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About Us

About Us

Kevin Godlington

Former Special Forces soldier and Foreign Office Africa specialist, advisor to 2 prime ministers, co-founder of national charity, Tickets for Troops -turned entrepreneur.

Kev took on the conflict Asian palm oil industry and companies who refused to pay fairly for sustainable oils and fats -to prove that sustainable and traceable palm oil to empower smallholders in Africa could be done! And that done properly a palm tree is 5 times more sustainably productive than all other oil crops, and that the dairy, soya and other industries were intentionally trying to ‘cancel’ palm oil for reasons other than deforestation.

Today he runs the largest co-op of palm oil, organic, RSPO, fair trade, ROC farmers in the world and supplies 30% of the worlds organic palm oil to food supply chains globally.

Deeply unsettled by the carbon markets behaviour, stealing from sovereign governments, double counting, and blocking small farmers. He’s back for a second campaign!

A self-made serial entrepreneur with £100m+ of assets under founded management, Kev is the indomitable founder of Carbon Done Right with Neil.

Neil Passmore

Neil is a decorated attack helicopter pilot (A real pilot unlike Kev who is civilian qualified, which doesn’t really count) he read Biology at Oxford and is deeply nerdy at heart who loves trees

He then went on to a distinguished career at JP Morgan doing banky type things with banky type people.

He is the CEO and co-founder of Hannam & Partners. He has worked for 20 years in natural resources corporate finance, advising on a broad spread of capital market and M&A transactions for clients including Xstrata, Savannah, Amira, Ophir and others.

He has raised over $30 billion in capital in more than 45 capital markets transactions in his career, as well as advising on several of the resource industry’s transformational mergers and acquisitions.

He is a Director of YPO’s London Chapter, and the Director of an agriculture company based in Guyana.

He is business partner with Kev and remarkably continues to finance him and his ridiculous ideas.

Meet Our Team

Our team is what makes us different we work shoulder to shoulder with smallholders and are driven by a passion to deliver results.

Extensive Experience in operations and marketing management. For the past 15 years, he has built up a wealth of key skills and experience, with expertise encompassing all areas of management.
Nuno da Silva
Group Operations Manager
PhD Fellow at University of Copenhagen. Focus on integration of earth observation techniques and Machine Learning/ deep learning (Al)
Maurice Mugabowindekwe
PhD, Remote Sensing Officer
Professional African CEO and Private Equity partner. Board member of Planting Naturals and Chairman of Goldtree Sierra Leone on behalf of Phatisa. Responsible for Rewilding operatior governance setup and management. 25 years African experience including Sierra Leone
Nieks Bezuidenhout
Director Planting Operations
Planning Manager for the Rewilding Company, specialized in Community mobilization and Demarcation. Have worked as a GIS Manager and served in the capacity of Plantation Manager of the Planting Naturals Group between 2015 to 2022.
Mohamed Mansaray
Planning Manager
Max is responsible for the Methodology technical development which is being developed alongside Maurice to integrate Machine Learning Deep Learning (Al) into our methodology
Max Gaber
Methodology PHD Officer
Idriss is an in-country expert on carbon development projects. He is currently the Carbon and Community Development Manager at Rewilding Company.
Idriss
Carbon Community Development Manager
Charlie Vincent, the operations manager for Rewilding Company. Trained, qualified and experienced forestry professional, specialized in the establishment and implementation of afforestation, Reforestation and Nature - based solutions projects in Sierra Leone
Charlie Vincent
Rewilding Operations Manager
17+ years of experience in Oil Palm, Pineapple, Rice and Forestry plantation development and management in West Africa.
Mohamed Kamara
Managing Director Planting Operations
Extensive Experience in operations and marketing management. For the past 15 years, he has built up a wealth of key skills and experience, with expertise encompassing all areas of management.
Lalith
Back end Developer
Prof Martin Brandt is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He and his world leading team have specialized in using deep learning to map trees and their biomass at national and continental scales, prioritising Africa. Martin has published more than 20 articles in Nature/Science journals and his work on mapping single trees has been selected as one of the top 10 discoveries world wide in 2020 by Nature.
Prof Martin Brandt
Chief Scientific Advisor