John Stepney is a Business Consultant and project Development Manager based in Cameroon, West Africa. With many years of professional experience in the UK, Spain and Africa, Mr. Stapney has been mainly active in the petrochemical, agricultural and mining sectors, with special emphasis on project development, lobbying, technical sales strategy and legal and financial due diligence, including corporate management for project development companies. He has worked for the petrochemical company Don & Low plc of Scotland and subsequently for both Shell UK and Montsanto as they successively took it over as a wholly-owned subsidiary. At TMS he also explores fresh avenues for business as well as better ways of doing what we do.