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A chartered
engineer with over 30 years commercial and project management
experience particularly in the former Soviet Union and Africa.
Having developed my skills in the UK process industry I moved
into project management and spent 16 years working for a major
UK multinational company, Lonrho Plc, as a Senior Executive
developing new projects and setting up new company operations.
Over the past 6 years I have been a director of my own company
principally working with a Swedish company designing and supplying
pre-engineered buildings to international companies operating
in emerging markets. |
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Key
Achievements |
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Building
projects of pre-engineered buildings to some 30 projects
Former Soviet Union in past 6 years |
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Establishment
of Lonrho Plc trading operations in the former Soviet
Union |
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Building
Ghana's No 1 hotel |
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Project
managing the implementation of a new sugar cane factory
and estate in West Africa |
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Detailed
Curriculum Vitae |
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| 1996
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WilPro
Ltd. |
Director |
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MBO
of LonTop Housing Ltd from Lonrho Plc working with Top Housing
AB, a small Swedish company, designing and supplying pre-engineered
buildings for emerging markets. [Director and shareholder] |
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Commercial
responsibility for building projects in Russia, Kazakhstan,
Angola, and Antarctica amongst others. |
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Feasibility
studies, tenders documents and concept designs for international
contractors and developers in Africa and Kazakhstan |
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| 1990
- 96 |
Lonrho
Plc. |
Senior
Executive; Director various Lonrho companies |
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Responsible
to the Project Director and Lonrho main board. Director of 13
group companies |
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Investment,
technical analysis and establishment of group companies in new
territories plus new projects in the existing group companies |
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Group's
development in the former Soviet Union setting up operations
in 1993 principally trading cigarettes, cotton as well as business
obtaining opportunities for various group companies |
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Established
LonTop Housing selling pre-engineered buildings to international
organisations in the FSU. |
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Recruitment
of senior management, establishment of annual budgets - operating
and control systems and development of the new company plans.
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Design,
international financing and construction of the premier hotel
in Ghana in 11 months in 1991. |
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| 1984
- 90 |
Lonrho
Plc. |
Projects
Executive |
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Evaluated
new company acquisitions and new projects. Undertook detailed
technical evaluations and management reviews into Group companies
principally in Africa. Some significant projects undertaken: |
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Kenya: |
Hotel
acquisition; Pork processing facility acquisition and
expansion, |
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Tanzania: |
Tea
Estates acquisition and redevelopment of company operations
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Uganda: |
Barter
trade against cotton operations. |
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Mozambique: |
Tomato
Cannery acquisition. |
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| 1980
- 84 |
Lonrho
Sugar Corporation Ltd., |
Consulting
Engineer / Deputy Project Manager |
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Deputy
Project Manager for the engineering co-ordination and implementation
of a $200 million sugar cane project in Benin, West Africa.
Duties included liaison with U.K. banks plus monitoring and
control of the European contractors supplying equipment as well
as long periods on site during factory start-up. |
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Evaluation
and implementation of sugar related bio-energy projects in many
African countries |
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| 1978
- 80 |
Sulzer
Brothers U.K. Ltd., |
Project
Sales Engineer. |
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U.K.
sales of complete chemical plants and processes plus evaporation
and distillation equipment. |
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| 1972
- 78 |
Newell
Dunford Engineering. |
Assistant
Project Engineer to Project Manager. |
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Project
Manager on a salt recovery plant installed in USA. |
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Process
design, sales, project management and commissioning various
designs of rotary dryers for the food and chemical industries.
Travelled extensively worldwide on sales and project implementation |
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