Principal Officers

Tunde has had extensive experience in engineering and project management, consulting, banking and information technology / systems management. His experience is varied across organization type and size: government agencies, global organizations, as well as medium sized and small organizations.

His career is built on his background as an Engineer who has formalized his management competencies by earning an MBA from the Cranfield University School of Management, United Kingdom. He has had extensive international exposure, having lived, schooled and worked in Africa, Europe and North America.

He has excellent communication and interpersonal skills, which is attested to, his roles as a consultant and training facilitator for the Project Management Training Institute in Troy, Michigan, U.S.A. serving corporations such as Alcatel, RIM and CIBC on various Project Management facilitation projects.

Tunde has also trained and facilitated courses and educational programs at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, University of Calgary and Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Canada.

Tunde is a Project Management Institute certified Project Manager and a member of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association.

He earned his Ph.D., specializing in complex public infrastructure projects at the Department of Civil Engineering, (Project Management Specialization) at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

He consults in dynamic project risk and cost management of mega projects in the oil, gas, public infrastructure and construction services industries.

Akeeb is a first-class Civil Engineering graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University who developed his career through earning additional competencies in Accounting, Finance and Management.

He recently retired as the Managing Director of Shell Nig. Closed Pension Fund Administrator Ltd (SNCPFA) where he was accountable and responsible to the Board, for both the strategic and tactical leadership of SNCPFA, protecting and growing the circa $2bln assets of the Fund. During his tenure, he grew the fund size three-fold over a period of 8 years and doubled the Funding cover by end 2023.

A board level business leader with strong ethical bias, his career responsibilities have included Coaching, Mentoring, and imparting his deep knowledge & skills in the functional areas of Project Management, Accounting, Finance, IT Management, Investments and Asset Management developed over a period of circa 30 years at the Shell Petroleum Development Company.

His leadership roles across the Oil & Gas industry have included; Finance Manager, Africa Projects (Shell Upstream), Regional Finance Projects Manager (SPDC, Nigeria), JV Finance Liaison Manager (SPDC, Nigeria), Team Leader, Warri Clean Up Team (SPDC, Nigeria).