Our employees, contractors, vendors, investors, and community partners are critical to our success. We are challenged with a vital job to safely find, process, and deliver quality sustainable energy, power, and light to the world. Our operational success and economic sustainability depend on our people. Our employees focus on safety, quality, accountability, and performance excellence, enabling us to safely find and deliver our products and services to the world. We recruit and keep quality employees because we have the following advantages:
- Great Diversity & Inclusion Programs: Creating an inclusive work environment.
- Compensation, Benefits & Wellness: Competitive compensation and benefits
- Unique Employee Networks: Forums for open discussion development and connection
- Learning & Development programs: Rigorous talent development and succession planning
Black Crystal World Global Enterprises Executive Management & Leadership Team
Leadership
Leadership is the responsible handling of power and authority positively and sustainably. We not only put people in leadership positions, but they also learn to follow our people. Our leaders inspire people and exhibit confidence as they lead and create more leaders rather than followers. They are bold, strong, kind, passionate, creative, and confident to stand alone but not consumed by power or authority and are ready to make tough decisions and empower others.
A leader performs best when their vision and the practical reality meet. Leadership is a definition of a clear mission and vision with achievable strategic goals and objectives. The idea, vision, and strategies must encompass the leaders’ ability to guide, influence, mentor, and lead individuals, teams, groups, or the entire organization with practical skill, knowledge, ability, education, power, and authority.
Our Executive Management Team
Here at Black Crystal World, we manage things but lead people, and we are able, willing, and ready to follow. We employ good people with vision, not a good resume with potential. Where there is no vision, the potential for growth and sustainable progress is limited. Along with the employees, our leaders are empowered, lead, follow, and guide our organizations’ vision, mission, and strategic goals by showing not telling us what they can do.
Like our business enterprises, most of our employees work extremely hard in the background but are barely noticed until the work is complete, and the mission, goals, or objectives are accomplished enough to say “yes” we did it.”
We are always in a mode of “great” work in progress, and we let our work speak for us with the tenacious guidance of outstanding leadership in individuals, teams, and groups. Everyone in our organization is and can be a leader because we develop leaders, not followers. Our leaders show people how to do things, not telling them what to do. While individuals may have different leadership styles, the primary leadership style throughout our organization is leadership by example.
We are responsible for each other’s growth and development as leaders by sharing our knowledge, learning, mentoring, motivating, coaching, instructing, training, and educating. Please, meet a few people in some leadership positions in our organization, starting with the funder, owner, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer.
Corporate Staff:
Meet our Founder, Owner/Chairman & CEO
Leads the company’s ambitious and realistic measurable mission, vision, and strategic goals by driving a unique combination of organic growth that utilizes revenue and earnings as performance metrics to maximize the gain from within, with significant financial returns from promoting new markets, products, and services as attractive additional resources for our continuous growth and sustainable development.
A forward-looking visionary business entrepreneur, coach, trainer, teacher, professor, and technical transportation engineer. A philanthropist, charismatic leader, and business magnate. A petroleum geologist, public administrator, designer, investor, and media proprietor. He is a creator of outstanding global business enterprises with a wealth of knowledge and experience in general public and private business management, technical engineering, public works design, transportation engineering research, geology, petroleum geology, oil and gas exploration, and business administration.
He is the founder, chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), Black Crystal World (A global group of enterprises consisting of Black Crystals International; Black Crystal Enterprises, Black Crystal Oil & Gas Explorations, Black Crystal Energy, Power & Light, Black Crystal Mines, and Minerals Exploration, Black Crystal Engineering & Design, Black Crystal Construction, Black Crystal Communications, Black Crystal Developments, Black Crystal Homes, Black Crystal Resorts, Black Crystal Entertainments, Black Crystal Arts & Crafts). He is also the founder of the African American Development Exchange Inc, Comet Group International, and many other privately held business ventures.
Dr. Etti-Williams is a pioneer and developer of the revolutionary engineering mat that uses fabric form with Cement and Fly Ash grout mixture for erosion and or sediment control worldwide along streams, rivers, beaches, lakes, roadways, and bridges.
Our executive teams have the skills, ability, knowledge, and broad education necessary to be current, relevant, and extensive in many industries, market trends, global economies, and issues. Our professionals have essential experience in engineering, planning, public policy, management, and general business administration practices. They exhibit leadership, extensive legal, economic, management, technical innovation, and creativity experience, including marketing and sales experience, business negotiation and strategic planning, organization, development, and transformation experience.
