By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Nigeria Plc Friday announced the resignation of Olusegun Osunkeye as chairman of the board of the company.
The company said its board of directors met on March 07, 2014 and accepted a notice of resignation and retirement of Osunkeye from its board.
GSK Nigeria says Osunkeye’s resignation takes effect from the conclusion of its next annual general meeting (AGM) holding on June 11, 2014.
Also, the drug maker appointed Chinedum Okereke as a director of the company effective March 16, 2014.
According to GSK Nigeria, Okereke holds a B.Sc. in Microbiology from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1987, before obtaining M.Sc. in Public Health/Environment Microbiology (1999) and a Diploma Certificate in Chemical Engineering (1996) all from the University of Benin. He also has an MBA from the Pan African University (Lagos Business School) in 2008.
He stared his professional career with Dubic Brewery Aba as Training and Technical Development Manager at the Company’s Lagos Office (December 1997 – January 2001) and became the Project Co-ordinator of the Company from February 2001 – February 2003.
Okereke joined Guinness Nigeria Plc as a Continuous Improvement Manager (Lagos Brewery Office) -(February 2003 – March 2004), charged with the responsibilities of facilitating continuous improvement group and coach other facilitators to deliver QCDSM Stretch targets using various WCM and CI tools (Process Controls, Performance Measurement, Root Cause Analysis, FPS, Ishikawa, Pareto, 5S, Quick Changeovers among other responsibilities. In March 2004 – December 2005, he became the Packaging Manager, Lagos Brewery while from January 2006 to April 2006 he was the Ag Head of Logistics and Supply Planning.
Thereafter, he worked with Globacom Limited, Recharge Card Manufacturing and Supply Chain/Warehousing Operations as a General Manager (March 2006 – August 2006) and from August 2006 to December 2008, he joined Coca-Cola Nigeria and Equatorial Africa Limited (comprising ten African Countries, Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Cape Verde and Sao Tome & Principle) as Operations Manager while from January 2009 to June 2006, he was the Head, Business Planning & Strategy.
On joining GSK Nigeria, he became the Site Director (Nigeria & Anglophone West Africa) – (July 2009 – March 2013) and from March 2013 to September 2013, he was the West African/African Geo Expansion Lead.
Okereke has an Associate Membership Certificate from the Institute of Brewing, London (1995), a Diploma Master Brewer Certificate from the same Institute and was the Regional Supply Chain Head, Africa in GlaxoSmithKline Plc prior to this appointment.
