1. COMPANY
1.1 OVERVIEW
Kaizen Advisory engages in diverse projects both on its own account and for clients excelling in providing business facilitation and consultancy services, in areas and regions that would generally prove challenging to mainstream consultancies.
The company was founded to take advantage of the opportunities that could arise from the consolidation of strong personal connections in Africa and South America, with the background in minerals mining, solar technologies and security of the founding shareholders. On this basis the network of carefully selected influential advisors grew quickly.
We have recently been proposed for the appointment of special advisors in the fields of mining and solar energy for the countries of Central Africa and Cameroon. The appointment is pending final governmental ratification but will effectively place the company as the official liaison and intermediary for any foreign company wishing to invest or explore opportunities in these two mineral rich countries.
We now have a wide network of high profile advisers and consultants located across the world, with which we assist clients confront their complex business issues and provide them the access and intelligence required to enable them to enter unfamiliar territories and manage risks that might arise from such unanticipated conditions. We have also proved to be a valuable and resourceful joint venture partner for projects in such regions as South America and Africa, where our network and resources are historically strong.
1.2 GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT
Our carefully chosen network of employees and operatives allows us to focus on regions or countries that are generally much harder to access. Successfully concluding business in many of these countries in Asia, South America and Africa requires both a good understanding of how business is conducted as well as having the local contacts capable of expediting matters.
1.3 OFFICES
The company is registered as a limited liability company in Cyprus and has two head offices, one in Nicosia and one in Paris. The company intends to purchase in Cyprus around 6-7 plots of land (aprox 500sqm each plot) in order to build a bespoke fully secure headquarters for 30-50 staff which will also include training facilities.
We are also currently in the early stages of opening either registered offices or normal satellite offices in the world where a local presence is pre-requisite.
1.4 MANAGEMENT & ADVISORY BOARD
The remit of the current directors and management is to continue the company’s current projects and operations, to guide the company through the first stage of funding and to identify and attract consultants and staff with the required qualifications and experience to progress the company’s growth and regional influence. The current management team comprises the following people.

The advisory board includes a selection of well connected politicians, civil servants, businessmen, scientists and academics. We are obliged to honour their privacy and as such cannot provide written record.


2. DIVISIONS

2.1 SECURITY & INTELLIGENCE
With extensive experience in security and training our team has been involved in a number of missions in Africa and South America and can offer consultancy for the following:

• Security routines, training, planning and implementation
• Training programs and courses for security managers, security officers
• Bodyguards & special security units
• Preparation of security manpower profile
• Setup & management of special security missions
• VIP protection services
• Maritime and air traffic, sites and facilities protection
• Dog Training
• Contractors
• Demining
• Intelligence services
• Contractors

Research and Intelligence Advisory
We offer RIA services that specialise in analysing commercial risk focusing on the politics, ideology and political personalities that would impact your decision making process.

Business Facilitation
For companies seeking to invest in emerging markets, we can provide the specific intelligence required to make informed decisions, including any operational and logistical support necessary for market development within the country.


Background Screening
Our background screening services can help identify issues of concern and eliminate doubt about the integrity of prospective investors, partners and vendors.

Risk Assessment & Due Diligence
We offer risk management audits to ensure that information critical to business success in hostile environments is not negated. Many corporations are increasingly seeking business opportunities in less well understood emerging markets, obliging them to do business in cultures they know little about. Our corporate due diligence professionals provide high quality background reports on both companies and individuals of interest.

Security & Technology Consulting
We provide technical expertise and audits for the design and operation of security and alarm systems, evacuation plans and procedures.

Security Operations & Training
Our professional security experts are all sourced from the most prestigious of elite military special forces, central intelligence services, and police units, and specialize in the training of security personnel for every type of security and emergency contingency. We can offer services to government and private law enforcement agencies, as well as private enterprises in such fields including:
• Air security
• Close protection bodyguards
• Demining
• Contractors
• Counter intelligence
• Surveillance

Intelligence and Crisis management
The main functions of our intelligence and crisis management services centre on surveillance, strategic intelligence, training and counsel.

