NOTORE CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES - Key Persons
Engr. Mike Orugbo JP, who holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Teeside University in the UK is a leading EPIC and Human Capital Development Professional with over 28 years experience in engineering services in the Oil and Gas Industry, participating in several major projects such as KRPC Lab Plant, WRPC de-bottlenecking (expansion) Project, HF Alkylation Polypropylene and Carbon Black Plants (Green Field Projects).
He worked with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for several years and rose to the position of Senior Engineer, WRPC. In 1989, he became the Managing Director/CEO of O-Secul Engineering Company, which later became O-Secul Nigeria Limited in 1997.
He is a corporate member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and is COREN certified. He has attended several technical courses in Europe and America and is vastly experienced in engineering services, consultancy and support systems in the oil and gas industry.
Mr Ike Osakwe is a Chartered Accountant and practising Management Consultant. He holds bachelors' and masters' degrees in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and is an associate Member of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants both for Nigeria, and for England and Wales. Initially trained for four years at KPMG Audit in London, Ike is recently retired as the Managing Director of GRID Consulting Ltd. - a company that he established in 1986 and which specializes in financial management advisory for commerce, industry, governments, and NGOs.
Mr. Osakwe has over 40 years' experience in financial, strategic and corporate planning, as well as organisational and financial management systems development, both in Nigeria and internationally. He has brought his vast experience in the dynamics of most major industrial sectors to bear in his work on corporate governance.
He has held several government and board appointments and currently serves on the boards of Oando Plc., Proton Energy Ltd., and DAI Global LLC(a US-based global development corporation). He previously served on the boards of Leadway Pensure PFA and Red Star Express Nigeria Ltd; and chaired the boards of Thomas Wyatt Nig. Plc. and UBA Trustees Ltd.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICMG Securities Limited
Mr Michael Osime is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICMG Securities Limited and Chairman of Broadband Technologies Limited, a telecommunications and IT solutions company. He is a qualified stockbroker with many years of banking and finance experience.
Mr Osime has a degree in Actuarial Science, which he obtained from the University of Lagos in 1981 and also has an MBA from the Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers.
Mr. Bashir Lebada manages Orascom Construction Industries' (OCI) investments and project development. Mr. Lebada joined OCI in 2007. He is responsible for identifying and analyzing potential investments and projects and the ensuing involvement in successful initiatives.
Mr. Lebada holds a bachelors degree from the University of Western Ontario (Canada) with a double major in Finance and Accounting and a minor in Economics.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Deputy Managing Director
Mr. Ebiaho Emafo is the Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Managing Director of Notore Chemical Industries Plc. With over 25 years of progressive global experience driving positive bottom-line results for companies (local, international, public and private) by providing overall strategic vision and leadership, his focus is on financial development, staff development, and organizational excellence. Mr. Emafo has worked in various capacities in his professional career, playing key executive management roles in Lafarge S.A.; Celtel and Zain International in the Netherlands and East Africa respectively; Airtel in Ghana and the United Nations in New York, USA. Mr. Emafo was the immediate past Managing Director of Eroton Exploration &Production Limited. Other roles he has held include Head, Purchasing at Total Upstream and Project Officer at the UN Peace Forces.
Mr. Femi Agbaje is the former Chief Financial Officer of Notore Chemical Industries Plc and served in this capacity from 2007 until his retirement in 2018. Upon joining the company, Mr. Agbaje led his team in successfully raising $222 million for the rehabilitation of the Notore fertilizer plant located in Onne, Rivers State.
Mr. Agbaje joined Notore with extensive experience in finance acquired through multiple positions he held over the years, and he previously served as Executive Director, Deputy General Manager, Head of Consumer Banking and Managing Director in companies such as Kenneth, Michael &Company; First Securities Discount House; UBA and Midas Bank. He is Chairman of the Board of FSDH Merchant Bank Limited.
Mr. Agbaje holds a Bachelor's in History and Political Science from the University of Ife in Osun State, Nigeria. He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria since 1986 and a Fellow of Chartered Association of Certified Accounts, UK since 1990.
Mr. Agbaje is an avid swimmer and golfer. He enjoys travelling and loves spending time with his wife and children playing Scrabble.
Jonathan also served as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Directors of Keystone Bank Limited between 2011-2015.
Jonathan Yusufu Pam studied Law (LLB) at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1986. He obtained an LLM from the University of London in 1995 as a Chevening Scholar of the British Council and interned with The Interrights Organisation and Human Rights Watch in London, both globally renowned organisations.
He has held various positions including Chairman, Civil Liberties Organisation, Plateau State (1994 to 1997), Chairman, Nigerian Bar Association, Plateau State (2000 to 2002), Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Plateau State and Special Adviser on Youth and Sports to the Government of Plateau State (2002 to 2004).