Brenda Criswell Etti-Williams
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Leads the teams responsible for operating finance, direct investment opportunities, project financial management and funding, commercial acquisitions, and divestitures.
Daniel Oladosu Etti-Williams
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Leads the teams responsible for worldwide operations, corporate planning, and technology by conducting realistic measures of our mission and strategic objectives through environmental scanning to secure updated information on current economic opportunities in line with our corporate vision.
Dr. Henry B. Crichlow
Chief Engineering/Consultant: Energy & Petroleum
Leads the contract and compliance team and serves in an advisory capacity as the primary and chief consultant on nuclear energy, energy power and light, oil and gas exploration, drilling, and production matters.
Lisa Rena Brighton
Executive Vice President and Chief Economic Officer
Leads the economic teams to identify our organization’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) in the existing and prospective financial markets, industries, and environmental settings. To ensure achievement of our integrating strategic long- and short-term goals and adopting measures that may bring improved structural and functional changes in the composition and operations of the organization.
Anthony Trevino, Jr.
Chief Legal and General Counsel
Serves as the legal counsel and provides oversight on all legal issues impacting our enterprise operations. Manage a company’s legal compliance as well as corporate governance. Ensures the company’s legal obligations are all met. The CLC represents the company in court and the organization’s administrative hearings. When necessary, convey legal advice to company executives, advise top executives (CEO, COO, CFO, CEE) and the board of directors on legal matters, and manage compliance issues. Reviews business contracts and acquisitions documents or plans. Monitors vital legal changes that affect the company’s operations and the business worldwide enterprises and industries. Develops approved curriculum to convey legal matters to employees, oversees the hiring of internal and external legal teams, leads and manages the legal teams, communicates and oversees compliance regulations government agencies.
Bob Rucksacks
Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)
Leads the human resources team responsible for hiring, training, discipline, and firing employees. Leads the team responsible for managing ethics, values, corporate responsibilities, and EEOC compliance requirements, regulations, rules, and in-house compliance programs to assist our company and the Board of Directors (the “BCW. Board of Directors”) in fulfilling its oversight duties and responsibilities. The HR team provides actionable recommendations concerning compliance with applicable personnel rules, federal government’s civil service laws, regulations, and other related standards.
Irene Kara Bradshaw
Chief Safety and Compliance Officer (CSCO)
Leads the safety team in conducting risk assessment and enforce, preventative measures that minimize risk and ensure the safety of employees. CSF and team review existing policies and standards and update our practices according to federal or state legislation to support the development of OHS policies and programs. Advice and instruct the company on various safety-related issues or topics (maintenance requirements, noise levels, and use of safety equipment, etc. ). Creates policies and procedures, including enforcing government regulations, overseeing all safety protocols, developing improved safety training, and instituting root cause analysis programs to analyze what went wrong when accidents happen.
Barbara Roller-Watkins
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Leads the ethics and compliance staff, managing ethics and compliance issues and programs, assisting the BCW’s Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight duties and responsibilities regarding compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards. The CCO is also responsible for designing, implementing, and monitoring the processes by which the company will comply with all applicable federal laws and regulations, including international markets requirements for local content.
Mary G. Henderson
Vice President: Real Estate Development and Facilities Management:
Leads the team in real estate tasks involving office building, land acquisitions, and facilities services. Leads and oversees the team responsible for managing the portfolio of all our properties. Assists and provide recommendations to support the functionality, safety, and sustainability of buildings, grounds, infrastructure, and real estate developments. The VP also serves as facilities oversight manager responsible for lease management, including lease administration and accounting. Prepares capital project planning and management and practice good basic facilities management to ensure the company’s properties in the portfolio maintain and remain sustainable, profitable assets.
Michael Tosin Oluwafemi
Senior Vice. President: Information Systems Management Technology—Web Design & Management Division.
Leads the company’s web design team and the social media management division directing and coordinating various organizations’ social media activities. Provides social media strategy, governance, content, measurement, and technical, administrative support for the business web pages and associated enterprises that translate big ideas into tangible deliverables. Leads cultivate and implement fundamental foundational social media strategies across the organization with a variety of stakeholders.
