Who We are
Across Atlantic Development (AAD) is a global organisation that works with its network of member companies and other partners to build a just and sustainable world. With its span across Europe, Africa and North America, AAD develops sustainable business strategies and solutions to global issues through dedicated research, advocacy/campaigns, consultation and collaboration with respect to Sustainable Development Goals. Learn more about AAD's sustainability development programmes, empowerment programmes, human right advocacy, poverty eradication, business and corporate social responsibilities and lots more.
A deep commitment to diversity
Our Team
David Apollus
Founder / CEO
david.apollus@acrossatlantic.org
David Apollus
Founder/CEO
Bako Faysal
Director - Strategies And Operations
bako.faysal@acrossatlantic.org
Bako Faysal
Director - Strategies And Operations
Damian Terna
Director - Research & Development / Project Management
damian.terna@acrossatlantic.org
Damian Terna
Director - Research & Development / Project Management
Jennifer Rolland
Head Legal / Human Resources
Jennifer@acrossatlantic.org
Jennifer Rolland
Head Legal / Human Resources
Allen Annom
IT Director
allen.annom@acrossatlantic.org
Allen Annom
IT Director
Samuel Bamisaye Ph.D
Across Atlantic Club Director
samuel.bamisaye@acrossatlantic.org
Samuel Bamisaye Ph.D
Across Atlantic Club Director
Ademola Ishola Ph.D
Across Atlantic Club Director
ademola.ishola@acrossatlantic.org
Ademola Ishola Ph.D
Across Atlantic Club Director
Jacob Areo
Project And Administrative Manager
jacob.areo@acrossatlantic.org
Jacob Areo
Project And Administrative Manager
Gbenga Sunday
Country Coordinator - USA
gbenga@acrossatlantic.org
Gbenga Sunday
Country Coordinator - USA
Nancy Nyame
Operation Manager - Ghana
nancy@acrossatlantic.org
Nancy Nyame
Operation Manager - Ghana
Havilah Ewaoluwa Bamisaye
Across Atlantic Ambassador
havilah.ewaoluwa@acrossatlantic.org
Havilah Ewaoluwa Bamisaye
Across Atlantic Ambassador
About Us
We work with institutions, organisations, and communities to support positive and lasting change. Our focus is on practical work that helps people live better lives while respecting the limits of our environment. We believe progress is strongest when it is shared. By working across sectors and borders, we aim to support fair access to opportunity, encourage responsible development, and help ideas turn into outcomes that benefit both people and society.
We support initiatives that strengthen the link between research and real-world application. Too often, valuable research remains unused. We aim to help create environments where innovation can move beyond academic settings and into practical use.
By encouraging collaboration between universities, researchers, and industry, we help support the development of ideas that contribute to economic growth, skills development, and wider social benefit, including through the responsible use of intellectual property.
Environmental challenges also present opportunities for innovation and development. We support initiatives that address issues such as waste management, renewable energy, and sustainable resource use in ways that create jobs and long-term value.
Our approach focuses on practical solutions that balance environmental protection with economic opportunity, helping communities move toward more sustainable and resilient futures.
We believe education and shared experience are powerful tools for personal and social development. Our programmes support learning, skills development, and knowledge exchange across institutions and communities, both locally and internationally.
These opportunities are open to people from a wide range of backgrounds, including students, educators, professionals, and volunteers. By supporting mobility, collaboration, and access to education, we aim to help individuals build confidence, experience, and connections that last beyond any single programme.
Our Story
The evolution of the world business development today prior to the idea of stakeholders lead to a new vision of business emerging giving way to the way we think about business and its sustainability. This was an ideology and foresight for business development towards realising a positive, community and social change which would be seen as a catalyst towards preserving and restore human/natural resources, while ensuring human values, peacefulness, ecosystem protection, empowerment, equality, fairness, while holding transparency and accountability as the tool towards development.
The core and fundamental believe is to work with companies and Non-governmental organisations for social, development, community, environmental protection, equality, while ensuring cooperate social responsibilities for these companies while giving back to the communities.
To redefine and see that these strategies are implemented, the AAD Founder/CEO David Apollus, has the call and idea to shape and implement these strategies. He has wide experience globally and have worked with different international organisations both on project management, and board member with the United Nation Sweden where he draw experiences on the MDGs of the United Nation, and also on alcohol and drug policy focusing sub-Sahara Africa, which he also has international experience as a hindrance towards social development, and also other projects on the aftermath of war remnant like, human refugees, (IDPs) landmines, where he has lead a team to supervise and monitor a United Nation Sweden funded landmine demining projects in Cambodia and other related sustainable projects there. He has (MBA) at Georgia State University. J. Mack Robinson College of Business Atlanta(USA) and MBA at Master d’Administration des Enterprises, Institute d’Administration des Enterprises de Paris, Sorbonne France.
He spearheads the adoption of the code of conduct for MDGs goals, supply chain, humanitarian approach, migration issues, democracy in countries where is not fully implemented, alcohol/drug policies advocacy/lobby and labour practices, as well as the spirit to adopted some strategies towards working with enterprises and profit sectors to create a favourable and sustainable world while giving back to the communities and social cooperate responsibilities (CSR). With this in mind AAD has the mind to deliver on these fundamentals with its dedicated team spread across the continent.
Looking at the trend whereby the new millennium today, sustainability and acquisitions began to go mainstream. This has called for the arrival of the UN Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative, coupled with the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference and the governance failures illustrated by Enron case, middle east crisis, economic crisis, war, and others, which further catalyzed attention by most global businesses to see how best we can hold each other accountable, transparent and press the government to be more favourable towards policies for enterprises and business to accommodate small and young business ideas and proper integration while empowering women and men in each sector. Our focus is not less than environmental issues, particularly energy, agriculture and climate, ecosystems services, and water, as well as peace social development. We need all to be part of the global and world growth.