Board and Senior Management.

Emmanuel R Rominiyi. FCA; FCCA; FCIT; MBA – Chairman/Group CEO

A Senior Business Executive; Chartered Accountant; maritime; aviation; petrochemical; and energy professional with expansive strategy, corporate governance, Governance Risk and Controls (GRC), project management and corporate finance experience across multi-billion-dollar global operations.

Devised and successfully delivered strategic projects and initiatives with a proven history of leading successful and engaged teams. Wide breadth of cross-functional and diversified experience in maritime, aviation, petrochemical, energy, and power; oil and gas.

Track record of delivering revenue generating and improvement strategies; tangible cost savings and efficiencies with an ability to operate and influence at the highest levels in large multinational organisation.

Advanced Project Management Skills with multiple project deliverables across 70 countries in maritime, aviation, power; petrochemical under financial, operational, engineering and procurement functions.

Awareness of diverse cultures which was gained through over 25 years extensive international work experience in over 30 countries.

Emmanuel Rominiyi career highlights include but not limited to:

Developed a strategic equity debt financing strategy for a US$5billion petrochemical project for the government of Abu Dhabi in United Arab Emirates in 2013.
Managed and delivered a US$200m equity and bridge loan financing transaction for an Abu Dhabi Government owned petrochemical company.
Provided strategic and tactical leadership at board and audit committee levels on corporate governance, risk management, internal audit, and finance strategy for Abu Dhabi Government owned petrochemical company in United Arab Emirates.
Managed Etihad Airways PJSC (United Arab Emirates National carrier) strategic internal control frameworks and integrated audit portfolios with a revenue base of over US$15 billion across over 70 countries.
Oversaw British Airways Plc’s Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa’s corporate and financial reporting processes, business strategies and audit portfolios across 63 countries with revenue of £2.3bn and a cost base of £750m in complex and multicultural settings.
Co funded and currently the Senior Partner of RFR Professionals International Group Ltd, an international advisory group headquartered in the UK with presence in over ten countries that delivers strategy design and implementation, financial advisory, project finance; enterprise risk management framework; maritime, aviation, energy, oil and gas and other industry specific consulting.
Developed a number of strategic maritime safety frameworks and training frameworks for the maritime regulator in Nigeria.
Co funded and currently the board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Caspian Pacific Group Ltd, an established company across various sectors including Oil and Gas, Power, and Energy; Professional and Business Management Advisory Services; Pharmaceuticals; Agriculture; as well as Transports and Logistics with presence in the UK, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.

Paul Norris. M.Sc.; B.Sc.; CISI; GARP – Chief Investment Officer

Paul has over 25 years’ experience in energy, infrastructure, and natural resource projects with roles in investment, finance and development in Europe Middle East and Africa; and Asian regions.
His experience spans both developed (UK, Europe, USA, Australia, and North Asia) and emerging markets (ME, Africa, South Asia, and Russia/CIS).
He has strong experience in investment appraisal, financial advisory, financial structuring and modelling, debt underwriting and arranging project and acquisition finance.
Paul has worked as a Senior Infrastructure Advisor at the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance (DOF) where he led the government’s alternative and infrastructure finance capability.
He also ran DOF’s USD5bn infrastructure fund since its inception in 2014 targeting infrastructure investments mainly in Russia/CIS.
Paul also gained valuable transaction expertise and experience in prior senior roles at ACWA Power, VTB Capital, ABN AMRO, EDF Energy, and Bank of Ireland.
He has strong transaction and deal-closing experience on over $30bn of structured or project finance and principal transactions as a financial or industry sponsor.
Paul has an MSc in Metals & Energy Finance from Imperial College (London); He is an Energy Risk Professional (GARP); a Member of Chartered Institute of Securities & Investment (CISI); a Chartered Engineer (UK); a Chartered Geologist (UK)
He is a Certified Energy Risk Professional (ERP) by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and he possesses strong industry technical capability as a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Geologist.

