Our business is based upon the common goals of our two principal Directors and founders, Mr Dean Cooper and Ms Cindy Sampson, who have extensive experience of global energy/environmental concerns, sustainable development solutions, and international partnerships. Dean Cooper has worked in energy & environmental sectors for more than 10 years. He has been based in the UK, Belgium, South Africa and Botswana for the European Commission, and has focused on managing projects in developing areas. Before joining Parallax he managed an NPO in Tanzania, and worked in the UK and South Africa on various sustainable change initiatives.
Cindy Sampson has a background in law and structured finance, and worked for Shell S A for 7 years in their legal and new business development departments. She has also spent time in the USA working with various inner city & student business incubator initiatives. Before joining Parallax she worked with electricity service providers on urban & rural energisation projects and with various development consultants on issues such as the regulatory framework for natural gas in South Africa.
At Parallax we believe that the value we bring to our work comes from the unique combination of the experience of our two founders. Dean Cooper and Cindy Sampson bring together European outlooks and African standpoints, public sector and private sector, donor objective and commercial imperative, politics and law, art and science. And these spectra of experience are blended together with a common passion to transfer words into action, and to achieve sustainable rural business development through environmentally sound energy services.
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