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company history

Creannovate was incorporated as a Limited Liability Company with a focus on execution of viable projects, developments, initiatives and ventures all over Africa; with strategic partnerships with world class companies placing Creannovate Inc on an elevated level for global competitiveness and operations, targeting emerging markets with focus on the Gulf Regions, Asia and Africa.

Creannovate is built on the principle of local content and collaborating with experienced foreign expertise, to train the local artisans, infiltrate new skills and technologies to enhance company growth.

OUR VISION

To be the best providers of impecable quality services above expectations; and create enormously guaguantian value beyond comprehension. To improvise, optimize and adopt appropriate modern technologies to be competitive in today’s volatile markets and harness all resources and wherewithall within our reach for positive and viable financial and economic outcomes.

OUR MISSION

To provide top notch services to exceed the expectations of our Clients by applying innovation, recruiting and retaining highly skilled and committed employees and taking advantage of emerging technologies. To improve shareholders’ and stakeholders’ value and contribute positively to African infrastructure and intellectual development whilst integrating our communities, people, and committing to social responsibilities and environmental sustainability. Forward-thinking, focused and with a collaborative approach with our Clients, we aspire to keep striving to positively affect our top and bottom lines.

OUR BRAND PROMISE

Our dedicated team draws on a strong and supportive network of partners to ensure that every project is delivered to required quality parameters, cost and schedule requirements; the result for our Clients, is a process that unfolds seamlessly and appears effortless. This promise we stand and live by.

our values

(Pride, Passion, Entrepreneurial Spirit, Collaboration & Integrity)

We are proud of our brand, our projects and people. Our pride in all these is a direct product of our passion for the work we do. We love what we do and fully committed to the tasks for every project we execute. To us, entrepreneurial spirit is more than just good business sense, it’s about taking initiative, generating new ideas and putting our creativity and intelligence to work where they are valued most at our job sites.

We understand that if a project is to be completed on time and on budget, and still without compromising quality, every single person on the job must collaborate. We believe that collaboration is founded on respect for one another, open and honest communication among ourselves, our customers and our partners and must be as horizontal and verical as it can be to enable us deliver on committments we make.
We act with integrity and with high ethical standards in everything we do and say, thereby earning and maintaining the trust and respect of our customers, partners and our employees.

International Business

Executive Management Team

Michael Oke P. Eng., MBA, PMP

Executive Chairman

About Michael Oke

A results-driven leader, certified Professional Engineer, seasoned Business Savvy and certi­fied Project Management Professional with a wealth of experience in General Manage­ment, Commercial, Corporate and Business Analysis & Development, Project Execution and Management, Asset Acquisition and Value Creation. His career is chronicled by di­ verse industry experience and he brings an effective mix of flexibility, drive and pragma­tism into initiating and closing strategies, negotiating contracts and agreements, form­ing and maintaining of strategic partnerships and alliances, opportunity maturation, technical support, budget and strategy planning, development and execution.
Michael has had leadership positions in progressive, people-oriented organizations across 32 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, where he has ef­fectively utilized his acquired knowledge, skills and expertise to improve services, maxi­mize revenue generation, reduce costs and lead times and mentored others, always with the objective of accomplishing company’s stated short, mid and long-term strategic goals, thereby positively impacting top and bottom lines. Great experience in identifying, devel­oping and managing value-creating opportunities and leading cross-functional, multi-cul­tural and multidisciplinary teams across major multi-national Energy, Petrochemical, EPC, Mining and Infrastructure Development companies as well as leading ventures and initia­tives geared towards improving business and financial performance. Always aiming to build long and mutually beneficial partnerships with the right stakeholders with focus on Social Corporate Responsibility, whilst being cognizant of Health, Safety and the Environ­ment as well as Community Development and overall Sustainability.
As Sierramin Bauxite Limited continues to drive a program to become one of the largest mining companies and provider of labour in Sierra Leone and in Sub Saharan Africa, he looks forward to a great tenure of achievements, financial growth, development and over­ all comprehensive positive impact to the Port Loko area and the Country of Sierra Leone at large.

