Our Experts are responsible for project management
The Asjeba team consists of highly qualified and experienced experts in a great variety of processional fields. This guarantees that all projects will be developed with profound expertise using the synergy provided by our team.
HISKO H. BAAS, lic.oec. HSG, holds a master’s degree in Economy from the University of St. Gall, Switzerland, and is a company director and entrepreneur with more than 40 years’ experience in banking, investment banking, merger & acquisition transactions and project planning and execution. He is the initiator and manager of the ASJEBA GROUP, a partnership of private individuals and companies dedicated to improving the living conditions of people living in rural regions in developing countries. The ASJEBA GROUP aims to do this through the sustainable development of plantations - designed as a commercially viable project - producing food supplements and vegetable oil for commercial applications such as bio fuel, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
Hisko Sr. will act as chairman of the Board of Directors thus shaping future vision and control the sustainable process of the concept. As long as the designated CEO has not yet come aboard Hisko Sr. will hold the position of CEO.
Jeannette Baas
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Interim HR, Intellectual property and legal advisor
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Interim HR, Intellectual property and legal advisor
JEANNETTE A. BAAS, economist, 40 years’ experience in HR (Tagesanzeiger), sparring partner for investment decisions and legal issues, trade marks (Metro Group) and Head of trade marks for the Schindler Group.
Jeannette will jointly with Hisko Sr. shape the future of the Asjeba concept and be interims wise responsible for HR, oversee trade mark development and legal issues.
GEORGE FRANCIS, PhD, CEO of JATROPOWER Group. After obtaining his PhD from the University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, he conducted 6 years of fundamental research on Jatropha. He also has extensive experience of managing intercultural projects. Dr. Francis played a key role in the DaimlerChrysler-DEG Jatropha project titled “Biofuels from Eroded Soils in India”, during his time at Hohenheim. This was the first comprehensive project to investigate the many aspects of Jatropha cultivation on wasteland, extraction of oil from its seeds, biodiesel production and the potential uses of the by-products remaining after oil extraction. He has acted as a consultant on Jatropha and other bio-energy projects to national governments, multinational financial institutions and private companies world-wide. He has several articles on the potential of Jatropha to his credit and has delivered keynote lectures on this and related topics at international fora. In December 2018 Jatropower was awarded with Solarimpulse Effcient Solution for their F1 Hybrid jatropha seeds. An innovative seed to facilitate production of new generation biofuel conforming to stricter sustainability guidelines through climate-smart agriculture.
George will be responsible, in cooperation with the agricultural university of Hohenheim, Germany and the local agricultural university, for the agricultural footprint of the plantations. What is going to be planted, in which sequence, where and how much? Once the soil is fertile again: what kind of vegetables, fruits or other plants can be planted between the rows of trees as the intercropping modus?
GEORGE GRUBER, studied Economics and Natural Resource Management in Erlangen/Nürnberg, Germany, and Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. His doctoral thesis (1992) outlines a new developed CO2-carbon based prize setting system, executed at the examples of pure plant oil, diesel and hydrogen. For 30 years he does R&D on pure plant oil as fuel for trucks, tractors, generators and 100% Renewable Energy Hybrid Systems in Latin-American, Asia and Africa. Dr. Gruber is co-owner of Vereinigte Werkstätten für Pflanzenöltechnologie, keeps 10 patents on engine technology, fuel production and fuel quality, grants licenses on it and sells know-how. Georg will be responsible for an energy transformation concept from centralized, limited fossil resources to decentralized 100% renewable energies systems, including an holistic CO2-Recycling Concept of various oil plants to Fuel, Food, Feed and Fertilizer.
George will be responsible to create a concept to transform local industry around the plantation (remote areas) from fossil oil dependence towards vegetable oil use.
Vice President MAN Energy Solutions. Dr. Tütken is responsible within MAN Energy Solutions for the sales of energy solutions including engines, turbines, storage and power plants for power generation customers in the region Europe. He has been working since 2006 for MAN Energy Solutions and previously over 12 years for ABB in the power generation sector. In his career, he was active in all regions of the world. His background is PhD in physics with a background in photovoltaic components.
Tilman and MAN Energy Solutions will provide invaluable input on the development of sustainable energy solution strategy and implementation plan which uses the crop and other resources of the project. (www.man-es.com)
Tilman and MAN Energy Solutions will provide invaluable input on the development of sustainable energy solution strategy and implementation plan which uses the crop and other resources of the project.
ANDREW YEOMAN, RIBA. BA hons. Dip. Arch. DipAA (USSR). Andrew Yeoman is the director of Tower 151 Architects, the design wing of GI Grupa and heads up Strategic Planning, and Development Analysis. With over 30 years in the business he brings a wide range of experience to the group as both a designer and project manager. Mr. Yeoman has been responsible for the Project Management of the largest development in Croatia, HAAC and main designer in several large-scale developments both in Croatia and Europe namely, the Orestaden programme in Copenhagen (won originally in an international competition) and the Adidas headquarters in Germany, and the ELT – the enclosure of the European Largest telescope. Andrew Yeoman’s key skills include design leadership, Urban planning, Constraint planning (incl. logistic and strategic frameworks), Design management, and Project, procurement and cost planning for large and multi-task projects (industrial and commercial sectors).
