Clive Coker
UK based entrepreneur, MBA, MSc, with interests in Biofuels in the UK and and Ghana. Business coach, public speaker, innovation workshop facilitator.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.jatrophaafrica.com |
| Industries: | Cleantech, Financial, Food and Drink, Health, Internet, Lifestyle, Travel |
| Skills: | Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Entrepreneurship, German, Investment, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public speaking, Sales, Web design, Writing |
| Next step: | We have started to import a new product - non food derived biofuel. We are looking for links with pure plant oil, or biodiesel, or pelletised fuel or solid fuel companies. |
| Location: | London |
| Groups: | IDEAS EMPOWERED, Ideas Empowered |
| Visas: | Europe, Ghana |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Consulting opportunities, Creating a group, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Getting press, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Trading services |
| Tags: | biofuels, business planning., ceo, director, ghana, Innovation, jatropha, jatropha oil, jatropha seeds, London, mba, msc, public speaker, pure plant oil, start up consulting |
| Schools: | Open University Distance Learning (UK), University of Glasgow |
FULL BIO
UK based entrepreneur, MBA, MSc, with interests in Biofuels in the UK and and Ghana. Business coach, public speaker, innovation workshop facilitator.
Founded Lion Bridge Ventures in 2006 and raised equity funds to establish a non-food biofuel producing operation.
Business Innovation Consultant and Coach to a number of London Development Agency, and London University programmes.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Universities, Colleges and companies |
| Position: | Innovation consultant |
| Time period: | December 2003 - Present |
| Description: | Since 2004, Clive has been an innovation consultant to Universities, Colleges and companies, mostly through London Development Agency funded initiatives in support of knowledge transfer. |
| Employer: | Lion Bridge Ventures |
| Position: | CEO |
| Description: | Clive Coker established Lion Bridge Ventures as a UK based biofuel feedstock supplier. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Jatropha Africa, clients can be supplied with non food biofuels, derived from oil seed bearing trees, cultivated close to Lake Volta in Ghana.
Under Clive’s leadership, Jatropha Africa has worked with the tribal councils of 3 villages in Ghana to agree land leases and working arrangements for the development of previously unused land, for Jatropha cultivation. This led to the establishment of plant nurseries, and the nomination of Jatropha Africa by the Ghana Ministry of Energy to be the private sector partner of a UNIDA funded project for the electrification of rural communities The land cultivated by Lion Bridge Ventures has not previously been used for food crops, and is being brought into use under profit sharing lease agreements covering 50,000 Hectares of land which is at best marginal for food production. Since 2008, Lion Bridge Ventures began generating revenues from the sale of oil seeds to research centres and biofuel refiners. |
| Employer: | UK government funded innovation projects, working with UK universities and the DTI Innovation Unit |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Description: | Prior to establishing Lion Bridge Ventures, Clive successfully managed UK government funded innovation projects, working with UK universities and the DTI Innovation Unit. His first career was as a Chartered Engineer managing construction projects in the UK, Germany and the Falkland Islands. Such projects included the design and construction of aircraft support facilities, hospitals and oil fuel depots. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Open University Distance Learning (UK) |
| Time period: | 1989 - 1994 |
| Degree: | Creative Management, MBA |
| University: | University of Glasgow |
| Time period: | 1985 - 1989 |
| Degree: | Environmental Engineering, MSc |
PUBLICATIONS
| Books: | The Winning Report, contributing author, published by DTI |
Clive's Startups (1)
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Jatropha Africa/Lion Bridge Ventures Ltd., UK
Bio Diesel Feedstock and Bio Diesel Consultancy Company.Our commercial activities include, growing seedlings, contract planting, harvesting and selling oil seed as feedstock to bio diesel companies and farmers.
Clive is Following (1)
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Jatropha Africa/Lion Bridge Ventures Ltd., UK
Bio Diesel Feedstock and Bio Diesel Consultancy Company.Our commercial activities include, growing seedlings, contract planting, harvesting and selling oil seed as feedstock to bio diesel companies and farmers.
Clive's Contacts (1)
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Richard Ossei
Information systems graduate from Middlesex University, with MA in Marketing and Business Management from London Metropolitan University. Currently working as Sales & Marketing Manager at Lion Bridge Ventures Ltd (Jatropha Africa).