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Andrew Rapai

Chief Technical Officer

About Andrew Rapai

With 37 years of Design and Engineering, Project Execution and Management, Plant Oper­ational and Maintenance experience across Petrochemical, Energy, Mining, Construction and Sulphur Forming and Handling sectors and for the last 4 years prior to joining the Sierramin Bauxite team, he involved in roles covering Commercial, Corporate and Business Development, Strategy and Planning, Finance and Program execution management. Led the design, engineering, procurement and construction of several revolutionary initiatives in the Petrochemical industry & business development function of a leading Gas & Power company. Led the Integration of a major E & P business acquisition, was Commercial Exec­utive for Asset Management of E&P fields, and Business development initiatives.
He initiated revolutionary design initiatives, provided economics support for capital invest­ment decision analyses, carried out project management of core energy and support in­frastructure (upstream, midstream and downstream) and managed diverse & high per­ forming teams of professionals as well as outsourcing service providers.
With a career across multiple countries across five continents, Andy has developed a number of core skills that include but are not limited to the following: Business Develop­ment, Negotiation, M & A, Asset Management, Commercial Strategy Development and Execution, Project Management, Business Planning. Investment Appraisals and Resource Allocation, Leadership/communication. He has been involved with defining strategy and business plans for (processing + transport + distribution, and Power) play and been Com­mercial Champion for designing and engineering systems for the optimization of plant op­erating assets to increase through-put as well as developing self-sustaining and scalable central processing facilities to maximize efficiency.
Vast with investment opportunity realization processes and up till Decision Gate 2 level as well as in- depth experience with the development of green field plant sites from the ground up and management of diverse teams of professionals across multiple disciplines for mega plant operations and maintenance functions to meet production targets whilst still mitigating risks, meeting compliance requirements, identifying and providing solu­tions, measuring performance and focusing on quality management, employee health, sustainability, safety and social responsibility.

Stewart Douglas

Director, Finance and Strategic Planning

About Stewart Douglas

Stewart has always had a passion for Finance, Economics, received a Canadian Securities Course and occupied various senior management positions across Western Canada, the last being with one of the top retailers in the world and was utilized as a leader in guiding teams to reach new levels of success and being noted for consistently building teams that exceeded set targets and objectives, increasing Clients base and reducing shrink and ex­penditure. Throughout his career, he has been involved in ensuring optimum performance at the highest levels, developing a number of core skills that include but not limited to the following: Business Development, Negotiation, Mergers and Acquisition, Asset Manage­ment, Commercial Strategy Development and Execution, Project Economics, Project Man­agement, Business Planning, Profit & Loss Responsibility, Investment Appraisals and Re­ source Allocation, as well as Leadership/Communication, Capital Raising and Project Fi­nance, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances Formation, Supply Chain Management, Busi­ness Planning, Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour.
Stewart has also been involved with Divestitures, Portfolio rationalization of company assets, Negotiating divestments and acquisitions of assets that provide complementary fit to existing portfolio, Negotiation of Alternative Funding for Asset Development and has maintained a live outlook of the Intrinsic Business Value of various portfolio groupings. Worked directly with other Senior Management team members and relevant staff on Proj­ect planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control, Studies teams, Operations, Tax Advisory, Legal and Finance advisor to appropriately frame opportunities and assure value creation throughout development cycle.
Coordinated several teams that provided on dedicated basis, frontline economic analyses to portfolio of development opportunities/projects through various decision gates/re­views, through to final Investment Decision.
He has vast knowledge, experience and expertise in Investment Proposals, divestment economics to support/facilitate deals' decision-making, carried out periodic economics evaluation and consolidation of all business plan submissions in respect of development studies, delivered staff competency development, coaching of regional economics skill pool and coordinated the Economics IT systems and Tool sets ensuring projects met scheduled timelines, were under budget without compromising HSE requirements or compromising quality standards by any means.

