UACN APPOINTS NEW CHAIRMAN, DIRECTOR

UAC of Nigeria (UACN) Plc announces the appointments of Mr Dan Agbor as the new chairman of the board of directors of the conglomerate and Engineer Okechukwu Mbonu as a non – executive director.

The two appointments followed the resignation of the former chairman, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma and a non-executive director, Dr Okechukwu Enelamah, who were both recently appointed Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Agbor, 55, is the managing partner of one of the leading commercial law firms in the country – Udo Udoma & Bello-Osagie. A seasoned lawyer, Agbor, who joined the firm in September 1990 until date, has had a distinguished practice in areas covering banking, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, finance, tax, and the laws relating to foreign investment.

A former company secretary/legal adviser of Gulf Bank of Nigeria Limited, he worked variously at the corporate finance and legal departments of Citibank and as a Solicitor in the firm of Ajumogobia, Okeke & Oyebode, a Lagos-based firm of legal practitioners engaged in the general commercial practice of law.

Agbor currently serves on the board of FSDH Securities Limited, FSDH Merchant Bank Limited; Pensions Alliance Limited and Swift Network Services Limited.

Mbonu is a registered engineer, a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (FNSE), a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow of the Sierra Leone Institute of Engineers. He is a Founding Partner of Execution Edge Limited, a company noted for the provision of management advisory services to medium and large scale business enterprises.

Mbonu worked with Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Heineken International and PricewaterhouseCoopers. While at Nigerian Breweries, he was appointed the Human Resource Director in 1999 and the Customer Service Director in 2001.

In March 2005, he was posted to Heineken International and then to Sierra Leone Brewery Limited, Freetown as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the company.

Mbonu attended Mayflower School, Ikenne where he obtained his West African School Certificate (WASC) with seven alpha distinctions and was awarded a Shell-BP Overseas scholarship to study Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester, UK, where he graduated in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree, with first class honours and four academic prizes.

In 1978, on completion of his National Youth Service with Shell-BP, he was awarded the prestigious Manchester University Noel Philip Bedson Research Scholarship which in 1982 led to the award of a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manchester University, UK.

As part of his career development, Mbonu attended several local and international learning events including courses at Insead France; London School of Economics, UK; Stanford USA; Wharton School USA; IMD Switzerland and Heineken University, The Netherlands.


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