By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Rak Unity Petroleum Plc on Wednesday announced the appointment of Aderonke Olayemi Onadeko and Morati Adedoyi-Adeyinka as directors of the company with immediate effect subject to ratification of shareholders at its next Annual General Meeting, the company said in an issuer’s announcement to the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Rak Unity Petroleum said the appointment came on the heels of its board of directors meeting held January 28, 2015.
According to the firm, Onadeko is a seasoned business woman with over 23 years’ experience in the area of oil and gas operations, trading and marketing, and management. She is the principal consultant at DRNL Consult Limited, UK and Delt-R Company Limited, Nigeria. She has acted as country director and in-country representative for BNP Paribas in Nigeria since 2005. She advices BNP Paribas and represents the bank’s entire service offering, specifically Corporate & Investment Banking, Asset Management and Wealth Management.
The company says Onadeko acts as an independent consultant of FOSTER in Nigeria (Facility for Oil Sector Transparency and Accountability) an initiative of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and as an agent for international clients in the energy, power and oil and gas and telecommunication sectors.
She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Resource Development Food Science & Technology from the University of Rhode Island, USA and her MBA from Durham University’s Business in the United Kingdom and the China-Europe International Business School, Shanghai (CEIBS), China.
She is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School (The Pan African University) and obtained post graduating training at Oxford University’s College of Petroleum and Energy Studies and participated in executive education courses at the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, England.
Also, Onadeko is a Fellow of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Leadership Program and has received numerous national awards for her contribution to entrepreneurship and business development.
She is on the board of several companies with interest in Agriculture, Food and Beverage Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Education and human capacity development as well as in the Oil and gas sector.
On her part AdedoyinAdeyinka obtained a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Lagos in 1991. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Harvard University, Boston USA, where she obtained a diploma in General Management in 2008. She has had over 11 years’ experience as a Chartered Accountant since she qualified under the auspices of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and has functioned in varying capacities in the accounting profession for a number of reputable organisations.
Rak Unity Petroleum says she cut her teeth in the financial world with Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm, now PricewaterCoopers (PWC), where she worked from 1991 to 1995 as a trainee accountant and between 1995 and 1997 she had a brief stint with International Management & Services as an office manager, overseeing the finance department and carrying out general administration of the firm.
From 1998 to 2001 she worked as an accountant with KLM before joining Sahara Group in 2002 where she worked as finance manager, rising to the position of Group Treasurer in 2006 and was subsequently appointed CEO of the Group’s trading arm 2009.
Adedoyin-Adeyinka has participated in several other private business development ventures in the oil and gas industry.