Paget Nyazika, M.Sc. – Group Chief Operating Officer

Paget Nyazika has over thirty years diversified energy generation, transmission and distribution experience. He has provided global strategic and tactical energy solutions across the world with expansive energy generation, transmission and distribution experience in United States, United Kingdome, European Grid in Brussels, Ireland and Zimbabwe.At Coreso in Brussels, Pages managed and co-ordinated the European power system security with special emphasis on
- Strategic merging of the European grid
- Security calculations
- Grid adequacy
- Capacity calculations
- Outage co-ordination
He also manage and delivered the following projects at Coreso
- Outage Planning Co-ordination
- Channel Capacity Calculation
- CGMES Common Grid Model Exchange Standards
While working at the United Kingdom National Grid as Power Systems Engineer, Paget delivered:

Real time operation of the High voltage network of England, Wales and Scotland Network mainly of 132KV, 275KV and 400KV.
Manage power flows, voltage profiles, switching, constraints, fault levels, stability post and pre-fault actions

While at IUS in Republic of Ireland, Paget was

Involved in the upgrade of the distribution network to increase the capacity of the distribution network.
He managed the ESB network upgrade requirement 10kv to 20kv through IUS
He also delivered a number of project on IUS integrated Utility services and ESB Electricity Supply Board

In the United States of America, Paged worked at Landmark Electrical to deliver;

The Installations of industrial and commercial network in California
Testing of installations for compliance

While in Zimbabwe, Paget

delivered the strategic transmission of 132kv and 330kv
Was involved with the construction, operations and maintenance of the High voltage network of the Zimbabwe electricity grid.
Managed the administrative functions of unit line and substation staff.
He also worked as a High voltage power system controller for the Zimbabwe Electricity grid at their control centre.
Was involved in construction of distribution substations from 0.4kv 11kv, 33kv and 132kv.
Managed the maintenance of the above substations for routine and/or under fault.
He also ensured operations of the distribution network to maintain security of supply.
Paget was also responsible for new connections for domestic, commercial, farming and associated metering.

Paget has a M.Sc. in Electrical Power Systems from University of Bath; Certificate in Management and City & Guilds Technician Certificate in General Transmission and Distribution

Olubukola Ogunjobi ACMA; MBA – Group Chief Financial Officer

Bukky is chartered management accountant with top quality experience spanning over a decade, predominantly in FTSE 100 companies.
Bukky earned her mastery of financial management and strategy development through her ability to adapt to diverse challenges in her different roles in industries ranging from Pharmaceuticals, Beverages, sports/clothing, on-line retailing/fashion, Healthcare, Banking, and international development guiding non-profits through their financial relationships with multilateral donors like the USAID and the British DFID.
Bukky has had vast international hands-on experience being in charge of UK, Benelux, Netherlands and Ireland at Adidas UK, and liaising with other countries including key merging economies for banking giant – Barclays.
She has over 15 year’s international experience in internal audit, risk management, financial management, management accounting, and financial planning, analysis and strategy development.

Simbarashe Gunzvenzve B. Tech – VP, Transmission and Distribution

Simbarashe is a strategic and result-oriented electrical engineer with over twenty years diversified experience in energy Project Management, energy project budgeting and estimating, energy project strategic management, technical support and client Relations.
He is experienced in managing large scale projects with value of up to $200 million with proven ability to identify business opportunities and provide the management and technical expertise to achieve project strategic goals.
A Strategic manager with strong interpersonal, communication, problem solving and decision making skills Simbarashe possess the ability to establish and maintain strong alliances; lead and motivate teams; drive projects to successful completion; convey complex technical requirements/data; exceed customer expectations and achieve fiscal bottom-line results.
Simbarashe has delivered the following over his professional career:
Successfully coordinated the implementation of the national prepaid metering project with contract value of $200 million for Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company.
Assisted in the post implementation strategy that improved Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company’s revenue collection by 35%.
Reduced non-technical losses associated with revenue assurance by18% and recovered more than $12 million in lost revenue.

