Cim Financial Services Ltd. announced that Teresa Clarke, founding chairman and CEO of Africa.com, has been elected to Cim Financial Services' board of directors. Clarke founded Africa.com in 2010, and has driven it to be one of the Africa-related websites providing news and information on all 54 countries in Africa. Previously she served as a managing director in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs, where she led corporate finance and merger transactions for Fortune 500 companies.
She continues to serve on President Obama's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, and the boards of the Student Sponsorship Programme of South Africa, Friends of the Legal Resources Centre (South Africa), and the African Leadership Network. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.