SENIOR TEAM
Noela Engemise
Senior Consultant
Noela has more than 18 years of experience in West and Central Africa working for state-owned as well as private enterprises.
She rose through the corporate ranks and became the most senior strategy officer in a agro-processing group with 25.000 employees, the largest employer in her country.
Noela is very well-versed in setting up and managing agricultural estates in tropical regions and running those in the most efficient way through agro-management. She is as well very well-versed in negotiating supply conditions with international buyers.
Dr. Werner Heil
Senior Consultant
Werner has more than 25 years in industrial experience in Asia, Europe, and Africa. He served as a management consultant for an U.S. consulting company as well as a VP of a German EUR 12 bn sales specialty chemicals company at age 31.
Since more than 15 years, Werner is GM of HYG, a specialty consulting company that Werner works mainly in chemical industries and agro-processing as well as in adjacent industries such as automotive, food & beverage, cosmetics, and more. He advised more than 32 multinational corporations on investment and business matters.
In China, he witnessed first-hand over two decades how industrialization can be successfully done and he extends this passion to African and into the Caribbeans.
Thierry Laurent
Senior Consultant
Thierry has more than 35 years of top management experience in Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbeans. He served as CEO and Managing Director of international cooperations.
Thierry’s core industries, which he is working in since decades, are chemical industries and in particular chemicals/products for industrial and food & beverage use out of agricultural raw materials.
Thierry furthermore has an unmatched track record in venture capital and as a business angel.