Our Enterprise Leadership Management Team
Dr. Henry B. Crichlow: Chief Consultant: Energy and Petroleum Engineering
Dr. Emmanuel P. Harris, Vice President: Oil & Gas, Petroleum Engineering
George Onita, Manager: Petrochemical & Chemical Engineering
Fredric D. Moore, Vice President: Energy, Power & Light
Craig B. Muller, Manager: Non-Renewable Energy
- Oil
- Natural gas
- Coal
- Nuclear
Arthur Andrew McCafé, Manager: Renewable Energy
- Solar
- Wind
- Hydro
- Ocean
- Waves
- Biomass
- Geothermal
- Fuel Cell
- Hydrogen
Bob Rucksacks, Power & Light
Sue Hendricks, Light
Bradley McIntyre, President: Construction Management
Anthony Elias McCown, President: Construction & Civil Engineering
Thomas Bliedden, Vice President: Public Works Civil Engineering
Richard Edison, Vice President: Private Residential & Commercial Construction
Bruce Brannon, Vice President: Environmental Engineering
Elizabeth Cooks, Vice President: Media & Communications
Michael Drakes, Vice President: Management Training & Development
Enterprises Crude Oil, Natural Gas
Refinery & Petrochemicals
Victor B. Mooreland; President: Marketing & Strategic Development
Samson Watson III, Vice President: Up-Stream
David G. Henson, Vice President: Midstream
Collins Draper, Vice President: Downstream & Chemicals
Mathews Brandmeier, Vice President: LNG, CNG
Elias Krasinski, Manager: Underground Natural Gas Storage,
Samuel Brandt, Asst Manager: Aboveground & Pipeline
Chris Descartes, Assistant Manager: Tanks and Other Storage
Energy Power & Lights
Dr. Thomas Drake, President: Power & Light Production (Nuclear, Co-generation Solar, Wind, Hydro, Bio, Coal. Geo.)
Brad Waddington, Vice President: Energy & Power Generation (Hydro)
Wale Kensington, Vice President: Energy & Power Transmission
Bruce Bradly, Vice President: Energy & Power Distribution
Abayomi Abubakar, Vice President: Cogeneration Energy Mix Production. Waste Management (Heat-cogeneration, Coal-Fly ash.)
Mines & Solid Minerals Exploration
David Bruce Mankato, President: Mines & Minerals Operations
Paul Nicholas Braswell, Vice President: Mines Acquisition & Asset Management
Wilson D. Ogando, Vice President: Strategy and Business Development
Bill C. Thomason, Vice President: Field Operations. Precious Minerals Exploration & Acquisition
Phillip Watson, Vice President: Marketing. Global Market Development (Government & Corporate Relations)
Engineering Construction & Infrastructure Development
Abram C. Cook, President: Construction Management
Bola Evans, Vice President, Americas (North/South Americas)
Felix Gilberto, Vice President, Europe, Africa & Middle East
Jun Nguyen, Vice President, Asia Pacific
Richard White, Vice President, United Kingdom
Brad Wilkinson, Vice President, Canada (Western Region Only)
Tony Estrada Garcia, Vice President, South America (Latin America)
Information Technology & Telecommunications Management
Biola Aguda, President: Information Technology
Folalarin Williams, Vice President: Radio & Television Communication
Bryan Richardson, Vice President: Media & Telecom Investment
Funmi Akande, Vice President: Fiber Optics
Brad Edward III, Vice President: Wireline Telephone System & Voice Over IP (VOIP) Transmission
Enterprises Support
George B. Rohmer, Vice President: Exploration Research & Development
Bob Atkinson, Vice President: Information Technology & Science
Oluwole, Vice President: Global Market New Opportunities Research
Friday A Davies, VP: Innovation & New Business Incubations
Enterprises Operations Subsidiaries
Global Regions and Corporate Relations
James P. Wilson: President: Enterprise Regional President
John B. Cusack, Vice President: Enterprise Management Officer (EMO)
Frances Bolden, Vice President: North America, Dallas, Texas office
Richard Davidson, Vice President: South America & Brenda Fitzgerald, Latin America
Collins Inogaza, Vice President: Africa
Abdul El Sabal, Vice President: Europe
Ali Mustapha, Vice President: Middle East
Raj Patel, Vice President: Asia Pacific
Other Enterprises Operations Management
Edward Morrey, VP: Diversity & Inclusion Black Crystal Enterprises
Dele Omowunmi, VP: Investment Development Black Crystals International
Brenda C, Criswell, VP: Chief Financial Officer (CFO) BCW & COMET Group International
David B. Jones, Chief Operation Officer. African American Development Exchange, Inc.
