Nepal Service Projects

Dauman will share his experiences with The Nepal Initiative, an umbrella non-profit organization established to support education-related and entrepeurial projects in Nepal. The organization has been working in Nepal since 2012. The Nepal Initiative identifies and partners with existing organizations and acts as a funding provider for specific projects. 

About the speaker

James has spent the past 20 years in the investment banking and private equity sector across Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Originally with UBS, then as a founding partner of private invest firm Qeema Investments, and more recently as senior advisor to R.J. Fleming & Co., the private corporate finance boutique owned by the Fleming family.

Over the past nine years, James has undertaken, as both advisor and principal a range of equity, debt and M&A transactions in the Asia energy, infrastructure, food & beverage and agriculture sectors, with a particular focus on Indonesia.

In his role with R.J. Fleming & Co., James is currently workign with the UNDP and Scottish government on a project to mobilize greater private sector investment in support of UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is also in the process of establishing an office in Singapore to be the hub of R.J. Fleming & Co.'s business in Southeast Asia.

In addition to his role at R.J. Fleming & Co., James is a director and shareholder of two fast-growing Asian food & beverage companies, Island Beverages (rum) and Bootstrap Beverages (cold brew coffee).

Between 1999 and 2010, James spent nine years with UBS in the investment bank in London, and two years in the asset management division, as a senior founding member of the bank's infrastructure private equity fund in the United Arab Emirates, Invest AD-UBS Infrastructure Investment.

James is also the co-founder of The Nepal Initiative, a non-profit organization based in Singapore and Kathmadu that supports education and the development of sustainable small businesses in Nepal.

James has an MEng in Manufacturing Engineering and Management from the University of Durham in the UK.