PGBI brings together a team of highly experienced, qualified and globally respected individuals who each have decades of experience in project development and execution and have an unparalleled depth of knowledge in their respective disciplines, technology and business sector.
In addition to technical expertise, our people bring practical, first hand experience from having developed new processing and agricultural businesses across Africa, as well as operational experience from having operated and managed process plants.
Meet some of our key people…
Stephan Schutte
Managing Director
Stephan has extensive experience in business development projects where he has been responsible for overall project management, co-ordination and execution of business case development projects, pre-feasibility studies and bankable feasibility studies for sugar and ethanol projects in Africa, and of markets studies for ethanol and electrical power in Mali and Ghana.
Stephan’s experience extends to serving as project sponsor and project manager on business studies, project development studies, bankable feasibility studies, EPCM and EPC projects, Independent Engineer and Lender’s Technical Advisory services in the sugar, bio-fuels, biomass power and food and beverage sectors.
Alan Fraser
Technical Director
Alan has over 20 years’ experience in sugar, food and beverage and biomass related industries in Africa, the Middle East and South East Asia. He is a recognised sugar technologist and responsible for retaining PGBI’s position and an industry leading sugar engineering company.
His current responsibilities include managing PGBI’s technical function to stimulate the design team to deliver innovative solutions while still ensuring engineering best practices are followed.
Alan is actively involved in all design projects. He is the Senior Process Engineer for both conceptual and detailed engineering designs and installation projects. This has included projects in the sugar, ethanol, biomass and food and beverage sectors.
Anthony Alexander
Agriculture Lead
Ant Alexander is an Agronomist and Sugar Agricultural Business specialist. He has over 30 years’ experience in a variety of agronomic advisory and agricultural management roles in Southern Africa and abroad.
His experience includes Land acquisition, Agro-processing Company formation, EBA market access business and technical planning, development and project management for various large scale estate and outgrower farmer Cane sugar, power, biofuels and organic fertiliser producing businesses in Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania and other parts of Africa and Asia.
Sven Prigge
Project Management and Industrial Process Lead
Sven is a chemical process engineer with 28 years’ experience in the sugar, ethanol, renewable energy and general industries as a process specialist and project manager. His sugar industry experience includes extensive process designs for numerous mills across Africa.
He has also been Study Director for various feasibility studies in the agro-industrial sector. He has successfully managed several EPCM projects across the agro-industrial and general industrial sectors.
Mohammed Reza Laulloo
Specialist – Sugar Refining
Reza is a Chartered Chemical Engineer (UK), MSc in Chemical Engineering with 20+ years’ experience as expatriate in different countries, and 16 years in two major sugar factories in Mauritius with experience at management level.
He is globally recognised as a specialists in sugar, sugar refining and operations and his capability in leading technical due diligences, technical adjudication and all aspects of chemical and process control including commissioning of new and rehabilitated plants within all safety legislation. Reza has additionally vast experience in the management of refinery operations.
Mohammed Al Kannan
MENA Projects
Mohammed has 20+ years’ experience in strategy and project management, as well as business development. He has experience in developing projects in association with international companies for African Countries that include but not limited industrial projects, housing & community development projects, power generation and distribution such as the construction of a municipal waste to green energy plants as well as sugar mills, power plants, and urban community developments.