4 minutes with… Oladunjoye A. Waleola, Managing Director, Avandith Renewable Energy Limited

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.

We are a biofuels technology company, who specialises in Jatropha curcas and the extraction of it’s oil as a sustainable fuel. We consult for farmers/clients and help them in cultivating Jatropha curcas and selling its seed as a profitable cash crop.

Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months.

Our Policy Goals is to become one of the world’s influential ‘green industry’ companies, by placing renewable and alternative energy farms around the globe.

What do you feel are the most important milestones the industry must achieve in the next 5 years?  

To contribute to the sustainable of world green energy

If you could snap your fingers and change one thing about the Advanced Bioeconomy, what would you change? 

reluctance of investors

Of all the reasons that influenced you to join the Advanced Bioeconomy industry, what single reason stands out for you as still being compelling and important to you?  

For the whole world to go green

Where are you from? 

Ondo In Ondo State Nigeria

What was your undergraduate major in college, and where did you attend? Why did you choose that school and that pathway?

The Polytechnic Ibadan Oyo State Nigeria

Who do you consider your mentors – could be personal, business, or just people you have read about and admire. What have you learned from them?

Biofuels Digest and Biofuels International.

What’s the biggest lesson you ever learned during a period of adversity?  

To hold the truth to the end.

What hobbies do you pursue, away from your work in the industry?

Holiday’s

What are 3 books you’d want to have with you, if you were stranded on a desert island

(1.)Things fall apart (2.) Julius Ceaser (3.)Biofuels Digest Based Books and Articles

What books or articles are on your reading list right now, or you just completed and really enjoyed?  

Biofuels Digest and Biofuels International books and articles

What’s your favorite city or place to visit, for a holiday?

My favorite city or place to visit is ontario in Canada.