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// About Kova

We’re building a region that wastes nothing.

Our story

Every tonne of waste is a resource in the wrong place. KOVA exists to put it back to work, building the infrastructure that turns the Kingdom’s waste and sunlight into clean fuel, power, and materials, at the scale a nation actually needs.

We develop, fund, build, and operate across Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC: waste-to-fuel and waste-to-energy plants, material recovery, solar, storage, and the infrastructure Vision 2030 is built on. What sets us apart is ownership. Most of this industry hands a project between a developer, a financier, a contractor, and an operator, and value leaks at every seam. We hold all four. One partner, one standard, accountable from the first feasibility study through decades of operations.

That’s why bankability is engineered in from day one, and why every asset is held to a single standard: zero waste to landfill, full material and energy recovery, performance measured and reported year on year. The circular economy isn’t a target we’re working toward. It’s the infrastructure we’re building now, and the foundation for everything the Kingdom builds next.

// Our mission

Turn the region’s waste
into the power that
builds its future.

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Projects under development

Active capital deployed across waste-to-energy, recycling, and water infrastructure pipelines in the Kingdom.

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Years of expertise

Two decades delivering complex environmental and energy projects across the GCC and Nordic markets.

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Clients served

Government bodies, municipalities, industrial offtakers, and institutional investors across the region.

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Zero waste

Our standard: zero waste to landfill. Every project engineered for full material and energy recovery.

What we hold to

Zero waste to landfill

Every project is engineered for full material and energy recovery. Nothing buried, nothing wasted — that’s the standard, not the aspiration.

Saudi Vision 2030

Aligned with Vision 2030

We build to the Kingdom’s blueprint — calibrated to Saudi Arabia’s capacity, sustainability, and localization targets under Saudi Vision 2030.

Accountable end to end

We fund it, build it, and run it. One partner owning the outcome — from the first feasibility study through decades of operations.

Built for generations

Infrastructure that outlasts us — leaving the Kingdom cleaner, more circular, and more self-reliant than we found it.

The people behind it

A multidisciplinary team of developers, engineers, and financiers bringing two decades of GCC and Nordic expertise to every project we fund, build, and operate.

The KOVA team
Sami Kivisalo
Ashley Bryan
Saku Pitkanen
Wathiq Al-Ibrahim
Mark Rocca
Mohamad Issa
Selvakumar Thirugnanam
Joshua Kivisalo
Benjamin Kivisalo
Hamish Bryan
Hamsah Bushnaq
Asem Kanaan
Meet the full team

Let's build the circular economy.

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