NKECHI NAECHE- ESEZOBOR—-In accordance with the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) Rule Book, Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc, has announced the appointment of eight new directors to the board.
This is contained in a notice signed by the company Secretary, Rukevwe Falana, to dealing members and investing public that Mr. Shuaibu Abubakar Idris, was appointed Chairman of the Board on 26th January 2022.
He is currently the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Time-Line Consult Limited. He is responsible for providing strategic direction and guidance, managing the day-to-day operation and marketing of clients west coast of Africa and beyond.
Previously, he served as the Deputy Managing Director of Dangote Flour Mills Plc from April 2009 to December 2010 where he was saddled with the responsibility of the overall management of the company and coordination of the Supply Chain, Sales and Marketing, Human Resource, Finance, Quality Control and Corporate Affairs. Prior to becoming Deputy Managing Director,
he served as the Special Assistant to the Group Chief Executive Officer, Dangote Group, Group Treasurer, Executive Director, Sales and Marketing and Group General Manager Human Resources and Administration; from where he amassed several years of professional experiences.
He was an investment and lending banker and rose to senior management and director positions respectively at a Nigerian bank.
Mr. Idris completed the Lagos Business School and the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Programme (AMP) and the Advanced Leadership Programme from George Business School, Cambridge University, UK. He also attended the prestigious National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos, Nigeria.
Efekoha is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc.He is the 40th President of the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA). Prior to this appointment, he was the 49th President & Chairman of the Governing Council of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (2018-2020) and the 22nd Chairman of the Nigerian insurers Association (2016-2018), the umbrella body of all licensed and operating insurance companies in Nigeria. At the continental level, he is the Chairman of the Book Review Committee of the African Insurance Organization.
He has worked with leading insurance brokerage and underwriting firms for a period spanning 1985- 2007. These include but are not limited to Hogg Robinson Nigeria, Glanvill Enthoven & Co. Nigeria Limited, Fountain Insurance Brokers Limited and Consolidated Risk Insurers Plc from 1985 to 2007 during which he held senior executive positions.
He holds a B.Sc. degree in Insurance and an MBA, both from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. A Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institutes of both London and Nigeria, Mr. Efekoha has attended several local and international educational programmes including but not limited to the Chief Executive Programme (CEP-14) of the Lagos Business School; Leading Change &
Organizational Renewal, Private Equity & Venture Capital and Owner/President Management program (OPM 57) of the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA.
He serves as Chairman of the Company’s subsidiaries namely: Hallmark Health Services Limited (a Health Management Organization) and CHI Micro Insurance Limited (Life Assurance).
He is currently the president of the West African Insurance Companies Association (WAICA). He was appointed as a Directors of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on 26th January 2022. Mr. Babatunde Daramola was appointed the Group Chief Finance Officer of Consolidated
Hallmark Holdings Plc on 9th November 2023. He was until this appointment the Executive Director, Finance, Systems & Investment in Consolidated Hallmark Insurance Plc where he played strategic roles in several Corporate Transformation projects undertaken by the Company.
Mr. Daramola is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He is also a Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He graduated from the Lagos State Polytechnic in 1994 with a Higher National Diploma in Insurance and holds the MBA (Finance and Accounting) of the University of Liverpool (U.K).
Tunde has vast working experience spanning Insurance Broking, Underwriting, Banking and Finance.Tunde serves as a Non-Executive Director of Hallmark Health Services Ltd.
He is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School and a member of the Executive and Governing Council of the Lagos Business School Alumni Association (LBSAA).
Prince Ben Onuora joined the Board of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on 9th November 2023. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from the University of Lagos. He has been in commercial law practice for over three decades in leading law firms, including Benon Chambers where he is currently the Managing Partner.
He is an Arbitrator, a Notary Public for Nigeria and a registered legal consultant by the Securities and Exchange Commission. He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) as well as the Institute of Directors where he served as Hon. Legal Adviser anda member of the Governing Council.
He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the loD Centre for Corporate Governance. Prince Onuora is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association, Capital Market Solicitors Association, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) and Negotiation & Conflict Management Group (Founders of the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse).
