Ellah Lakes - Building Sustainable Agribusinesses.
Executive Team
Joe Attueyi - Chairman Of The Board
Joe Attueyi is a the Chairman of the Board of Ellah Lakes Plc. He is currently the President of the Nigeria Business Unit for MRI Management Company LLP, a U.K. oil and gas investment company focused on the Africa energy scene. Prior to that, between 2007 and 2017 he was CEO of DWC E & P Company Limited an indigenous Nigerian energy company backed by Private Equity firm Africa Capital Alliance and between 2004 to 2007, he was the Managing Director of Shebah Exploration and Production Company Limited.
Before his entrepreneurial ventures, Joe worked as General Manager Production in Nigeria, for the International Oil Company ConocoPhillips where he worked for 10years between 1992 and 2002.
Joe is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants; an alumnus of University of Nigeria (1984), JMW Europe’s Leader of The Future Program (2001) and Harvard Business School (GMP program 2006).
Paul Farrer - Deputy Managing Director
Paul Farrer is the Deputy Managing Director of Ellah Lakes Plc. Mr Farrer is responsible for the operational growth and development of the Company, and the expansion of Ellah Lakes.
Prior to this appointment, Paul Farrer was the Country Manager for Innscor International, and before then, he was the Group Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer of Food Concepts Plc.
His last Seven (7) Years in Nigerian Private sector, have been spent as the CEO of Nascon Allied Industries PLC, leading a team of over 600 staff. NASCON Allied Industries Plc. is also listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
Chuka Mordi - Chief Executive Officer
Chuka has over 20 years’ experience spanning investment management, financial advisory and corporate leadership, acquired in Nigeria and the United Kingdom.
Chuka was a founding partner of CBO Capital and the former Head of Infrastructure Financing at First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Lagos. He began his career at SBC Warburg and subsequently worked as an Equities Analyst for Hardman & Co. Ltd. where he focused on UK AIM stocks, and subsequently, European equities at Société Générale Asset Management (SGAM).
At CBO, Chuka was jointly responsible for servicing over 50 client mandates, with a transaction value in excess of $2bn, whilst deploying over $50 million in the capital as a principal investor. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and has a B.A. Philosophy from Kings College, University of London.
Chijioke Dozie - Director
Chijioke Dozie is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Carbon, a leading online financial services platform. Chijioke was a co-founder of Kaizen Venture Partners (KVP), an investor across Africa with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and prior to that, worked with Zephyr Management LP in New York. He has started and led several companies across Africa.
Chijioke’s experience spans across private equity, principal investing, venture capital, entrepreneurship and management.
Chijioke holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MSc in Finance from the University of Reading and a BA Economics from the University of East Anglia.
Jamie Rixton - Chief Agronomist
Jamie has over 35 years’ relevant industry and corporate leadership experience acquired across 22 African countries and the United Kingdom. He specializes in mechanized farming of cash crops and has led mechanization of operations of a single farm in excess of 30,000 hectares. He held leadership positions in leading multinational corporations including Massey Ferguson, Challenger, Valtra Africa, John Deere & Co., and Bara Group.
Jamie has a Bachelors from the University of Reading.
Nnenna Onyewuchi - Director
Nnenna Onyewuchi is a founding partner of Yellow Brick Road, & Blackbox, and has over Fifteen (15) Years of experience in Strategic marketing communications. Starting her career at McCann Erickson, New York, she managed business development activities for the New York office and coordinating offices across the network for global pitches, before moving into Strategic Planning, where she rose to the position of Vice President.
While at McCann, she helped conceive Tag Ideation, a lifestyle marketing practice group, developing a set of proprietary research tools and co-designing a proprietary branding model. She returned to Nigeria in 2004 and worked in experiential marketing, production and pay-TV before returning to advertising in 2007 when she joined ZK Advertsing as Director of Strategy. In 2011, Nnenna and her partners, in an MBO, founded Yellow Brick Road, growing it into one of Nigeria’s most respected agencies.
Oladipupo Ogunbiyii - Chief Financial Officer
Dipo started his career in Finance as an Investment analyst at FCMB Capital Markets, and subsequently as an Associate in Investment Banking at UBA Capital Limited, and Renaissance Capital.
He spent 5 years at FBN Quest, where he rose to become the Head of Equity Capital Markets before moving to Eunisell Limited where he served as the interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Dipo was an Executive Director, Investment Banking at First Ally, a leading, independent financial services group, before taking up the role as CFO of Ellah Lakes Plc.
Dipo has a First Degree from Lagos State University, and an Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Emmanuel Jakpa Esq. - Director
Barrister Emmanuel Jakpa is the Principal Partner at BlackRock Law Chambers, working out of Warri. He is legal practitioner with expertise in Corporate, Commercial, & Litigation law practice areas with over 20 years of experience in the Maritime & Oil & Gas sectors.
He is the current Chairman of Warri Economic Summit Group, and a Director at Kalm Marine & Petroleum Services Limited an upstream Exploration and production company.
Emmanuel holds a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) from the University of Benin and a BL from the Nigerian Law School.
Osaro Oyegun - Director
Osaro Oyegun has over 20 years of experience in the Land, Infrastructure & property space in Nigeria. She is an expert on Land Management, & physical Infrastructure, and has worked for several multinational corporations across West Africa, including Airtel, MTN, & the American Tower Company.
She has a B.Sc from the University of Lagos, and an M.Sc. in Facility and Environment Management from the University College London (UCL)
Maxwell Oko - Director
Maxwell Oko currently the CEO of Eraskorp Nigeria Limited (ENL), Logistics services provider in the Oil & Gas and Marine sectors of the Nigerian economy holds a B. Tech in Architecture from the Rivers State University of Science and Technology and a PGD in Architecture from the University of Jos.
He was a former Special Assistant to the Honourable Minister of Energy & Chairman of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, and subsequently, Commissioner of Energy as in Bayelsa State.
He has a strong track record of performance and outstanding capital project delivery. In his role as the Commissioner of Energy, he designed and implemented the Bayelsa State Energy Master Plan, oversaw the development and financing of the state’s IPP projects, and kick-started the state’s Rural Electrification Program.
He has attended various courses, seminars and workshops such as Finance for Non-Finance Executives, EPC Contracts for the Energy Industry, Natural Gas Value Chain as well as Public-Private Partnerships. He is on the Boards of Oloibiri Petroleum Development & Exploration Limited and Secure Records Management Solutions.
Dr. Evans Gbugbemi Jakpa - Director
He has a BSc, Psychology and MA in International Business and Marketing from London Metropolitan University. Has over 10 years’ experience in oil & gas and senior management and leadership roles with a special talent for negotiating solutions to complex situations. Skilled at establishing and maintaining strategy partnership to generate essential business opportunities.
He was the General Manager Business Development at Energy Equity Resources (EER) a London based Exploration and production company, and then worked for Delta State, on Oil & Gas development. He worked on a $45m of direct foreign investment into the state for the acquisition, restructuring & transformation of a 17 acre, moribund state owned timber company, into a 10,000 bpd modular refinery.