified as a Financial Advisor and Investment Manager with membership of both CISI and the CII.
 
Although now non-practicing, he is dual qualified in both South Africa and the UK, practicing as a lawyer until 2005, latterly with the UK arm of Momentum Group. As a non-practicing solicitor, he continues as Legal Counsel for FES Financial Engineering Services Ltd (actuarial consultancy) and NCDFGroup Holding Ltd (holdco and impact investor).

GISELA RUTH SUCHY

Gisela is an independent Avocat and a member of the Versailles Bar (France). She studied Political Science at Sciences Po Lyon – Institut d’Etudes Politiques from 1995 to 1997 before obtaining a Masters in Business Law and Tax with the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Gisela enrolled as an avocat with the Conseil National Des Barreaux (CNB) in France on 2 October 2006 and is a member of the Versailles Bar (Registration number: 084526). Her career started with with Arthur Andersen, she taught Law at the University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne and practiced as a Tax Consultant with TAJ.

She established her legal practice in Versailles in October 2010, concentrating on tax, public regulations, estates, civil and criminal law.

ABIGAIL RONALD-LOUW

Abigail is a South African Attorney and Notary Public with over 20 years of commercial and contract law experience.

She completed a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1992 to 1998, and enrolled as an attorney with the Legal Practice Council (LPC) in South Africa as a member of the Gauteng Bar (Registration number: 18088). She entered private practice, rising to Partner at H Miller, Ackermann and Bronstein Attorneys in 2001.

She established her legal practice in Johannesburg in 2013, specialising in high court, civil, corporate and commercial litigation, gaming law, local government law, insurance, company law, construction and liquidations. She is also a Notary Public, concentrating on the drafting of commercial contracts, antenuptial contracts and notarizing and authenticating documents for foreign use. She serves as the Company Secretary of South African Black Women in Law (SABWiL) since July 2018.

jeffrey alam

Advisor

Jeffrey served as General Counsel at Noble Resources Limited based in Hong Kong for 15 years.

He holds an LLB Hons from the University of Manchester and qualified as a lawyer in both Hong Kong and the UK. He previously worked as Executive Director/Principal, Morgan Stanley (7 years) and Asia General Counsel (Investments), AIG (7 years).

He now has a Portfolio career, working variously as a Consultant at MinterEllison in Hong Kong, a Director Novus Life Sciences, and Senior Strategic Business Advisor to Provenance Gold Corp.

tammam akkari

Advisor

Tammam is an international business lawyer and brings to the Board 25 years of experience in coporate commercial, governance and icoporate investments to both companies and family offices.

Tamma’s expertise encompasses criss jurisdictional transactions in multi-cultural envirnments, and maps closely with the practice fo Rubus Law. He brings specialist experience in M&A, processes across the private equity lifescycle, organisational develment and business restructuring/business turnaround.