Board Chair

Mr. Alexander B. Cummings is a businessman, philanthropist and politician. He is the Founder & Chairman of Cummings Investments Holdings, Ltd., Founder of the Cummings Africa Foundation and Political Leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) in Liberia.

Alex has nearly four decades of experience working at international businesses, highlighted by an almost two-decade career at The Coca-Cola Company, covered stints in Africa, Europe, and the United States. Upon joining the company in 1997, he served as the Managing Director/Region Manager for Nigeria, where he demonstrated his ability to drive sales and foster significant growth of Coca-Cola’s business in Nigeria. Within a short period, he was promoted in 2001 to become President and Chief Operating Officer of the company’s Africa Group, responsible for operations in Africa, encompassing a total of 56 countries and territories across the continent.

After several years of achieving record sales and profit growth, Mr. Cummings was again promoted and named Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer of The Coca-Cola Company, the second-highest-ranking officer, and for nearly a decade was responsible for most of the company’s business functions across five groups and 200 countries globally with an operating budget of roughly $1 Billion and thousands of employees worldwide. Before his work at Coca-Cola, Mr. Cummings was Vice President of Finance for Pillsbury International, with financial responsibility for growing an over $1 billion international food business with operating companies in 16 countries. In this capacity, he was the youngest ever senior executive at the Pillsbury Company at the time and its most senior of African descent, rising through the ranks after joining as a low-ranking analyst.

He holds a BA in Finance and Economics from Northern Illinois University and an MBA in Finance from Clark-Atlanta University. He and his wife Teresa have been married for 40+ years. They have two children, Ayo and Boikai, and five grandchildren.

Board Vice Chair

Born in Libya and raised all over the world, Steve has spent his lifetime as an engaged and active global citizen with a focus on the African continent. Steve is the founder and CEO of Pan African Capital Group (PACG), an enterprising, nimble platform that makes direct investments in financial services companies, participates in private equity funds, and provides advisory services to a diverse array of African-focused clients across the globe. One of PACG’s initial investments was an infrastructure development firm in East Africa, and the firm has participated in various other major infrastructure transactions including renewable and emergency power generation projects, airport development, and oil and gas concessions. Steve has been at the forefront of discussions of how to leverage African capital to fill critical financing gaps across the continent. Prior to PACG, Steve was founder and Managing Director of Modern Africa Fund Managers, LLC, a US$105 million OPIC-sponsored fund for investment in middle-market companies across Africa. Starting his career at HSBC Equator Bank, Steve opened the East Africa office in Nairobi, Kenya where he managed relationships throughout East Africa and represented HSBC Equator Bank in Washington, DC. 

He graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1979 and received an MBA from Boston College. He now resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Molly, and their three grown children, all of whom share his affinity for the African continent. 

Chief Executive Officer

Throughout his 20-year career Jared has demonstrate an ability to build and maintain strong alliances while motivating international teams and driving projects to successful completion.

He holds a Master of Environmental Design from the University of Calgary and started his career in product development designing innovative products for Fortune 500 companies such as Unilever, Kellogg’s, Wal-Mart, and Target. His role developed into product management and in 2008 Jared began coordinating international teams for industrial scale projects in the alternative energy sector including coordinating a bid for a 26 MW biomass powered electrical generation project in Liberia.

Over the last 15 years Jared has worked in the renewable energy and agriculture sector developing new revenue generation opportunities for biomass feedstocks, handling public and government relations, and overseeing marketing initiatives for West Coast Reduction Ltd. one of the largest private organics recyclers in North America. 

President Operations

Martin Greenwood has a proven track record and leadership ability to build success out of African projects. With years of experience working with all types of construction, forestry equipment in the outfields within West, Central and Southern African countries, Northern Russia, and East Siberia, he enjoys the challenge and possesses a very strong aptitude for business planning, development, meeting production targets, KPI and budgeting/forecasting, operational management.

One of the original founders of Buchanan Renewable Energy, Martin has successfully started, operated and sold a rubberwood chipping operation in Liberia. Some of his experience includes: 

Chief Operating Officer: Bexin Group. 

COO IPA Forestry Angola, 

COO AS Group SL Ltd.,  

COO Russo Forest 

Operations Director: Aeternum Capitol 

Strategy and Finance

Mohammed is a hands-on investment professional with 13 years of success in investing in businesses across Africa and globally. Over the years, Mohammed has through thorough due diligence evaluations identified, invested and provided strategic guidance leading to successfully execution of business projects in the Agriculture, FMCG, Energy and Entertainment sectors in Africa and beyond.

Mohammed was a core member of the team that executed the ZAR4.8 billion acquisition of 100% shares by Milco and the delisting of Africa's largest dairy producer Clover Industries Limited from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. He was also a key member of the team, and worked on the financial analysis and due diligence resulting in the investment in 2018 in what was then only a small start-up, The Honey Pot Company, and helped manage and implement strategies leading to its fast growth and eventual sale in 2024 to Compass Diversified for $380 million.

Mohammed previously worked with SCG Chartered Accountants in Ghana, then responsible for doing the accounting services for 20+ companies of various sizes operating in the country.

His board experience includes serving on the boards Agri-Commercial Services Ghana Ltd, J-Palm Liberia Ltd and Liha Beauty, a UK based skincare business.

Mohammed holds a BSc. Business Administration degree from Ashesi University in Ghana.