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Chuks Udo Okonta
The Chairman LASACO Assurance Plc, Edward Akin Leigh, has passed
on at the age of 65 on Monday November 4, the company has said.
A statement from the company said he was an administrator,
oil & gas and business management consultant.
Leigh, it was learnt, had his education at the Methodist
Boys’ High School and King’s College, Lagos from 1961 to 1967; and graduated
from University of Ibadan, Oyo State in 1971. He also attended Graduate School
of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
where he obtained MBA in 1974.
He earned several
academic and professional honours and awards over the years. He was a John F.
Kennedy scholar at Ibadan from 1968 to 1971; a Fulbright-Hays scholar at
Wisconsin from 1972 to 1974; National Young Manager of the Year (1975) in
addition to holding several leadership positions and appointments at both
school and college.
His work experience spanned over 23 years with Mobil Nigeria
including extensive tours of duty and several training developmental
attachments with Mobil affiliates and companies in Africa, Europe and USA
during which he held a variety of key management and senior executive positions
in supply and distribution, planning, logistics, and coordination, downstream
engineering and operations, and marketing. He voluntarily retired as
General Manager, Operations, Mobil, in early 1994 to organise his own firm,
Petroleigh O. G. C. International Limited, an Oil and Gas coastal bunkering and
marine support services company with operational bases in Lagos, Warri and Port
Harcourt.
His other
professional and business activities included Group Managing Directorship of
Services and Materials Management Company Limited (SMMC Group), a multi-faceted
business and project management consultancy and general services company, as
well as directorships in Rotoy Private School, Lekki.
He was a member of several professional, social and
recreational clubs and associations: Institute of Directors, Nigeria; American
Management Association; Rotary Club International (Paul Harris Fellow and Past
Rotarian President); Lagos Motor Boat Club; Ikoyi Club 1938; Yoruba Tennis
Club, Alumni Associations of the University of Ibadan and University of
Wisconsin, U.S.A; Honorary Citizen – Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.A., Executive
Officer, Lagos State Scouts Council and others.
Leigh’s professional experience, special skills and areas of
specialisation include Petroleum Economics and Financials; Transformational
Strategy, Profit Optimisation, Change Management, Business Modeling Processes,
Confidence Building, Business and Management Policies and Practices in Emerging
Economies.
His over three decades of the highlighted multidisciplinary
professional experience and skills have frequently been called upon to work as
a consultant, member, resource person, policy adviser and analysts on various
government and private sector projects on indigenous participation in petroleum
liquids transportation; managing in a regulated economy; crisis management;
creative problem solving; building a winning team; strategy formulation and
others.
He held traditional
titles of “Baaloro of Itoku” and “Asiwaju Gbadeniyi of Egba Land”.
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