Coffee Project in Tanzania

Jamie Kyles holds a BSc degree in Engineering Physics from Queens University at Kingston. His employment history includes 30 years with Shell Canada in various technical and management positions in Calgary and Toronto. In 2006 he spent 5 months working in Western Darfur area of Sudan on a State Dept project supporting the AU peace keeping force. For three years 2007 to 2009 he took on three, 4 month volunteer business advisory placements with VSO (now CUSO) in East Africa. (1) Learned about East African coffee, (2) partnered with a high quality Tanzanian NGO, (3) worked with NGO staff to create Kolcafé the first coffee project in 2011 / 2012. He has undertaken various project advisory / evaluation work for the UNEP SEED competition and the Gates Foundation. He lived in Victoria for more than 20 years and is a member of the Rotary Club of Victoria-Harbourside, he is married with 2 children, 20+ years in Victoria. He declares that he is an addicted kite surfer.