Andrew and his team will be responsible for planning and project managing the implementation of all infrastructure elements of the plantations, providing land-use planning, landscape-based strategy and solutions and settlement design.
MANFRED ZAHORKA, MD, MPH, QM Auditor is a Senior Public Health Expert, family physician, epidemiologist and project manager currently working at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel, Switzerland. Dr. Zahorka has worked for more than 30 years in development cooperations in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia managing and evaluating health systems support projects in the area of maternal and child health with a focus on family health and community health systems, sexual and reproductive health as well as organizational development with a focus on quality assurance and quality management in health. He continues to provide managerial and implementation support, training, supports operations research activities, conducts and supports quality assurance and quality management processes at a systemic and institutional level. He lived and worked for 10 years in West-Africa, mainly Benin and Gambia, and continues to manage and support public health programs in the East African Community (Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, East RDC since 2007), and Eastern Europe (since 2002). His present focus is on family health and integrated people centred care to address non-communicable diseases in Eastern European countries and the Balkans.
Manfred and his team will analyse the health system situation in and around the planned plantation and will implement a sustainable health system for the employees of the plantation as well as the local population.
Georgios Radoglou (Dipl.-Ing. / Universität Wuppertal)
“Clean Energy Transition advocate – Circularity fanatic – Sustainability Pioneer – Mentor”. Senior Managing Executive with entrepreneurial spirit. Versatile in P&L / overall financial management. Pioneer & public speaker / lector in Sustainable Development, Energy, Environmental Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Environmental – Social – Health & Safety Governance, Security, Capacity development. Experience in multi-national organisations, integrating sustainability into planning & strategic positioning. Over 25 years’ experience, having worked for organisations across a wide range of industrial sectors including oil & gas, energy, chemical, power plant construction, mining, metal & general manufacturing. Working experience including sustainable projects in Tunisia, South France, Greece, Romania & West Africa. German chartered expert on Occupational Health &Safety for all industry branches (FASI BMAS accreditation). Ten years’ experience in Greenfield project development from design to scale up phase of Renewable Energy projects (Photovoltaic, Geothermal Biomass & Heat pump technology, stand-alone on&off grid and/or building integrated). Fund & grants management, Investor relationship, public stakeholders, policy creation, licensing, O&M. Renewable Energy project development, Risk management, Energy resources management, Energy efficiency, Safety & Environmental due diligence & compliance auditing under all international standards (ISO 14001, 18001, 26001, 45001, 50001). Sector Team leader Covenant of Mayors Sub Saharan Africa – CoMSSA Clean energy transition initiative (September 2020)
RICARDO LUMENGO Born in Angola, Mr. Lumengo has lived in Switzerland since 1982 and acquired the Swiss Nationality in 1997. Mr. Lumengo studied law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and worked as lawyer in the field of international law and integration of foreigners and migrants. In 2004 he was elected as Member of the Council of the City of Biel / Bienne (Member of the Municipal Parliament), in 2006 he made his entry to the Grand-Conseil of the Canton of Bern (Member of the Regional Parliament) and in 2007 he was elected as Member of the National Council (Member of the National Parliament of Switzerland). Since 2014, Mr. Lumengo has been involved in and as of 2015 become a member of the Board of Directors of the Asjeba Group, that has the ultimate goal to establish agricultural projects in Africa to support sustainable development of rural areas.
Ricardo has been and will be responsible for future expansion in African countries.
Joachim stands for transparency and communication of Asjeba`s values and projects with investors in different sectors of the economy and civil society to make sustainable development and economics a global success story.
He has more than 30 years expertise as Managing Director in the Chemical-, construction- financial/ insurance sector and audit companies (big four). Main projects were analyse/design risk-/compliance- management -systems based on sustainability aspects for leading companies.
He was member of international committees e.g. WBCSD, ICC, UNEP and ISO to create guidelines and KPI`s for Green Economy, ESG-Invest and Carbon Inventars.
Christian is a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at ETH Zurich in sustainable cocoa production systems. From 2011 to 2019, he worked at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL), where he compared organic vs. conventional cocoa production systems in Bolivia for their agronomic, economic and ecological performance. From 2015 to 2018, he did his PhD on the cocoa swollen shoot virus disease in Ghana. He continues to work in the country on dynamic agroforestry systems with cocoa for his Post-Doc. Christian is also the founder of the Swiss-based association OPC (Obrobibini Peace Complex), which is implementing projects in Ghana, among them the establishment of a centre of excellence for sustainable social enterprises and circular economy, as well as a 20 ha organic agroforestry farm.
President/Founder
United Action for Children(UAC) Cameroon
Orock Thomas Eyong holds a Bachelor’sDegree in Public Law and Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling.He is President/Founder of United Action for Children-UAC Cameroon with more than twenty-four years of experience in community development work and functional education activities.
He is the Initiator/Proprietor of two model schools-Jamadianle Nursery/Primary School and International Children's Academy in Cameroon. He is very concerned with the welfare of Children and is out to see that children are well prepared to face the challenges of the future through quality and functional education. He is a strong proponent of education that prepares children more for the future than just for examinations.