Observation, surveillance, environment analyses
• Strategic observation (surveillance)
• Net alert and website/social network analysis
• Geo-economical, geo-political, geo-strategic and socio-economical studies

Economic and strategic intelligence offensive
• Identification and recruitment of personalized profiles
• Business investigations
• Counter interference
• Operating perception management and lobbying
• Initial assessment of fields of action

Training and counsel
• Monitoring the setting up of observation (surveillance) and economic intelligence cells
• Tactical and operational Intelligence Unit training
• Sensitization seminars on the workings of economic intelligence
• Media-training seminars
• Setting up an intelligence support cell
• Organizing and supervising information crisis simulations


Site and Facilities Protection
By including qualified security and protection professionals in the earliest phases of site or facility construction, costly modifications to already existing sites or facilities can be avoided. Our security professionals work in close collaboration with experienced engineers and technicians to prepare in-depth analysis of plans and procedures for securing sites and facilities. A far-reaching surveillance and protection program is then adopted and implemented by especially trained security staff.

Military equipment and Arms for Security Units
Our partners assist anti-terror units and army facilities in selecting mission-critical equipment, working closely with suppliers and manufacturers in different countries.


2.2 COMMODITIES & MINING
The team specialises in trading ores, precious metals, gems and petrochemicals and also includes a Gemologist and Geologist that has extensive experience in African geology and mining. We can handle every element involved in the sourcing and trading of crude oil, petroleum products, renewable energies, metals and ores for industrial consumers across the world.

Our logistics team has experience in moving materials in bulk, break bulk and containers, and are experienced in the transport of materials packed in supersacks, bags and drums. We can arrange to coordinate and supervise the delivery of the goods by ship, truck or rail.

We primarily source directly from reliable miners across the world and sell to major trading firms or directly to mills in China with whom we have good relations. With many of the mines direct personal negotiations are required to obtain the product at a good price and timely delivery and as such regular travel to the various mines is necessary in order to maintain good relationships.

As an additional service we can provide dedicated and cost effective shipping arrangements and help in negotiating the best competitive freight rates where we sell on FOB load port basis.

2.2.1 MINERALS & OTHER COMMODITIES TRADED
• Gold powder (Guinea, Mali, Central Africa)
• Gold Ore and Gold Concentrate (USA, Mexico)
• Diamonds (Cameroon, Guinea, Central Africa)
• Chromite (Albania, Iran, Oman)
• Iron Ore (Iran, Russia, Mali, Guinea)
• Manganese Ore (Oman)
• Granite & Marble (Laos, Iran)
• Petrochemicals (Worldwide)
• Sugar (Brazil)

2.3 RENEWABLE ENERGY
Our High Efficiency Renewable Energy team includes a respected engineer and inventor with a specialised knowledge in the solar field. Our expertise also includes Wind and Sea technologies.

2.3.1 SOLAR ASSESSMENT SERVICES
General – We work closely with clients or project partners to help them determine if and how a PV solution might fit into their site, building, budget, and environmental goals.

Site Evaluation – After initial discussions we visit to the site with the primary task of conducting an assessment for the feasibility, installation requirements, and preliminary costs of installing a PV system. The site visit involves discussions regarding accessing the roof, reviewing possible locations and configurations for the PV modules, and ensuring there is ample space and an acceptable physical location for the inverter, (and batteries, if specified), electrical components, and other balance of system (BOS) components. Energy efficiency and conservation aspects of the site and building are weighted strongly and are an integral part of the assessment.

System Evaluation – Included are recommendations on manufacturers’ products along with assistance in selecting and sizing a total system that meets the client’s budget, fits available roof space, and provides environmentally clean power.

Financial & Environmental Evaluation – Various financial aspects, depending on the scope of the assessment, such as payback, return on investment, and internal rate of return are reviewed. A range of environmental benefits, such as reductions in carbon footprint and energy budgets can be considered and calculated.

Project Management – As a separate service, project management and liaison with chosen installer and the utility service provider can be arranged.

2.3.2 SOLAR CONSULTING SERVICES
a) Solar Site Assessment
• Solar Electric (PV)
• Domestic hot water (DHW)
• Small-scale wind
• Energy efficiency/conservation
• Financial analysis
• Bid analysis
• Project management

b) Technical Documentation

c) Training and Consultation
• Site assessment
• PV design
• PV system analysis
• Financial analysis
• Energy efficiency/conservation
• Bid analysis
• Project management


2.4 VERTICAL WIND TURBINES
A Polish/Ukranian joint venture startup which is currently looking for venture capital has developed a new highly efficient Vertical Wind Turbine that is much more efficient that the standard propeller wind turbines.