Jonathan is a private legal practitioner and the Managing Partner in the law firm of J.Y. Pam and Company. He is a corporate lawyer with extensive experience in commercial law and practice and acts as legal adviser/external solicitor to several corporations, financial institutions and governments on matters regarding corporate law, company incorporation, taxation, criminal law and civil litigation.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director and Founding Partner of Emerging Capital Partners
Mr. Michael Jansa is a Managing Director and founding partner of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP). Jansa is responsible for identifying, analysing and recommending investments, performing due diligence and leading transaction teams. Prior to ECP's spinout from EMP Global (EMP), Mr. Jansa had been a Director with EMP since 2000.
Before joining EMP, Mr Jansa was a Vice-President in GE Capital's structured finance group. He was a manager for the firm's $580 million investment fund focused on emerging market power investments. In this capacity, he analysed, valued and recommended various equity and debt investments and joint ventures in the energy and transport sectors.
Before joining GE Capital in 1995, Mr Jansa was director of financial planning and analysis at Q2 Resource Television. He began his career by spending nine years with Union Pacific Corporation where he became manager of the corporate finance group.
Mr Jansa received a bachelor of business administration degree in accounting from Iowa State University and a master of business administration degree from the London School of Business. He has served on the Board of the Pan African Energy Corporation and currently is on the board of the SOMDIAA Group, a key player in the African food-processing industry.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Group Managing Director
Ohis Ohiwerei is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Notore Chemical Industries Plc (Notore) - an agro-allied, chemicals and infrastructure company, and the premier producer of urea fertilizer in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this capacity, he is responsible for the day-to-day operational and financial management of the company. Mr. Ohiwerei also oversees the enhancement of efficiency levels across the business and improving profitability as well as supporting the development of the growth strategy of the business. He joined the company in 2018 as the Group Deputy Managing Director and Executive Director.
Prior to his appointment at Notore, Mr. Ohiwerei's career was in the financial services industry. He retired from the banking industry after 24 years, as Executive Director at Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, where he was responsible for Commercial Banking and Public Sector, Lagos. Prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer and also an Executive Director at Diamond Bank Plc.
Mr. Ohiwerei holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Benin and a Master's in Business Administration from the same institution. He has attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School and the Advanced Strategic Management program at the IMD Business School in Switzerland.
Job Titles:
- Director of Corporate Business Development & Investments With OCI N.V
Mr. Omar Taha is the Director of Corporate Business Development &Investments with OCI N.V., a world-leading producer and distributor of hydrogen products providing fertilizers, fuels, and feedstock to agricultural, transportation, and industrial customers globally, headquartered in the Netherlands, and listed on Euronext in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Mr. Taha joined OCI in 2012 and oversees OCI N.V.'s corporate business development &investments, and M&A activities. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University College, Dublin and a Master of Science and International Management from CEMS, the Global Alliance in Management.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Chairman of Eroton Exploration & Production Company Limited
Mr. Okoloko is the Chairman of Eroton Exploration &Production Company Limited and also Chairman of Midwestern Oil and Gas Plc. He is a founding partner of the Ocean &Oil/Oando Group and is a former member of the Board of Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.
Onajite Okoloko is the Founder of Notore Chemical Industries Plc (Notore) - an agro-allied, chemicals and infrastructure company, and the premier producer of urea fertilizer in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005, as the founder Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, he assembled a team of investors to acquire the assets of the former National Fertilizer Company of Nigeria (NAFCON) and is a core investor in the consortium that includes Emerging Capital Partners (ECP), a major private equity firm out of Washington, DC, U.S.A and the Orascom Group. He later successfully completed the largest single loan syndication of Nigerian banks, when Notore raised funding amongst 7Nigerian financial institutions.
Ovie Ukiri is a lawyer with combined honors bachelor's degree in Law and Economics from the University of Keele, Staffordshire, England and a Master of Laws degree in Tax from Kings College London. He has over 30 years practice experience at the Nigerian Bar, is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria and a CEDR accredited Mediator.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director of FBNQuest Capital Ltd
Tseyi Hammond is the Managing Director of FBNQuest Capital Ltd, a subsidiary of FBNH Plc, responsible for Alternative Investments. His 20 years' worth of experience in equity and structured products sales and trading in London allowed him to play integral roles in establishing successful sales and trading teams, managing investments as well as building a wide network of relationships with major global and local institutional investors.
Tseyi joined FBNQuest Capital (Formerly FBN Capital) from Marinvest One Fund, a hedge fund, where he was responsible for structuring of directional, volatility, hedging strategies and execution using listed derivatives as well as cash equity trading. Prior to this, he worked for Liquid Capital Securities Ltd, a London based derivatives market maker as a Sales Trader.
Tseyi holds an MSc. in Investment and Finance, Electronic Commerce from Middlesex University, London and a BEng in Engineering with Business Finance from the University College London.
Otivbo Saleh is the Company Secretary of Notore Chemical Industries. She joined the Company in September 2007. She provides advice and…