Managed a collective project portfolio for the Rural Electrification Fund/Agency of value $8 million for the years ending 2017 and 2018.
Successfully delivered various electrical and Power Engineering Project Management of Grid, Solar and Biogas Technologies for Zimbabwe Electricity.
Successfully delivered various electrical Power system engineering technical works, Power System project planning, implementation, monitoring and control, closure and change management.

Paul Shultz. MBA – Vice President- Financial Advisory & Project Finance

Paul is a highly skilled oil & gas finance professional with over 15 years of experience in global energy markets; He has extensive experience in advising, analysing and capital raising for a variety of oil & gas projects and companies throughout the oil & gas value chain;
Paul has extensive experience in the downstream sector, including petroleum refining, distribution & marketing and some experience with petrochemicals sector.
He has extensive worldwide experience in project finance for the oil and gas sector, including for major midstream pipeline and natural gas projects; private equity investment in the downstream sector, primarily in refining assets as well as distribution and marketing; overview and credit analysis of a large petrochemical producer; review of numerous potential corporate and asset investments in the downstream sector, including petrochemicals, gas-to-liquids and LNG facilities.
Paul has managed Hundreds of Millions of Dollars public and private equity investments in the power generation, oilfield services, refinery & retail station network, and compressed natural gas within the West African region and European countries.
Has led billions of Dollars Merger & Acquisition projects & advisory in the oil & gas industry; aviation and logistics business; and electricity distribution sector worldwide.
Paul is a Fulbright Scholar, he holds his Bachelor Degree from Princeton University and an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Oladayo Salawu. B.Engr.; MBA – Chief Operations Officer, Nigeria

Oladayo Salawu is a power systems development engineer with over 12years experience in the deployment and management of alternative power solutions involving generation (captive &embedded) and distribution (smart grids, and off grid) solutions.
Oladayo have vast experience in power plant designing, operations modelling and management, power systems audit and appraisal, grid development and optimization, systems integration, and project management.
He managed gas power plant asset worth over US$40m with over 58km of distribution network, which is one of the biggest IPPs in southwest Nigeria.
Oladayo has helped developed and has managed several IPP solutions across the public and private sectors in Nigeria with total combined portfolio of over US$200m.
He has a B. Tech mechanical engineering and also an MBA from the Ladoke Akintaola University of Technology, Ogbomoso. He has undergone a wide range of certifications and training with world renowned OEM`s in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and all across Europe.
Oladayo is still presently working on several Greenfield and brownfield projects across Africa eared towards optimization of existing power.

Kayode Olaitan Rominiyi. HND – Executive Director, Operations & Maintenance, Nigeria

Kayode Rominiyi is a resourceful engineer with versed experience in Mechanical works and Production Engineering. He brings on board more than twenty years of experience in maintenance of gas turbine, gas and diesel generators, Compressors, Valves, Heating Ventilations & Air Conditioning (HVAC) and other reciprocating equipment.
Kayode started his career with C.B & I Nigeria Limited in 2000 and was deployed to the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) plant in Bonny Island, Rivers State for operation and maintenance works.
He later joined TSKJ Limited has Maintenance Manager. Kayode had the opportunity to work with the Nigeria foremost Energy Company –Negris Limited – where he gained considerable cognizant experience in carrying out scheduled and unscheduled maintenance on several power plants and their balance of plant (BoPs).
Thereafter, Kayode joined Viathan Engineering Limited as a Maintenance Manager overseeing operation and maintenance of six (6) power plants with a combined installed capacity of about 50MW (Lagos Island -17MW, Ilupeju -4MW, Lekki -8MW, Lishabi -8.5MW).
Kayode’s contribution at different times in maintenance position in the aforementioned companies cannot be underestimated as his efforts brings about high reliability, durability, availability and profitability to the plant.
Kayode graduated from the Polytechnic, Ibadan with Higher National Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He attended several trainings locally and abroad on troubleshooting, operation and maintenance of power plant.