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Steve Vaux CV

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Personal data

Year of Birth	TAA Member No	Title	Forenames:	Surname:
1953		Mr	Steve	Vaux

Record of posts and assignments

Year	Job Title	Organisation	Country	Responsibilities
2011	Owner & Principal Consultant	Consult S Vaux	UK based but global	Independent Plantation agriculture, biofuel and biomass advisor
2010 - 2011	Agricultural Director and Acting COO	Sustainable Agroenergy plc	UK plus heavy involvement in Cambodia	Direction of Agricultural policy on Biofuel projects, mainly in Cambodia, but with interests in Philippines and Senegal
2010	Agricultural & Biomass consultant	Rural Energy Ltd	UK	Business Development – Biomass heating systems
2010	Agricultural & Biomass consultant	Clenergen Corporation	UK, India, Ghana, Guyana	Plantation management advisor to Biomass to Power company
2008 - 2010	Bus’ Development Manager	Biojoule Ltd & Biojoule LLP	UK based but global	Business Development – Biomass pelleting
2005 - 2008	Projects Manager	Eden Research PLC	UK based but international	Co-ordinating development of low toxicity crop protection products
2004 - 2005	Environment Officer	Environment Agency	UK	Environmental regulation (Waste & Water)
1997 - 2003	Agriculture Manager	Ramu Sugar Ltd (now part of NBPOL)	Papua New Guinea	i/c all agricultural operations for a 23,000 ha Sugar, Oil Palm & Cattle Co
1992 - 1997	Agricultural Manager	Kinyara Sugar Works Ltd (Now part of the Rai group)	Uganda	i/c development of 7500 has of sugar grown on an estate & by outgrowers
1987 - 1992	Projects Controller	Booker Tate Ltd	UK based but global	Project backup in Congo Ghana Tanzania Zambia Madagascar Swaziland
1991	Team leader	Oil Palm project review	Nigeria	Assessment of potential OP nr Enugu
1990	Interim CEO	Ngombezi Sisal Project	Tanzania	3 mths managing 25Kha sisal project
1990	Business plan editor	Ngombezi Sisal Project	Tanzania	L/T plan for 25Kha KfW sisal project
1989	Team leader	Congo project review	P R Congo	Re-scoping review for OP Project
1986/7	Packhouse Manager	Wyvern Farms Services Ltd	UK	Managing a potato marketing operation
1983/5	Divisional Manager	Solomon Is Plantations Ltd	Solomon Is	Managing 2000 ha Oil Palm estate
1982	Agronomist	Higaturu Oil Palms Ltd	PNG	Agronomic activities 10,000 ha OP estate
1979	Survey Assistant	Sri Lanka Rubber Plan	Sri Lanka & UK	Inventory Survey of S/L rubber industry
1977/9	Pest Control Mgr	IYSIS Tunzini Citrus estate	Swaziland	P & D control 600 ha citrus estate
1976/7	Mgt Trainee	Commonwealth Development Corporation	UK & Malaysia	Junior manager learning estate practice on Oil Palm, Cocoa & Rubber estates

Skills, expertise and qualifications


Principal Discipline	Agro-Industry
Subsidiary fields	Agroforestry, Marketing, Oil Palm, Plantation/Estate Management, Project Management, Project Preparation/Appraisal, Sugarcane, Tree Crops.
Higher education	BSc Horticultural Science (Reading University) 1976, also studied for ACCA PG Cert in Financial Management & PG Dip in Management (University of Leicester)
Countries worked in	Congo (Brazzaville), Greece, India, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Solomon Is, Tanzania, Uganda, UK
Languages	French
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