Pavel Gonchar

Director, Construction

About Pavel Gonchar

Pavel Gonchar has been involved with Construction projects as an advisory leader and with several senior management Construction Project roles under his belt. His responsibili­ties have included leading complex Construction and Infrastructure projects from initiation all through to execution, monitoring and controlling stages, all the way to project comple­tion; always under budget, on time and without compromising quality, meeting Customer expectations. He has extensive experience in Project innovative risk management systems on Projects across several countries and he has been able to efficiently and effectively identify and relate relevant technical issues to complete solutions using engineering princi­ples selected by counsel, thus avoiding scope creep which then facilitates project develop­ment using appropriate courses of action.
Pavel has led numerous international projects to success over the last 20 years working with Project owners and contractors and providing services such as plant operations, proj­ect management, construction management, process design, environmental and safety engineering, regulatory compliance administration, rule negotiation and testimony as well as consulting and HAZOP chairmanship.
He has extensive experience throughout all phases of Mine Construction development, Project Commerce with extensive experience drafting and negotiating numerous types of contracts and financial instruments. Pavel's engagement experience has included assess­ments of pre-design work, review/consulting on procurement contract forms, and advis­ing/analysis on project delivery methods, constructability reviews, estimation of proj­ect-capital cost submittals, catalog cuts and means, bidding activities, project start-up and operations, project management, construction management, scheduling, value engineer­ing, contract administration, procurement, quality assurance and errors and omissions.
He has also performed ISO 9000 and other audits, strategic planning, technical issue eval­uations and forensic engineering. In the risk management area, his experience includes project governance reviews, claims prevention, project risk assessment, project risk man­agement training/audits and the development of corporation-wide risk management pro­grams for multi-national corporations and public and private entities. His experience in project analysis and audits spans many countries, several industries and total installed cost values, with overall project values exceeding $500 million USD.

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Brimah A. Conteh

Director, Mining

About Brimah A. Conteh

Mr. Conteh is currently a General Manager for Sierramin Bauxite (SL) Ltd. He started as project manager in 2014 and became the technical director and Chief Operations Officer in 2017 after working with several poverseas based consulting firms on the project. For the past 7 years he has been working on the bauxite project with SRK Consulting (UK) and Mineral In­formation and Development Centre (MIDC; India). He fully participated in the development of several exploration and beneficiation protocols for a low/medium grade bauxite deposit to achieve a high marketable grade at reasonable recoveries. With his Mechanical engineer­ing background, he also participated in the development and assessment of two trial ben­eficiation plants for the same bauxite deposit.
Mr. Conteh is specialized in computer Aided Design, Mine Survey/planning and exploration resource assessment. He has a wealth of experience spanning over 23years in the mining industry. He worked as Mine Surveyor on the Koidu Kimberlite Project (2002-2006) where he rose to the rank of Chief Surveyor and Mine Planning Engineer; (Koidu Holdings (S.A)). He also served as Mining and Exploration Planning Engineer for SLDC -Kono (2006-2008) and later Surveying, Planning and GIS Expert, and Geological Advisor for Target Resource Expert -TME (2008-2009); all in alluvial Diamond and Gold Operations. He has also worked for Avivit Minerals Resources Ltd. Sierra Leone (2009-2011) and Milestone Mining Company as Mining and Exploration Planning Manager respectively. From 2011 - 2013 he worked as project Manager in Universal Gold Mining and Exploration Monitoring 3 different exploration project licenses in Sierra Leone.
Mr. Conteh has also involved in a lot of consultancy work for several exploration and mining projects in Sierra Leone, especially alluvial and hard rock diamond and gold deposits

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Steve Lloyd

Chief Executive Officer

About Steve Lloyd

Steven Lloyd has worked in leadership roles in multiple locations in several countries all over North America, Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa and prior to Sierramin Bauxite, he was in a key operations leadership role working on a $64 billion dollar project to produce 1 million barrels per day crude oil production. With over 34 years in the Mining, Oil and Gas, Engineering and Construction sectors, Steven brings significant expe­rience in the operations field from project conception through execution to completion. Managing operations deliverables, mapping out plans for the safe and seamless start-up of projects he is responsible for, he ensures that Conduct of Operations is clearly defined and always followed through to implement safe and cost-effective start-ups and opera­tions.
Steven has managed multiple capital projects and has been instrumental identifying areas of OPEX reduction, eliminating low value projects works, implementing spare parts pro­ gram and increasing reliability, resulting in significant production increase. Proven leader developing Operations expenditure and framing future works by planning ahead for 1,3 & 5 years for better efficiency.
Steven’s Project and Operations experience has included assessments of pre-design work, review/consulting on procurement contract forms, and advising/analysis on project deliv­ery methods, constructability reviews, estimation of project-capital cost submittals, cata­logue cuts and means, bidding activities, project start-up and operations, project manage­ment, construction management, scheduling, value engineering, contract administration, procurement, quality assurance and errors and omissions, daily contractor project execu­tion management, strategic planning, technical issue evaluations, OPEX development and planning as well as Agile project development process.
He also has vast experience in management of HAZOP, PHA, Reliability bad actor investi­gations, incident investigation and lessons learned implementation to reduce and elimi­nate project and operational risks. Steven has been involved in multiple environmental re­mediation projects and takes health, safety and environmental sustainability seriously.

