Noel Verrinder is a principal in the Evaluation for Development practice at Genesis Analytics, based in London.

Noel is an evaluation specialist with specific skills in quantitative and qualitative impact evaluation methods. In addition to the evaluation work, Noel assists organisations in developing and implementing monitoring, evaluation and learning frameworks for their interventions using international good practices and standards. Noel works primarily in the fields of financial inclusion, affordable housing, agriculture, youth economic opportunities and consumer education. He has also worked with organisations implementing innovation, climate change and renewable energy interventions.

Noel holds a master’s degree in Economic Science as well as an honours degree in Property Studies, both from the University of Cape Town. Since the beginning of his career, Noel has completed numerous short courses on monitoring and evaluation standards, methods and techniques. Before joining Genesis, Noel was a volunteer fieldworker for J-PAL Africa and the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation.

Naheed Hassan is our engagement manager with North American donors and foundations for the Financial Services Strategy and Evaluation for Development practices. She is based in Toronto.

She is an entrepreneur and professional with start-up, strategic management consulting, and programme and project management experience spanning the private, public and non-profit sectors.

Naheed holds a masters in Public Administration and International Development from Harvard as well as a masters in Business Administration from the Institute of Business Administration.

Richard Ketley is a partner and director at Genesis, working in both the Johannesburg and Dubai offices. He is widely recognised and consulted as a leading expert on banking in Africa, and has worked with banking and financial sector clients throughout Africa and the Middle East.

He has led assignments with banks and financial institutions since he joined Genesis in 2003, working across the full range of specialist areas covered by the firm. He has worked with boards and management committees to address strategic challenges, advised on bank acquisitions and treasury strategy, and developed effective retail value propositions that meet both client and shareholder expectations. He has a particular interest in and focus on mobile payments and money transfers, as well as in solving the challenge of providing banking services to small businesses. He has advised many of the top banks in Africa and lectures widely on topics related to retail banking.

Before joining Genesis, Richard was the Head of Strategy: Africa for Standard Bank, where his responsibility extended to 17 countries and encompassed mergers and acquisitions as well as retail and card strategies. Prior to that, he worked in debt capital markets at Deutsche Bank. He gained in-depth insight into the needs and requirements of the financial sector in South Africa when he was the Chief Director of Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Oversight at the National Treasury. Working at the World Bank, he also played a key role in the development of South Africa's macroeconomic strategy and medium-term planning framework. His many assignments have included acting as an adviser to the Ugandan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.

Richard holds an honours degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and master's in Economics from London University, where he specialised in Finance.

Geeta Singh is an experienced litigation consultant. She has worked on a wide variety of cases in the fields of competition economics, compensation disputes and valuation. These cases have derived from several different industries including healthcare, publishing, rubber chemicals, health insurance, construction, media and airline transport.

Prior to working with Genesis, Geeta was based at the New York office of Cornerstone Research where she worked on a number of different cases including antitrust, finance and compensation cases. In the antitrust cases, she advised clients on market definition, the determination of market power, common impact, the determination of competitive effects and damages from conduct at issue.

Prior to her career in the litigation consulting , Geeta was based at the Centre for International Development at Harvard University where she worked on public policy issues for developing countries. She obtained her bachelor's in Economics from Delhi University, master's in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Tochukwu Egesi is an analyst in the Financial Services Strategy practice.

Prior to joining Genesis, he worked at Innovation Corner where he developed interventions in data science and healthcare for low resource areas in Nigeria.

He has a bachelor's in Economics from the Abia State University, Nigeria.

Tascha Terblanche leads the transaction advisory business within our Financial Services and Strategy practice.

Before joining Genesis, Tascha worked as an investment professional at Coronation Fund Managers, one of South Africa's largest asset managers. Her work entailed investing in companies across Africa for Coronation's Africa Frontiers Fund. During this time Tascha looked at opportunities in Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

Her project experience at Genesis has included the identification of target investments across select African markets for a large South African insurance company and due diligence on the short list of targets.

Tascha holds a master's in International Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Switzerland and a bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Cape Town.