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Global Vantage LLC specializes in the execution
of transactions in the carbon credit trading market.
Additionally, Global Vantage proactively advises clients
on the regulatory requirements affecting their emission
reduction projects and on the factors that affect the
monetization of the carbon credits derived from these
projects.
Global vantage has a competent, management
team possessing years of financial markets and entrepreneurial
experience with an extensive global network of contacts.
Our firm will leverage these assets to provide exemplary,
effective, personalized service for our clients.
Global Vantage aspires to be a leader in
the carbon trading market and is currently active in
the South Pacific, Asia, Caribbean and Africa.
Management Team
Salman Zafar - Director
Selwin George - Director
Kojo Parris - Consultant
Salman Zafar
- Director
is a Renewable Energy Advisor with expertise in biomass
energy, waste-to-energy processes, solid waste management,
cleantech investment and social entrepreneurship. Apart
from managing his advisory firm BioEnergy Consult, he
has been actively involved in fostering sustainable
development and creating environmental awareness in
developing countries. Salman is in great demand in international
renewable energy circles and sits on the advisory board
of several highly reputed Indian, Nigerian and American
firms.
Salman has been a significant contributor towards popularizing
biomass energy technologies and in making ‘waste-to-energy’
a byline for sustainable development. Being a prolific
author, he has many popular publications to his credit
in reputed journals, magazines, newsletters, and blogs.
Salman has a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Chemical
Engineering from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
(India).
Selwin George
- Director
Over a period of 12 years, Selwin George functioned
as the CEO of multiple entrepreneurial endeavors in
the Caribbean. Immediately prior to joining Global Vantage,
Selwin spearheaded the launch of Guyana’s first kidney
dialysis center. This experience steeped Selwin in a
range of issues that are pertinent to international
business.
Previously, Selwin worked as a venture capitalist in
the U.S. for Citigroup Investments Technology Ventures—a
$400 million venture fund that is comprised of Citigroup’s
proprietary capital and is focused on investing and
guiding early stage technology, media and health care
companies. As one of seven investment professionals
on the team, Selwin managed over 15 of the 65 portfolio
companies.
Selwin received his B.S. in finance from New York University
and Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University.
Kojo Parris
- Consultant
Kojo Parris has extensive experience in global business,
including working for Booker-Tate Engineering Management
in Papua New Guinea, Australia, Kenya and Canada and
for Deloitte & Touche in London. A former investment
banker, he was most recently a founding director of
the IRAZU Group, a private investment vehicle that is
engaged in global commodity trading and applying private
equity methodologies to endeavors with a high social-value.
Previously, Kojo worked for NM Rothschilds’ London telecoms
corporate finance team, where he worked on Cote d’Ivoire
and Republic of Congo privatization mandates. Next,
he worked for the Merchant Bank of Central Africa, where
he was the senior corporate financier. There, he buttressed
their advisory project finance practices and restructured
their asset management business. He also joined the
promoter team that executed the first hostile Leveraged
Buy Out (LBO) on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange.
As the head of corporate development at TA Holdings,
then a sprawling conglomerate of over 30 subsidiaries
and associates, he strategized and oversaw the spinning-off
of non-core businesses. He then worked with Takura Ventures
Fund, The Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) 2nd top
performing private equity fund, based in Harare.
In addition, Kojo worked for African Banking Corporation
Holdings (ABCH), where he built a seven-country, 32-person
team spanning the corporate finance, asset management,
unit trusts and private equity disciplines, across south,
east and central Africa. He then relocated to Johannesburg
to establish ABCH’s regional headquarter.
Kojo maintains relationships with various political
and social leaders in sub-Saharan Africa and is the
chairman of “Homeless Talk,” a newspaper for indigent
persons in Johannesburg.
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