By InvestAdvocate

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Brewer, Champion Breweries Plc on Friday named Samson Aigbedo and Helen Umanah as new directors of the company.

The beer maker in an issuers announcement with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) said the appointments of the duo is coming on the heels of the resignation of Didier Francis Martial Leleu as a director of the company effective December 3, 2015.

Champion Breweries says Aigbedo: Holds a degree in Biochemistry from University of IIorin, Nigeria and started his professional career with Nigerian Breweries Plc, Ibadan in 1993 as a brewer in charge of Bottling and has spent over twenty years in the same company occupying various positions.

He was the head of Brewery Operations at the company’s headquarters in Lagos before this appointment.

On her part, Umanah holds diploma both in English and in Secretarial Studies (London). She is a member of the Incorporated Phonographic Society (IPS), London. She started her working career in London as a secretary at the British Petroleum (formerly African Petroleum) from 1971 to 1975 before becoming the personal assistant to head of service of the United Kingdom, 1975 to 1980.

The beer producer said Umanah was also the confidential secretary to the deputy high commissioner, Nigerian High Commission, London from 1980 to 1984.

According to the company, back in Nigeria, she worked as the executive secretary to the project manager of Harbour Works (Nigeria) Limited, personal assistant to the chairman Niger Holdings Limited and the executive secretary to the chairman/managing director of the defunct ABC Merchant Bank Nigeria Limited.

She has been on the Audit Committee of Champion Breweries as shareholders’ representative from 2011 till date and was the MD/CEO, A-Hani Ventures Limited (Contractors to Exxon Mobil in Eket, Akwa Ibom State, Shell, NAFCON and NNPC).