REGEN AFRICA RESOURCES
RAR is a business and project development agency set up to deliver consultancy services and projects in Africa. It works with key government bodies, local agencies and businesses in Africa, UK and globally.
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It develops partnerships to maximise the use of local resources and people to provide access to finance and knowhow.
Its partners have extensive experience in resource exploration, the establishment of service based facilities and product registration and distribution.
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RAR has a wide range of partnerships with key experts and financiers in Africa and globally.
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OUR PEOPLE
Andrew Eweka
CEO
Andrew Eweka has over 10 years experience in the upstream and downstream sectors of Nigerian oil and gas. He is the owner of 1st Man Global, the co-founder of Wazima Health and has assisted a number of international companies to move to Nigeria. He is on the Forbes list of major businessmen and has extensive links at all levels of government, regulators and business in Nigeria and other African countries.
Paul Burgess MBE
Roxane Ceyhan
Chairman
Chief Marketing Officer
Paul Burgess MBE is one of the UK's most eminent business experts on aesthetic medical procedures, products and training. He also has extensive experience of regeneration in the major cities of the UK. Paul has been working in Nigeria for the last 2 years on medical product registration and distribution. He is currently working with a major UK private hospital to offer cosmetic surgery services to Nigerian patients.
Roxane Ceyhan has over 7 years’ experience in Marketing and Communication. She worked for different media agencies in Paris & London and she has a strong international background. Roxane worked with major companies from the tech and luxury sectors - she also did develop strategic marketing insights and media tactics for Apple. This experience gave her a deep understanding of strategic thinking to all communication and marketing projects.
Sam Sivo
Head of Business Development
John Bray
Syd Baz
Senior Adviser
Geology Team Manager
Sam Sivo is an experienced commodities professional with a background in commodities trading and global regulatory compliance, with a good understanding of front to back office processes covering both physical and financial markets, having a proactive approach to business analysis, stakeholder management and project management for global regulations, trade surveillance, implementations and process improvement of front office and regulatory solutions.
F. John Bray is the former USA Consul General to Nigeria, a business strategist & implementer.
​John, a career member of the U.S. Department of State Senior Foreign Service, previously served as the US Consul General in Lagos. Since leaving government service he has served on a number of executive boards in Europe and West Africa where he specializes in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.
During his Foreign Service career, Mr. Bray served as the Senior Regional Security Officer in Abuja; Deputy RSO in Baghdad; senior RSO in Abidjan, Dakar, Nouakchott, and Tashkent; first Agent in Charge of the Karzai Protective Detail; and as assistant RSO in Cairo. In the United States, he served in Overseas Operations as the Special Operations Coordinator and as a member of the Mobile Security Division.
Mr. Bray received a Masters’ degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College. He also has a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the College of William and Mary. He speaks Russian and French.
Prior to joining the Department, he served in the U.S. Army as an Infantry and Special Forces Officer.
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Syd Baz is a seasoned technical specialist with extensive experience in mining engineering, resource management, and operational optimization. He has a proven track record of implementing innovative solutions to enhance productivity and sustainability in the mining industry. With a deep understanding of technical processes and project management, Syd contributes to driving impactful results and advancing resource efficiency.
Peter Petrou
Lawyer
Local experts
Peter Petrou is one of our lawyers
at RAR.
Peter commenced his legal career at leading US Law Firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP where he joined their Capital Markets department. Peter’s main practice involved advising on a wide range of equity, equity-linked and debt capital markets transactions, including IPO’s and Stock Market listings. He was involved in several multi-million and billion-dollar transactions for several blue chip clients.
Peter then moved to Trowers & Hamlins LLP, a law firm based in Central London, which is consistently ranked as one of the leading law firms in the Middle-East. During his time at Trowers & Hamlins LLP, Peter assisted his clients in Africa, Russia, India and the Middle-East on several real estate, corporate, project finance transactions and litigation.
In 2012, Peter launched Aspen Morris Solicitors and became one of the youngest Managing Partners of a Law Firm in the United Kingdom.
Peter advises both his domestic and international clients on Real Estate, Litigation, Employment, International Law and Corporate and Commercial matters.
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RAR has access to a large numbe rof local experts who can advise on all aspects of business development in Nigeria and the rest of Africa. It also has many connections to local media and its own local TV station and marketing agency.