Our People

Barakat is a U.S. Certified Public Accountant with extensive experience in the field of Financial Services. In particular, she works with the firm Sana|Elias, a Swiss based consulting firm with a lean, highly qualified, cross-disciplinary team that gathers knowledge across finance, technology, product development, strategy and innovation consulting.She was a managing member of the Deutsche Bank Global Banking (Corporate Finance and Trade Finance) in Tokyo, Japan. While based in Tokyo, she also worked in emerging and frontier Asian economics. Prior to Deutsche Bank, she worked in the Asset Management division of Morgan Stanley in New York. At PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York, she managed expansive audit teams specializing in the financial services sector which catered to many of the industry's major players.Barakat Balmelli holds a 1995 - 1999 Bachelor of Business Administration (B. B.A.) in Public Accounting obtained from the prestigious Pace University - Lubin School of Business. She brings to the Rosand Group, a robust skill set that includes Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions, Finance, Capital Markets, Strategy and more.

Vincent is a seasoned professional with over three decades of Legal/ Financial Services Industry experience. He is a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. His corporate and commercial practice covers Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has vast experience in complex carve-out and public-to-private transactions in diverse industries.He was at various times, Head of Legal Services and Company Secretary at three commercial banks in Nigeria and currently serves as the Managing Partner of Capstone Solicitors with focus on Mergers and Acquisition advisory services. He currently advises major Investment banks and large financial institutions in leveraged finance, acquisitions, real estate finance, restructuring, refinancing and asset- based lending.Vincent has to his credit a number of awards for professional and academic excellence including as the Best Graduating Student, Faculty of Law Abia State University, 1989. He has attended several professional and Management Development courses and programs globally and holds a Master of Laws Degree (LLM) of the University of Lagos and an MBA from ESUT Business School, Lagos.

Tony has started and sold over 100 companies over the course of his business life.  He is a non traditional Capital Markets specialist skilled at capitalizing ventures focusing on Alternative Energy, Real Estate, SaaS and AI. He is the Creator of the "Business Casino" Scaling and Growth System, Programmatic Acquisitions Method, Neuro Science Funding Method, Investor Connector Investor network, Neuro Science Sales Conversion Method, Customer Connector Network and other business scaling and funding proprietary systems.Tony has been exposed to financial management, marketing, economic & investment research and investment management. He also has vast experience in relationship management, consulting, systems implementation, financial advisory services and Mergers & Acquisition.As a Strategic Partner/Advisor to Rosand Group, he brings on board extensive expertise and relationships developed with Multi Family Offices (MFOs), Private Equity Firms and Ultra High Networth Individuals.Tony is currently the Managing Director/CEO of SCALE Capital Partners and graduate of Calhoon Engineering School with bias in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering

Dries van Wagenberg  is an entrepreneur with 30 + years’ experience in importing and distribution as well as in handling cross border transactions involving physical commodities. After graduating from Washington & Lee University in 1977 Dries spent two years in commercial banking then he took over his family’s import and distribution business which he sold in 2000.In 2004 Dries started distributing specialty chemicals with emphasis on fuel treatment (middle distillate fuel in particular). This effort led to the creation of The Right Stuff LLC dba Van Smith ( www.VanSmithCo.com). For the next 12 years Dries focused his distribution efforts on the U.S., Canada and Colombia. Gradually Van Smith’s chemical customers began asking for help sourcing both carbon-based fuels and sustainable alternatives.Today Van Smith’s business is divided into 3 segments as described below and operates internationally but principally on trades in Europe and West Africa. 1. Facilitating commodity transactions with emphasis on energy 2. Distribution of chemicals (both specialty and bulk) 3. Helping ventures in sustainable energy launch their businesses primarily by helping them to raise early-stage capital.