Pavel Gonchar

Construction Director

About Pavel Gonchar

Pavel Gonchar has been involved with Construction projects as an advisory leader and with several senior management Construction Project roles under his belt. His responsibili­ties have included leading complex Construction and Infrastructure projects from initiation all through to execution, monitoring and controlling stages, all the way to project comple­tion; always under budget, on time and without compromising quality, meeting Customer expectations. He has extensive experience in Project innovative risk management systems on Projects across several countries and he has been able to efficiently and effectively identify and relate relevant technical issues to complete solutions using engineering princi­ples selected by counsel, thus avoiding scope creep which then facilitates project develop­ment using appropriate courses of action.
Pavel has led numerous international projects to success over the last 20 years working with Project owners and contractors and providing services such as plant operations, proj­ect management, construction management, process design, environmental and safety engineering, regulatory compliance administration, rule negotiation and testimony as well as consulting and HAZOP chairmanship.
He has extensive experience throughout all phases of Mine Construction development, Project Commerce with extensive experience drafting and negotiating numerous types of contracts and financial instruments. Pavel's engagement experience has included assess­ments of pre-design work, review/consulting on procurement contract forms, and advis­ing/analysis on project delivery methods, constructability reviews, estimation of proj­ect-capital cost submittals, catalog cuts and means, bidding activities, project start-up and operations, project management, construction management, scheduling, value engineer­ing, contract administration, procurement, quality assurance and errors and omissions.
He has also performed ISO 9000 and other audits, strategic planning, technical issue eval­uations and forensic engineering. In the risk management area, his experience includes project governance reviews, claims prevention, project risk assessment, project risk man­agement training/audits and the development of corporation-wide risk management pro­grams for multi-national corporations and public and private entities. His experience in project analysis and audits spans many countries, several industries and total installed cost values, with overall project values exceeding $500 million USD.

Stewart Douglas

Finance & Strategic Planning Director

About Stewart Douglas

Stewart has always had a passion for Finance, Economics, received a Canadian Securities Course and occupied various senior management positions across Western Canada, the last being with one of the top retailers in the world and was utilized as a leader in guiding teams to reach new levels of success and being noted for consistently building teams that exceeded set targets and objectives, increasing Clients base and reducing shrink and ex­penditure. Throughout his career, he has been involved in ensuring optimum performance at the highest levels, developing a number of core skills that include but not limited to the following: Business Development, Negotiation, Mergers and Acquisition, Asset Manage­ment, Commercial Strategy Development and Execution, Project Economics, Project Man­agement, Business Planning, Profit & Loss Responsibility, Investment Appraisals and Re­ source Allocation, as well as Leadership/Communication, Capital Raising and Project Fi­nance, Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances Formation, Supply Chain Management, Busi­ness Planning, Corporate Governance and Organizational Behaviour.
Stewart has also been involved with Divestitures, Portfolio rationalization of company assets, Negotiating divestments and acquisitions of assets that provide complementary fit to existing portfolio, Negotiation of Alternative Funding for Asset Development and has maintained a live outlook of the Intrinsic Business Value of various portfolio groupings. Worked directly with other Senior Management team members and relevant staff on Proj­ect planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control, Studies teams, Operations, Tax Advisory, Legal and Finance advisor to appropriately frame opportunities and assure value creation throughout development cycle.
Coordinated several teams that provided on dedicated basis, frontline economic analyses to portfolio of development opportunities/projects through various decision gates/re­views, through to final Investment Decision.
He has vast knowledge, experience and expertise in Investment Proposals, divestment economics to support/facilitate deals' decision-making, carried out periodic economics evaluation and consolidation of all business plan submissions in respect of development studies, delivered staff competency development, coaching of regional economics skill pool and coordinated the Economics IT systems and Tool sets ensuring projects met scheduled timelines, were under budget without compromising HSE requirements or compromising quality standards by any means.