Based on theoretical research and practical tests (in wind tunnels and during prototypes testing), the institute concluded that a wind farm assembled from their VWT’s can produce 8 times more electrical energy than the same wind farm equipped with standard propeller based WTs.

• Coefficient of transformation of wind energy is ~2 times higher
• Does not require orientation towards direction of wind
• Does not react to pulsation in wind speed – has properties similar to flywheel
• VWT can have two levels (two-tier design)
• Lower aerodynamic and mechanical noise levels
• Air flow (wind speed) behind the WT restores ~ 2,2 times quicker
• Support tower are of the tripod design, which allows for smaller and simpler foundation
• Easier maintenance and operation
• Can produce single-level VWTs with 2, 3, 4 or 5 blades or two-tier VWTs with 6 or 8 blades
• Design allows for production of entire range of WTs from standard blades and towers, with power output for example from 10 kW to 50 kW, or from 1 MW to 4 MW

3. BESPOKE CONSULTANCY
Through our close business partners and advisory board we can offer consultancy in the following industries.

3.1 IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Our IT & Telecoms teams include a number of seasoned consultants with experience of working in West Africa and also in South and Central America, which can offer consulting services including IT, data security, network design, bill auditing systems as well as services such as business VoIP, MPLS, and SIP Trunking. For each project we assemble special project teams that will engineer a specific solution for the customer. We can develop a complete turnkey system, including equipment supply and configuration for your specific networking environment. We can also expand on applications for your existing network services. We can also supply the necessary support for networking applications from remote locations, such as aboard a vessel at sea or in a secluded area where traditional landline services either unreliable/don’t exist or are not secure enough.

Infrastructure and Systems
Guidance in implementing and maintaining the IT infrastructure and systems, and ensuring that service levels are kept up to agreed standards.

Software and Application Solutions
Assistance to decide what software best serves your needs, off-the-shelf or custom made.

Process Management
Validation of IT policies and procedures that ensure data security and integrity.

Security and Disaster Recovery
Recommendations for mitigating environmental threats, technology failure, intrusions, and human error.
• System intrusion and firewalls
• Storage and remote backup
• Health checks and security audits
• Disaster recovery

Telecom
• VOIP implementations.
• Satellite communications
• IP Based MPLS network design and setup
• Prepaid phone card turnkey operations.
• Internet Hotspot turnkey operations.
• WiFi implementations.
• Rural telephony exchanges.
• Equipment purchase and deployment.
• International private line deployments.


3.2 AVIATION & TRANSPORT
The aviation team has been involved in both setting up and managing airline companies in the UAE, Middle East and Africa.

Our team has a broad range of experience and is well geared towards helping start-up airlines that might require advise on training, recruitment, creation and maintenance of manuals, preparation for regulatory audits. Our team can also undertake audits of existing operations to ensure regulatory compliance to rules and practices. Our consultants have many years of experience in regulatory audits across a wide range of airlines in all parts of the world, and we can also provide training in audit preparation for staff.

Our aviation consultancy services also cover technical and engine management, as well as asset valuations and our qualified staff have the technical and commercial expertise to provide a complete support including aviation parts and materials, sourcing and supply.

The solutions are ideally suited to meet the DMS and SMS needs of small to medium sized companies in the aviation industry, who often lack the necessary resources required to build and sustain an effective document management system themselves. The DMS we offer integrates seamlessly with the Class 1 EFB for a complete solution to manual creation and maintenance. The manuals can either be hosted on our own servers or can be integrated with those of the client. The Class 1 EFB integrates with the DMS software to provide flight crews with an electronic manual set. This dramatically reduces the number of paper manuals that need to be carried.

• DMS
• Safety Management Systems (Global SMS Certificate)
• IT solutions
• Asset valuations
• Asset sourcing
• Asset inspection
• Fleet planning
• Reservations and distribution system requirements
• Safety and Security Evaluation
• Regulatory Audit Preparation
• Flight Crew Training