CONSULTING PARTNERS AND FACULTY MEMBERS
Goldpath Consultancy empowers individuals and communities through personalized support, employability training, and inclusive development programs.
Prince Ademola Olawole
Prince as fondly called is the Managing Consultant GoldPath Consulting Limited. With over 2 decades hands-on experience in his kitty, he brings his depth of Strategic managements and business supports services to bear in the corporate world.
He has a B.sc degree in Economics, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA), with specialization in Strategy Management, Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Risk Management, Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) in Data Science and Learning, and a Law Degree (in-view). He is an Artificial and Business Intelligence Enthusiasts. He leads a team of seasoned and skilled Human capital and Environmental Professionals with strong experience and relevant background across a broad range of medium, to provide innovative and industry-tailored Strategic business solutions and learning interventions across different sector.
As a Business Strategist, Demola has proficiencies in rendering strategic business services for business development, growth and sustainability. He has a niche for developing corporate culture by identifying corporate strength and leverage on core competence, creating a business edge for positioning and competitive advantage. He has also successfully organized trainings at different forum on Strategic Leadership & Good Governance, Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Policy Development, Implementation and Analysis, Project Managements, Pathway to Business Excellence Strategic Growth Approach, Data Analysis, Corporate Culture Developments and Exclusive Business Take-off Strategy to mention but a few. He brings on board a senior team with hands-onexperience in Human capital development. He bridges organizational learning gap & proffer strategic business solution for business development & sustainability.
His wealth of experience is vast, dynamic and realistic, as he devotes time to study and research the Global business terrains and available markets opportunities and its effects on Nigeria business environment and market growth.
PROF LUCIAN CHUKWU (CONSULTING PARTNER, NIGERIA)
He is an environmental consultant, Marine Scientist, UN and World Bank consultant on Environmental resources managements and Environmental Impact Assessment/ Social Impact Assessment. He has vast knowledge on Environmental issues, having handled major EIA/ SIA research and report; both on-field and off-field analysis. He is a consultant on Environment to many major Oil and Gas companies as well as on major project in Nigeria, notably, Brass LNG projects. He has attended major United Nation organized workshops on Environmental managements, researches, survey, environmental resources and many more. He is a sort after lead facilitator on major workshops on EIA & ESIA both within & outside the country. He is the current Director Due Diligence and Compliance University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos.
ADEBOWALE OMOTUNDE (CONSULTING PARTNER, NIGERIA)
Adebowale Omotunde, is an Alunmi of the Harvard Business School. He is the Principal Consultant of N’Able Global solutions Limited a strategy and innovation company. He is a British Standard Institute Certified Lead Auditor with vast working experience in the areas of Environment Quality Management Systems, Strategy & Innovation.
He holds a Harvard University certificate in strategy & innovation, Harvard Business School certificate in disruptive strategy and a training certificate in Leadership and communication with impact from INSEAD. He served for a few years as a faculty member of TENARIS Corporate University, where he lectured on a battery of business-critical subjects – Negotiation skills, advanced communications, people development, leading a performance driven enterprise and lastly strategy and systems Debo is a high net-worth Business Consultants with over Ten (15) years in providing consulting services across broad of sector.
He is a trainer of middle managers and senior executives on Quality and Environmental systems, Leadership, Effective communication/presentation, and Technical/business report writing. He is reputed for making his trainings very hands-on as he draws real life examples from his rich project management experience. He has been trained and has trained in quite a number of world-class conferences and workshops within and outside the continent.
DR STEPHEN CRUTE (CONSULTING PARTNER, UK)
Stephen combines his academic background with a pragmatic approach to environmental and sustainability issues. He has over 25 years of experience of environmental impact assessment, sustainability and ecology in a range of sectors with the last twelve years predominantly in oil and gas sector within the Middle East.
Stephen has considerable international experience working on master plans and EIA/SEA for master plans, including projects throughout the GCC States, the UK, Brazil, Ireland, Turkey, Iraq, Gibraltar, Cyprus and Pakistan.
Stephen is an experienced trainer and facilitator and has chaired and led many workshops including engineering pioneering and ENVID. He has developed and delivered training courses for EIA, Environmental Awareness and Ecology.
Fields of Competence
• Business management: Strategy development, business development, Financial responsibility, client development, staff employment
• Qualified ecologist with background in computer modeling
• Project Management
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Experience across a wide range of sectors
• Team building
• Delivery of training, workshops and facilitation
• ENVID Workshop Chairman
MULLER COETZEE (CONSULTING PARTNER, SOUTH AFRICA)
Muller has more than 30 years’ experience in Integrated Waste Management, Environmental Assessment and Management, Pollution Assessments, Coastal Management, Public Policy Development, Multi-stakeholder Group Facilitation, and Leadership/ Management Training. He has acted as project leader on a number of large scales, multi- disciplinary and complex projects in a diverse context. Muller has also been involved as a member of local and international teams in a number of projects on behalf of institutions such as the World Bank and the European Union and is often called upon to act as independent review consultant. He is a highly skilled Sustainable Management Consultant with particularly high-level skills in Environmental Assessment and facilitation of multi-stakeholder groups across diverse interests and cultures.
Specialties: Pollution and Waste Management, Environmental Assessment, Multi-stakeholder Group Facilitation, Conflict Management and Dispute Resolution, Integrated Coastal Management, Sustainable Development Policies and Strategies Training.
