Cresco
Francois Viljoen serves as a Director at Cresco Project Finance, a Gauteng-based boutique Project Finance Advisory firm, since September 2008, delivering Financial Advisory and Transactional Advisory services to clients in the power and related sectors with a focus on technologies such as coal, gas, small hydro, wind, solar, and co-generation. Prior to this role, Francois worked at Eskom as a Corporate Specialist in Project Finance from January 2003 to August 2008, and at the Industrial Development Corporation as a Senior Account Manager from January 1998 to December 2002, where responsibilities included project management and the identification of new project opportunities. Earlier experience includes a position as Supervisor at PwC's Birmingham UK office from November 1996 to December 1997. Francois holds a degree from Stellenbosch University, attained between 1989 and 1993.
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Cresco
Cresco is a boutique financial advisory firm having as its core service the rendering of assistance to project promoters in the development of projects to a bankable stage and marketing those projects to investors and financiers. The project development continuum, from concept through feasibility analysis, finance structuring, funding and construction to operation, is a complex, intricate and multi-staged process where the promoter and other project participants require continuous specialist support. Cresco provides this specialist support and utilises its specialist expertise and skilled resources to support the entire project development process. It provides a broad range of services to clients engaged in the acquisition, development and financing across all industry sectors. Cresco is an authorised agent for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which is part of the World Bank Group and which provides political risk insurance to cross border investors and financiers. Cresco Project Finance has been shortlisted by Africa Investor, a leading international investment and communications group, for the prestigious Infrastructure Investment Awards 2014 as Advisor of the Year.