Sarah Wusu, Consultant Human Resources for Black Crystal World
Doug Bradley, VP: Engineering and Technology
Jenny Stevenson, VP: Startup Business Development
Marian Jones, VP: Project Management & Resource Controls
Bill H. Jordan, VP: Digital Enterprise Program Management
Eric Moore, VP: Business Ethics Code of Conduct & Compliance
Allen Morris, VP: Procurement and Contracts Management
Charles Williams, Chief Auditor: -Internal Audit
David Doe, Deputy Director: Health, Safety, and Environmental Management
Emily Patterson, VP: Construction Management: (Field Operations)
Marian Stoop, Assistant General Counsel: Risk Management
Thomas Calgary, Chief Security Officer: Operations Security
Craig Stoker, VP: Quality and Six Sigma
Joseph Brighton, VP: Corporate Affairs & Sustainability
Edward Kelly, Chief Information Officer: Science & Technology Innovation Management
Wanda Brown, VP: Information Systems Management
Board of Director
Black Crystal World-Global Enterprises, Inc.
Executive Directors & Board Members
Dr. Jimmy Etti-Williams, Owner, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Black Crystal World -Global Enterprises & Subsidiaries
Brenda Etti-Williams Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Daniel Etti-Williams, Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Anthony Trevino, Jr. Chief Legal Officer (CLO) General Counsel
Dr. Henry B. Crichlow, Chief Executive Consulting Engineer “Exploration & Production -Field Operations” Officer (CE-FOO)
Bob Rucksacks, Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO)
Irene Kara Bradshaw, Chief Safety and Compliance Officer (CSCO)
Barbara Roller-Watkins, Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO)
Abiodun Etti-Williams, Board Member
Rosemary B. Fletcher, Board Member
Barbara G. Ellison, Board Member
James McCauley, Board Member
Richard Odeon, Board Member
Peter Okpara Jr, Board Member
Paul. D. O’Reilly, Board Member
Rose Victoria Solana, Board Member
Non-Executive Board Members
*Dehinde Etti-Williams, (Late) Former Vice-Chairman of the Board and Co-CEO, Black Crystal World –Global Enterprises. Board Member
*Sheron Atkins Williams., Board Member (Retired) Former Senior Exec. Atkins Oil & Gas Exploration.
Bunmi Olokodana Smith, Board Member Former President & CEO, Olokodana Group.
Folake Badura Asemota, Board Member Former Chairman and CEO, AJAX International Inc.
Edward Braithwaite, Board Member Former Chairperson, Braithwaite International Limited.
Chief David Nwoko, Board Member Former Chairman, OWOs International.
These professionals and our other staff have the requisite administrative and professional technical and managerial background experiences from the private and public sectors, developing, administering, or managing strategic businesses. They have been involved in planning or restructuring private/public organizations, economic growth and development, international business operations, private business enterprises acquisitions and ventures, health care management, public policy administration, customer-centric strategies, entrepreneurial and financial management, general business management, and market globalization.
Our Executive teams are aware and ready for the challenges inherent in the current economic globalization trend. They are prepared to actively participate as one of the most impressive privately-owned business members and active drivers of economic globalization with the purposive aim of achieving our set organization’s mission, vision, and strategic goals.
The current economic globalization has increased the economic interdependence of international, national, and transnational economies worldwide. This economic interdependence provides our enterprises with the potential for rapid expansion. It also improves our financial relationships with many of our subsidiaries. We are using currently available technology and easily accessible financial capital to bolster this position.
Our executive leadership is prepared and ready to actively support and take advantage of economic globalization to manage, motivate, and mentor our employees to become high performing and overachiever workforce.
Our employees are driven and prepared to work tirelessly with various international economic and diverse communities and different local, regional and national governments involved in a diverse regulatory climate of favorable and sometimes unfavorable business or trade policies.
Our workers have the necessary training and are prepared to challenge the industries and markets as variable costs drive them. We are actively involved in marketing standardized and improving substandard products and services as consumers in different global regions demand and or reject similar products. At the same time, we combat the market with quality differentiation of products and services. We are not only good at what we do, but we are also great at what we do, and we aim to be higher in quality and better than ever in service provisions and delivery.
Despite the dynamic and continuous change, we plan to actively compete within the already congested global markets with fierce competitors in highly charged, extremely competitive, and diverse industries.
We maintain a hefty but fair share of the markets with large profit margins capitalizing on the surge of new research and technological changes that consistently made communication easier. We effectively and efficiently perform economically using differentiation, steadily improving our market access, making it easy to conduct businesses worldwide.
Our objective is to remain a forward-looking group of enterprises and the excellent reimagining force for businesses, the environment, people, and our planet. We celebrate our cultural diversity, value our differences, and espouse equity and inclusive participation of our people and their careers. Join our organization here at Black Crystal world.