'Building a resilient critical supply chain for a sustainable future.'
ABOUT US
The need for dependable critical mineral resources with varied and robust supply chains is essential to the security of a nation and to ensure technological competitiveness.
CMSCP Africa addresses the technical challenges, environmental considerations, geopolitical volatility, market volatility, and capital requirements to ensure the supply of the most critical metals in the world. Our expertise spans international diplomacy, finance, logistics and the environment with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
Parallel to this CMSCP works with mining companies in the region to boost their ESG performance to deliver a positive impact on stakeholder engagement, help mining partners manage risk, improve operational efficiency, and enhance their reputation among stakeholders.
OUR SERVICES
Working at source giving us a unique insight and understanding into the unique trading environment of critical minerals as they work across the value chain ensuring our clients are sufficiently diversified in an increasingly complex market.
TRADING SERVICES
CMSCP offers a unique, value driven model to its counterparts and delivers
African and global marketing expertise and a dedicated supply chain.
Efficient and Transparent financing solutions across the value chain.
Full logistic and material management services to clients.
Providing credit insurance and providing hedging services.
Sourcing solutions for key ingredients to help producers.
ESG SERVICES
CMSCP works with clients in the mining sectors to tackle some of their most pressing compliance, environmental and social concerns, covering their blind spots and act in their best interests, to ensure enhanced value for shareholders and improved relations with communities.
ESG Solutions aren’t only about reputation or regulatory demands.
It’s about a company’s long term decision to ensure its future without sacrificing its financial objectives.
Areas considered include but are not limited to;
Ensuring minimal environmental disruption complying with regulations on waste management, water usage, and land rehabilitation to adhere to national and international standards.
Occupational safety standards set by organizations require safety measures to be implemented and training programs to protect workers from occupational hazards.
Observing fair employment practices and labour standards, global modern slavery, and human rights legislation.
CURRENT PROJECTS
LEADERSHIP
Richard Taylor, MSc
Co-Founder and CEO
Richard comes from a background in project management and environmental stewardship with an MSc in Environmental Management.
Richard worked with one of the UK’s leading land remediation, development, and waste management organisations acting in a range of senior management roles, leading company engineers and managing the environmental impact of the organisation to develop a portfolio of sites for a range of industrial and commercial end users.
Following the sale of the UK company Richard moved to Zimbabwe in 2018 for family reasons. Since that time he has led environmental projects for a Zimbabwean government technology service provider, developed environmental commercial solutions for the region’s largest logistics provider, J&J Logistics and worked with a leading global U.S Mining environmental solutions provider in Africa.
Eric Taylor
Co-Founder and Chairman
Eric Taylor has had a long and successful career having been a lawyer for some twenty years he acquired his largest client company successfully acquiring a wide range of capital assets.
He developed the concept of the ‘managed exit’ for non-core assets delivering value for all parties. He has chaired several companies across a wide spectrum of industries and has been at the sharp end of delivering infrastructure projects across a diverse range of opportunities. Following a well-earned retirement, he took up the remarkably interesting challenge of delivering critical minerals from a joint base in Zimbabwe and London.
He is the founder and remains chairman of the Critical Mineral Partnership working with national government to build upon the many opportunities that exists in the critical minerals sector. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for charitable services.
Calvin Ishe Harris
CFO
Ishe Calvin Harris has 10+ year’s experience in Origination and Corporate Banking across EMEA, Asia and South American Markets. Calvin has overseen a portfolio with clients generating over $5bn within the African energy and renewables sector. During this time Calvin acted as a portfolio Manager for over $250m of investments in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa’s FMCG, Agriculture and Mining sectors.
ESG
Our ESG practices involve incorporating environmental, social, and governance considerations into our decision-making process. We have developed a defined approach to value chain due diligence, assessing our suppliers impact on the environment, evaluating the social and human rights implications and ensuring that supplier companies are governed in an ethical and responsible manner.
Through the development of a sustainability strategy, implementing responsible sourcing policies, and engaging with stakeholders to identify and address ESG risks we help build a sustainable long term future for our partners.
We also act independently to support mining companies regionally to improve and meet their ESG compliance.
OFFICES AND CONTACTS
Southern Africa
119 Coronation Avenue
Greendale
Harare
Zimbabwe
London
14 Bristol Mews
London
W92JF
General Enquiries
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