About EcoVentures

EcoVentures is the Middle East’s premier emissions reduction firm. Based in the United Arab Emirates, we help companies across the Middle East and North Africa reduce their environmental impact by becoming Carbon Neutral, offsetting their emissions, and replacing their use of fossil fuels.

EcoVentures delivers sound consultancy, advisory and management services to public and private sector organizations in the Middle East and North Africa region, using global best practices and meeting internationally recognised standards.

We specialize in the following areas:

Emissions Reduction Advisory   
Carbon Finance
Alternative Fuels      
Green Building Advisory

Our clients include Jumeirah Group, Dubai Holding, Emirates Foundation, The World Future Energy Summit, and Enviromena Power Systems.

As a for-profit business, we generate commercial benefits and enhance brand value by reducing our clients’ environmental impact. We help answer for our clients the following questions:

• Do you know what your impact on the environment is and how to measure and manage it for top-line, bottom-line, brand and corporate reputation benefits?

• Do you understand how changes in environmental regulation will affect your costs and operating margins?

• Do your business processes integrate environmental risk into core strategies?

• Would you know how to react if you were held responsible for the environmental impact associated with the use of your products or services by your customer?

• Do you have the strategies to share the inevitable costs of environmental change with your supply chain partners and customers?

• Do you know how to derive commercial and brand value from following business processes that reduce your environmental impact?

EcoVentures partners with leading global environmental consultancies, service providers and agencies to bring together strong, innovative solutions that are adapted to meet the needs of local markets while still maintaining compliance with global certification and audit standards. We are a Middle East partner of The CarbonNeutral Company, the worldwide pioneer in the provision of carbon management services, and the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Management (“ECCM”), which offers a depth of experience in emissions assessment, carbon sequestration and carbon management systems as well as the strategic and policy expertise on climate change. 
 
For more information about how EcoVentures can provide value to your organization, contact:

EcoVentures FZ LLC

Office 332             Tel: +971 (4) 390 1691
Building 10            Fax: +971 (4) 390 4557
Dubai Media City   Email:  info@ecoventures.ae
 

The EcoVentures Team:

Chairman -- Mr. Khamis Juma Bu Amim — Director
Since 2007, Mr. Khamis has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Regional Clean Sea Organization (RECSO), organizer of the Offshore Arabia conference. Previously, Mr. Bu Amim was with Conoco and ConocoPhillips for 25 years in various management positions including Vice President of Dubai Petroleum Company (2002-2007).  Mr. Bu Amim has also served in the UAE as the Secretary General of the UAE Oil and Gas Human Resources Group; at Dubai Petroleum as Advisor to the Gulf Career Development Forum; Secretary General of the Dubai Government Oil Spill Task Force and the Crises Management Team of Dubai and the Region; and Senior MENA Region Advisor for Global Energy.

Managing Director – Mr. Shezan Amiji
Mr. Amiji is the Founder and Managing Director of EcoVentures. In this capacity he is responsible for spearheading the establishment and growth of the business. Prior to founding EcoVentures, Mr. Amiji founded and operated 7DAYS newspaper in the UAE, worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York, and at Standard Chartered in Singapore. Mr. Amiji holds a Masters (Oxon) from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Director – Mr. Armen Vartanian
Mr. Vartanian brings to EcoVentures significant expertise on a range of environmental advisory areas as well as experience in venture capital. Prior to joining EcoVentures, Mr. Vartanian was a Vice President with Manara Capital in Beirut, an Associate with Asia West Funds in Connecticut, and the founder of two technology companies, Office.com and Service-Planet.com. Mr. Vartanian holds a BS in civil engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University.

Emissions Reductions Specialist – Karan Yadav
Mr. Yadav brings to EcoVentures years of experience managing manufacturing operations in the US and China, which combined with emissions reductions training, makes him particularly knowledgeable and practiced in helping companies reduce their emissions. Further, Mr. Yadav has several years of experience in media and advertising in Dubai. He uses this to help clients effectively market and communicate their emissions reductions activities. Mr. Yadav holds a BBA from the American University in Dubai.

Business Development Manager – Marina Anic
Ms. Anic develops client relationships and accounts, and also manages project-based marketing activities. Ms. Anic holds a BBA in marketing from American University in Dubai (AUD) and is currently pursuing an MBA in marketing from AUD.

Analyst – Ian Kershaw
Mr. Kershaw brings work experience from financial services, environmental entrepreneurship, and government to his current work as an Analyst at EcoVentures. He holds a BA from Tufts University in Economics (summa cum laude) and is also an alumnus of Oxford University.

Executive Assistant – Rita Rizk

Advisors
Jamie Phares
Ms. Phares has five years of marketing experience with Johnson & Johnson Medical in Dubai and General Mills in Minnesota, where she marketed brands such as Cheerios Cereal. She also has experience in economic consulting and entrepreneurship. Jamie holds a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance and marketing from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Amir Shahran
Mr. Shahran has over five years of experience as a project manager for industrial and process plants in the energy sector with specific experience in managing the implementation of energy efficiency upgrades in a variety of installations around the world. Mr. Shahran has overseen an energy efficiency study leading to implementation of a waste-heat recovery system at a refinery in Ecuador; led a project to finance and install selective catalysts at an Eastern European fertilizer manufacturer utilizing cash flows from the advance sale of certified carbon reductions; managed a project in 2005 for the construction of an extensive desalination plant system in Equatorial Guinea; and gained considerable experience in upgrades of power plants and modernization of control systems, primarily in Eastern Europe. Mr. Shahran holds a Masters Degree in Chemistry from University College, London.

Partners
The Carbon Neutral Company
ICF International
RSK Group
Green Technologies
Enpark