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SOUTH AFRICA www.ceotodaymagazine.com 44 CEO Today Africa Awards 2017 EDWIN KIKONYOGO CEO of AEP ENERGY AFRICA Edwin is a co-founder and executive director of Destiny Group, which held diverse investments in the Property, Services, Industrial Gases and Pharmaceuticals industries. Since 2012, Edwin has been leading Destiny’s energy project development teams, currently involved in developing cogeneration projects and Battery Energy Storage projects, LNG conversion to power and LNG supply projects, an acquisition of natural gas producing fields, electricity agreements and signing distributor and licensing partnerships with international leaders on the energy value chain. Between 1994 and 2005 Edwin worked at Citibank CIB, Deutsche Bank and as Head: African Corporate Finance and Debt Capital Markets for Barclays Capital. He has deep experience in structuring and financing corporate lending, investment banking and corporate, structured and project finance in the mining, oil and gas), telecoms and infrastructure sectors across Africa. 2nd Floor, 28 Fricker Road, Illovo, Sandton, 2196 Tel: +27 11 268 5540 Fax: 086 506 7061 Email: info@aep.co.za ABOUT EDWIN KIKONYOGO CONTACT www.aep.co.za FIRM PROFILE AEP’s primary intent is to own and operate a variety of clean energy facilities across the African continent. Our vision is to significantly improve the quality of African lives by increasing access to and the use of clean energy. We aim, inter alia, to be the preferred: • Purchaser of near or newly commissioned energy capacity, such as power plants, typically developed and built by energy project developers. • Owner, manager and operator of strategic energy facilities, such as gas terminals, which transmit and distribute our own, as well as our customers, energy products. • Investment asset for institutions and investors looking for exposure to the clean African, energy, infrastructure and products sector, through a JSE stock exchange listed and regulated company. AEP seeks to play an increasingly significantly role in advancing clean energy usage across Africa, in a safe, reliable and cost-effective manner. We do this by owning, operating and maintaining a portfolio of clean energy assets including: • Specialist fuel storage terminals, specifically around our fuel of choice, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). • Pipelines (physical and virtual) that transport primary energy fuels such as LNG. • Cogeneration plants generating electricity, heating and chilling energy, as well as mega-watt scale battery energy storage solutions located close to energy consumption points. • Electricity only plants generating electricity for utilities and industry.