Keith Checkley began his finance career with various management assignments in Financial Institutions. He later assumed senior roles in credit and risk management and was responsible for, amongst other things, sector risk analysis, bank exposure monitoring, corporate restructuring, and turnaround management. He also spent time in Marketing and developing an extensive Business Development Project for the Southeast Region of the Financial Institution, which was later rolled out nationally. 

Keith's most recent corporate appointment was as Director-Strategic Consultant Business Development for a large Trillion International Financial Services group with HQ in London. 

Over the past years, Keith has worked as an independent Strategic Consultant, advising on several consulting situations and designing and implementing training programs for many educational institutes/business schools; banks; financial institutions and large corporates. He has had extensive experience in the UK, North America, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe; Middle East and Far East - including Malaysia/Singapore/ Hong Kong/China and South Korea. 

Keith has extensive knowledge and experience in working with Offshore centers; both in international co-operation and designing joint initiative programmes.  

Keith' academic experiences includes holding a Fellow in Banking appointment at the Manchester Business School and as a visiting Fellow at Cambridge University – the Moeller Management Centre, Judge Business School. 

In November 2008 Keith was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers Scotland and received the designation of Chartered Banker. He is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (London), and a member of their National Speakers Panel. Keith is author of 17 books on business finance with the most recent “Credit masterclass “recommended text for the chartered Banker MBA”. 

Mike Hill has been a Fellow of the London Institute of Banking and Finance since 1996. He has had many roles for the institute including visiting trainer and local committee member.

He holds a degree in Business Management (B.A). and has been working directly as an employee as well as indirectly as a trainer and consultant for financial institutions in 38 countries on the banking and microfinance sector, where he became equipped with hands-on experience in designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating SME lending initiatives on a vast majority of topics according to international best practices in the respective fields. 

Having worked for over 33 years in numerous positions for Barclays Bank.in UK, he is well endowed with in-depth practical knowledge of the functioning of a financial institution; that is focusing on a MSME clientele. He has been engaged in consultancy assignments focusing on the areas of SME lending and credit risk as well as training & coaching assignments on a variety of topics. 

Mike Hill started has been working with Frankfurt School since 2005 as an SME Finance expert on various projects, training expert and SME consultants under “Provision of Technical Assistance on SME Banking” project for the Société Générale – Social Security Bank Ltd (“SG-SSB” – now SG Ghana) and Ecobank in Ghana. He also prepared and delivered trainings under Strengthening the Capacity of the Ethiopian Institute of Financial Studies – National Bank of Ethiopia, Financial Sector Capacity Building Project in Ethiopia among others. He was an independent and full-time consultant delivering business lending courses in Tanzania Uganda, Zambia and Kenya on Credit assessment techniques, including mid corporate loans and project finance transactions, financial modelling, Credit approval process, post-disbursement monitoring techniques, Valuation of collateral, among others. 

He is highly experienced as Author and Certified Trainer of the course “The Certified Expert in SME Lending” at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and has previously acted as a lecturer of MBA classes on SME finance for international bankers.