DR. SHAN RAJEGOPAL (CONSULTING PARTNER, UK & SINGAPORE)
Shan is an entrepreneur, trusted business advisor and one of the leading authorities on innovation, portfolio and execution management who believes that “There are more gold mined from the mind of the humans than from this earth” and with right leadership and decision-making one can change the destiny of a company. He is retained as an advisor for several companies including SMEs (small and medium enterprise) and Start-Ups. He works closely with global financiers in selecting projects and businesses to turning around their performance. Shan is a partner at To2percent Limited, UK He works with clients globally in both public and private sectors for over thirty years supporting executive of companies in converting their strategies into actions. Shan’s extensive engagements and research in Ideation, Portfolio investments, and Delivery management with Value Realization support him in working with companies to convert their strategies into actions and radically improve their performance.
He doesn’t like to be called a consultant or an academic, but rather a practitioner enabling companies to set up their own internal systems for strategy execution, change and performance improvement. He is also a much sought-after international speaker, inviting his audience to embark on a journey of discovery to uncover the most successful practices and the best ideas from the world’s leading global players.
Shan sits on the Development Advisory Board of Aberystwyth University (Wales) and he is also the Visiting Professor and Teaching Fellow at ASTON University where he is the programme director for MSc in Supply Chain Leadership and Management and run executive courses in strategy and project execution for the Engineering and Leadership Management programmes. He is the author of
“Project Portfolio Management: How to Innovate and Invest in Successful Projects”, “Project Portfolio Management: Leading the Corporate Vision”, “Sun Tzu and the Project Battleground: Creating Project Strategy from the Art of War” and “Strategic Supply Management: An Implementation Toolkit”.
Dr Shan’s Strategy, Portfolio and Benefits Framework is a globally accepted and Microsoft endorsed book.
COLUMN PRICE (CONSULTING PARTNER, UK)
Colum is the Managing Director of Top2% Ltd and has designed and delivered training for a variety of UK and international clients. He specializes in Leadership and Crisis execution. He is a highly respected leader who makes things happen in practice. Based on his life long experience he has converted his skills and knowledge into classroom trainings. He has developed, designed and delivered courses worldwide to prestigious corporations. Some of these include the London Stock Exchange, G4S, UK train operating companies, Dubai Metro, Royal Brunei Police Service and other Brunei Government departments.
A former Firearms Silver, Colum has been in command at UK terror attacks including 7/7 and other major incidents. As a former match commander at both Chelsea and Fulham football clubs, Colum has over 10 years Public Order experience. This level of exposure brings invaluable experience of high-risk command to the classroom experience. In addition, Colum designed and executed crisis action for Wakefield Council.
Colum only designs and delivers training that adds to the operational capability of his clients. He combines this with accreditation from high profile academic institutes to ensure lifelong learning and increased value. Colum’s ethos is: ‘Only the best trainers and training will do’. Top2% boasts membership of the World Institute for Nuclear Security and the UN global marketplace.
JIKU PRIYANK SRIVASTAVA (M.sc., University of Oklahoma) CONSULTING PARTNER)
Jiku is a Domain Data Scientist with 15+ years’ experience in oil & gas industry. Five years of experience in data acquisition and data management. Leading a team of geoscientists & engineers on application of data analytics in unconventional reservoirs (Shale gas –Marcellus and Coal bed methane – 200+ wells). Responsible for development of in-house prototype for reservoir surveillance dashboard (Virtual metering) for deepwater producing asset using python. Currently, working in Center of Excellence (COE) Team for application of data analytics in upstream sector.
He is a Lead Author of International research papers on application of data analytics in oil and gas industry. Experience at Teaching Data Analytics as Domain expert in Petroleum Engineering department of University of Oklahoma, Pennsylvania State University and University of Houston. Leading team for In-house E&P training in data science as Lead domain data scientist
Skills Languages: SQL, Python, R, Matlab Tools: Oracle Developer, MySQL, Postgres, Tableau, Power BI, Git, Apache Airflow Analytics: Statistical Analysis, Supervised &Unsupervised Learning, NLP, Forecasting Data Science Certification: Dataiku, Advanced Python – School of AI, Bangalore; PowerBI
ZORAN MARINKOVIC (CONSULTING PARTNER, UAE)
Zoran is the Managing Partner at Blue Marin Management Consultancies in Dubai, a company he founded to serve multinational companies in the area of Business Development and Administration.
Zoran gained corporate finance experience with various financial and healthcare multinational organizations in Europe and the Middle East. As part of strategic planning teams at the American Express Cartes France in Paris and GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare Dubai, he has developed a broad business perspective that enables him to understand the challenges of corporate clients within the Middle East Region. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Paris West University Nanterre La Defense, France, as well as a bilingual, France and English, MBA specializing in international business from Paris Graduated School Management.
He builds his business relationship focusing on quality, commitment and partnerships. He has been creating a strong business network in Dubai, Middle East, North America and Europe thanks to his enthusiasm and his communication skills; fluent in French, English and a bit of Spanish. He has been a lecturer at Paris Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi on Business Optimization. He is also certified Six Sigma Green Belt from American Express EMEA HQ based in London.
Field of Competence
• Machine Learning in Business
• Data Science, Natural Language and Analytics
• Artificial Intelligence in Business and Society
• Computer modelling, Pattern Learning and Team Building.
OLANREWAJU AKINFALA (CONSULTING PARTNER, NIGERIA)
Lanre graduated with a First Class in B,Sc in Geography and Planning, and holds a Master’s Degree with specialization in Transportation Planning and Management. He is currently a PhD candidate working on Traffic Signal Delay Modeling and Optimization. He has been involved in transportation projects in various sectors for over 10 years.
Lanre is known for his very strong problem-solving skills, implementation and delivery of novel projects and products, project management and strong management skills