Seplat Energy Plc has announced appointment of three new directors on the board of the company. They include Mrs. Bashirat Odunewu as an independent non-executive director, Mr. Kazeem Raimi and Mr. Ernest Ebi as non-executive directors.
The three appointees will be joining the Seplat board with effect from May 18, 2022. A statement issued yesterday at the weekend in Abuja said Mrs. Bashirat Odunewu is a banking and financial expert with about 30 years’ experience in the finance and banking industry.
Up till June 2021, she served as C-Suite executive, corporate banking (energy, natural resources & infrastructure), at First Bank Nigeria Ltd, prior to which she was the line executive for their international banking group.
She is a business development veteran, well versed in business strategy with over 10 years hands-on experience at C-suite Executive Management level, an alumnus of Imperial College (University of London) and University of Manchester, the statement said.
Mr. Kazeem Raimi, is a nominee of Platform Petroleum Limited replacing Mr. Austin Avuru who stepped down from the board of Seplat Energy on 1st March 2022. He is presently the executive director, commercial for Platform Petroleum Limited.
Previously with Seplat Energy as general manager, commercial, Mr. Raimi was charged with the responsibility for driving commercial, economics, valuation, planning and treasury activities across the entire organisation. He also served previously as manager, corporate planning and economics at Seplat Energy.
In addition to his role at Platform Petroleum Limited, Mr. Raimi also serves as a Non – executive director at PNG Gas Limited and Ase River Transport Company Limited.
Mr. Raimi holds a First-Class Honors in Economics from the University of Ibadan, an Msc in oil and gas economics from the University of Dundee and has undertaken several courses in Harvard Business School.
Mr. Ernest Ebi is a nominee of Shebah Petroleum Development Company Limited (BVI) replacing Dr. A.B.C Orjiako who will step down from the board of Seplat Energy on 18th May 2022 after the annual general meeting.
He is an executive whose vast experience in the banking and finance industry spans over four decades. From June 1999 to June 2009, he was appointed as a deputy governor at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) where he covered policy and corporate services portfolios.
Prior to this, Mr. Ebi held several executive positions in the banking industry in Nigeria and the United States of America. He was the deputy managing director in Diamond Bank Ltd where he led the bank’s financial services marketing strategy & initiatives for new business development amongst others.
In 1995, he was appointed by the CCBN and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation (NDIC) as the chief executive officer of New Nigerian Bank Plc. Mr. Ebi served as the board chairman of Fidelity Bank Plc (2016 – 2020) and AIICO Pension Managers (2010-2021) and currently serves as an independent director on the board of Dangote Cement Plc., Julius Berger Nigeria Plc., Coronation Capital Ltd, and Coronation Asset Management Ltd.
He was awarded the National Honour of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) by the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2007 in recognition of his meritorious service.
Commenting on the appointments, Dr. A. B. C. Orjiako, chairman of SEPLAT Energy said the appointees are excellent professionals with their wealth of experience spanning over decades. “SEPLAT Energy eagerly looks forward to the enormous contributions they will make towards achieving global success.”
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