Dr. Layi Fatona joined the Board of Directors of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on tNovember 2023. He was the Chief Executive officer of Niger Delta Exploration and Production plc, where he pioneered the first and only privately-owned and operated refinery in Nigeria (The Ogbele Mini Refinery). A Petroleum Geologist with more than forty years of oil industry experience. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology at the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) in 1973 and obtained both the Master of Science and Doctorate degrees in Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London.
He started his career as a Review Geologist responsible for regional geological studies in the Niger Delta with The Shell Petroleum Development Company, rising through the ranks in the seven years he was there. He left to join other like minds to start up Geotrex Systems Limited (Petroleum Exploration and Production Consultants) starting as a Senior Consultant and.currently retaining the position of Chairman of the Company.
He holds other board positions across the industry. Layi is a staunch believer in the ability of.indigenous minds to control the narrative of the Nigerian oil and gas industry. He insists that Nigerians can and should increasingly play major roles in exploring, producing and creating additional value for the country and its people from our vast oil and gas reserves.
Dr. Tony Anonyai joined the Board of Directors of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on 9th November 2023. He is a Co-CEO at Planet Capital Limited, an investment barnking group. He has extensive hands-on experience in corporate finance, capital markets, corporate governance. He expertly combines these competencies in advising clients as they seek to transform their organisations and sustainably improve performance. Tony began his career in 1990 with the professional accounting firm of Anjous, Uku, Eweka & Co. (Chartered Accountants) and later worked with Capri-Martins Finance Limited as an Accountant. In 1994, he set up a financial intermediation and advisory firm, Ouec Investment Limited, and in 2005, he founded and became the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Strategy & Arbitrage Limited, a brokerage and dealing member firm of the Nigerian Stock Exchange and one of the legacy companies in Planet Capital Limited
He holds a PhD in International Business (Finance specialisation) from the International School of Management, Paris, and Master of Banking and Finance Degree from the University of Lagos.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, an Associate of the Certified Pension Institute of Nigeria, anda member of the Institute of Directors. He has attended executive and professional development courses at the Lagos Business School, IESE Business School, and Harvard Business School.
Dr. Anonyai serves on the Boards of several organisations, including ATASoftec Limited, Electronic PayPlus Limited, Chateau Royal Real Estate Limited, PlanetCap Asset Management Limited, and Planet Governance Advisory Limited. He is the vice-chairman of the Financial Services & Capital Markets Committee of the Institute of Directors of Nigeria.
Mr. Adegbola Adesina holds an Executive MBA from the INSEAD Business School, as well as a first-Class Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
He has over 19 years of experience covering investment banking, financial and transaction advisory, audit, project, and management accounting that span a diverse range of businesses, including private equity, energy and infrastructure, oilfield services, banking and manufacturing.
During this time, he led, participated in, and managed capital raising (debt and equity) assignments and other forms of financing/ restructuring for infrastructure projects and astructure-based companies on both the buy and sell sides. In the past eight years, he held
senior finance roles across the upstream production and gas processing businesses. He was appointed to the board of Consolidated Hallmark holdings PLC on 9th of November, 2023.
Mrs. Chijioke Ugochukwu non executive director, joined the Board of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on 20th December 2023. Chijioke is a Chartered Director and Fellow of the Institute of Directors, (loD), United Kingdom and of the CloD Nigeria as well as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers Nigeria (CIBN). She has spent well over 30 years in the Board room, became a Director in 2012 and is presently an Independent Director with Access Pensions Limited. In addition, she serves on several committees and councils of the CloD Nigeria, the CIBN and the Lagos Business School (LBS). And is a member of the Board of Governors of the Babington Macauly Seminary.
Before this, she was the Executive Director, Shared Services & Products and Chief Information Officer at Fidelity Bank plc. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B Hons.) degree from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife and Barrister at Law (BL) from the Nigerian Law School. She also a Masters of Business Administration degree from IESE/University de Navarre, Barcelona.
She has attended several Executive Education programs globally at the Institute of Directors UK, the Institute of Management Development (IMD), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Oxford Said Business School, The Wharton School and Columbia Business School amongst others. She also facilitates classes in Business Ethics and Women in Leadership at the Lagos Business School.
