People – EsgDevCo

Marc C. David

Resources en gestion Vistacor Inc.

Marc David is the President and Founder of Vistacor Management Resources Inc. and a graduate in Environmental Sciences from McGill University (B.Sc.) and the Université de Sherbrooke (MEnv) with over 35 years of experience in international business development, strategic planning and project management. As a global practitioner and business advisor, he has developed an extensive network of international partners in several sectors such as environment, oil and gas, energy and healthcare. He has unique strengths in discovering environmental solutions and securing appropriate project financing for clients at home and abroad.

Yomi Adeyemi

Rubicola Consulting

Yomi Adeyemi is the President of Rubicola Consulting, an environmental consulting firm with offices in Australia and Nigeria. He began his banking career at the Merchant Bank of Commerce (MBCOM) in 1998. He left in 2000 to join the Corporate Banking division of Lead Merchant Bank. While working at Lead Bank, he also worked in the Investment Banking Group which participated in various historical capital market transactions. In 2004. he works with Core Trust & Investment Limited as Head of the Financial Advisory Group. In 2008, he established Plat Shipping Limited.

– Member of the Board of the Nigerian Exchange Group.

-Graduate in mathematics/statistics

-Twenty years of diversified experience in finance and consulting with investment banks, brokerage services,

Patrice G. Llavador

Global Economic Development Corporation

Patrice Llavador holds a degree in architecture and a Master’s degree in planning/architecture from the Université de Montréal with 40 years of experience in architecture in Europe, Africa, Asia, North and Central America and the Caribbean. He served in France as an architect for 15 years. Became an expert in development while working on residential, commercial, industrial, hospital, hotel, marina and other projects. For more than twenty years, versed in tourism and hotel developments, while trying to get closer to eco-construction when the context allowed it and the financing of these operations. The lessons he has learned from his years of observation and work in an international context allow him to formulate solutions marked by this concern for continuity from the environment to the user while respecting both.

Maxime Ménivier

Almax Développement Canada Inc.

Founding President of Almax Development Canada Inc. For more than 30 years, Maxime Ménivier and his team have been assisting Canadian manufacturing or service companies in the realization and deployment of their international development strategy. His expertise and solid network have enabled him to help develop new markets as well as to develop strategies for manufacturing locations in search of competitiveness in all corners of the globe. Having carried out projects, or operations on more than 45 countries, mainly on the markets of emerging countries on the African continent and in Latin America, both for the private sector and governmental / institutional, his team is accustomed to negotiations, technology transfers, calls for tenders, PPPs, financing searches from the various federal and provincial levels as well as international donors etc. Maxime has been passionate and also involved in the manufacturing sector of component solutions for social housing.

Joseph Owolabi

Rubicola Consulting

Joseph Owolabi founded Rubicola Consulting in 2020, the first and only firm in Africa certified by the Climate Bond Initiative to provide verification services for green bond issuances. He previously worked for Deloitte and Price Waterhouse Coopers in Australia, Africa, North America and Europe. From 2014 to 2017, he was the leader in climate change and sustainability services at Ernst & Young in West Africa, where he was the co-organizer, (with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE)) of the Capital Markets Sustainability Conference. It helped Nigeria’s federal government report its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Paris Agreement as well as list the country’s first sovereign green bond – a first for emerging markets (and only the second in the world).
A proven leader in capital markets and accounting consulting in the telecommunications, banking and manufacturing sectors in Australia, Africa and the world, he was involved in the completion of Viva Energy’s $2.69 billion IPO, Australia’s largest.

-Pioneer President of Australian Sickle Cell Advocacy Inc.

-Member of the World Council of the Association of Chartered Accountants (ACCA) in the United Kingdom.

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