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Brimah A. Conteh

General Manager

About Brimah A. Conteh

Mr. Conteh is currently a General Manager for Sierramin Bauxite (SL) Ltd. He started as project manager in 2014 and became the technical director and Chief Operations Officer in 2017 after working with several poverseas based consulting firms on the project. For the past 7 years he has been working on the bauxite project with SRK Consulting (UK) and Mineral In­formation and Development Centre (MIDC; India). He fully participated in the development of several exploration and beneficiation protocols for a low/medium grade bauxite deposit to achieve a high marketable grade at reasonable recoveries. With his Mechanical engineer­ing background, he also participated in the development and assessment of two trial ben­eficiation plants for the same bauxite deposit.
Mr. Conteh is specialized in computer Aided Design, Mine Survey/planning and exploration resource assessment. He has a wealth of experience spanning over 23years in the mining industry. He worked as Mine Surveyor on the Koidu Kimberlite Project (2002-2006) where he rose to the rank of Chief Surveyor and Mine Planning Engineer; (Koidu Holdings (S.A)). He also served as Mining and Exploration Planning Engineer for SLDC -Kono (2006-2008) and later Surveying, Planning and GIS Expert, and Geological Advisor for Target Resource Expert -TME (2008-2009); all in alluvial Diamond and Gold Operations. He has also worked for Avivit Minerals Resources Ltd. Sierra Leone (2009-2011) and Milestone Mining Company as Mining and Exploration Planning Manager respectively. From 2011 - 2013 he worked as project Manager in Universal Gold Mining and Exploration Monitoring 3 different exploration project licenses in Sierra Leone.
Mr. Conteh has also involved in a lot of consultancy work for several exploration and mining projects in Sierra Leone, especially alluvial and hard rock diamond and gold deposits

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Sheku Kallon

Geology Manager

About Sheku Kallon

A commercially driven geologist and sample processing analyst with a solid management background, and connections, within the minerals and mining sector across the mano River union. Sheku has got over 10 years of experience working in post-conflict Sierra Leone and Liberia planning geology projects, gathering and analyzing geological data, and studying the earth's crust and various materials. Sheku has extensive knowledge of bauxite geology and mineralogy along with the Kasila belts in Sierra Leone, he also under­stands how the high silica bauxite in Port Loko can be upgraded through benefici­ation to meet off-takers and low-temperature refineries specifications.
Proven ability to screen, rank, and prioritize exploration targets for investment. Experience in dealing with government systems and officials to achieve desired commercial out­ comes. Sheku is amongst several other Sierra Leonean professionals identified by Sier­ramin Bauxite for further career development to enhance him for his future leading role. Sheku has vast experience of the heterogeneity, density, and nature of the Port Loko baux­ite; an experience that places him in the position to meet operational demand and over­ come associated exploration, mining, and metallurgical challenges.
Plan exploration and development drilling, conduct metallurgical test work, ensure Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QAQC) measures are always adhered to. Supported SRK and other external consultancies to prepare mineral resource estimates as well as other technical reports. Undertaken a training program on mineral resources management, min­eral rights management, economic geology conducted at Jiangxi College of Foreign Studies, Nanchang-China. A Strategic thinker with a pragmatic way of translating plans into effective action, Experience with various geological techniques like mining, explora­tion, sample preparation and analysis, boring and numerical modeling, metallurgical test work, Program design, management, monitoring and evaluation, Risk assessments, financ­ing and budgeting, Familiar with environmental regulations, Experienced Trainer and Facil­itator.
Sheku enjoys a cordial relationship with the project community and has been a volunteer teacher helping school children and pupils to understand mathematics and other science subjects. In addition to this, he has mentored over 30 Lab-technicians and attendants on sampling and processing techniques.

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