Leadership Team
Day by day activities are determined by the Management Staff drawn from different facets of the society. The Management staff are result oriented in their various places of assignment.
Chidi Egonu is an exceptionally experienced professional and Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, with HND in Accounting and MBA from ESUT Business School. His industry career started in 1994 as member of a high-performance team focused on company-wide Process Improvement program in Texaco and grew to Treasury Accountant and Region Accountant for South East Nigeria operations. At the turn of the millennium, he Joined BJ Services Nigeria Limited / BJ Pumping SA., where he held the roles of Internal Auditor and later country Senior Finance Manager, including heavy interface with Europe and Africa Region office in Aberdeen. After a brief stint with MTech Plc. as Finance Director, he joined South Atlantic Petroleum Limited (SAPETRO) in 2009 building a best in class finance function in the role of Financial Controller, at a time the company achieved First Oil, from where he moved to Energia in 2018.
Bashorun is the Chief Operating Officer for Energia Limited.
He brings unmatched upstream oil and gas production experience spanning over 24 years. He is recognized for his transformative leadership, strategic vision, and operational excellence. He has a proven track record in orchestrating company-wide operational overhauls, implementing data-driven decision-making processes and managing cross-functional teams.
His technical capability has left a lasting impact both locally and globally, spanning Nigeria, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Ireland, Oman, Cameroon, and Gabon. He has worked for respected, prestigious companies like Shell Petroleum Development Company, spanning a variety of roles and geographical areas. At Sahara Upstream, one of his major achievements during his supervision of OML 11 & OML 18 assets, was to stabilize and significant deliver business values. This is a testament to his skillful leadership and well-grounded knowledge in asset management.
Bashorun is a prime example of the combination of academic excellence with practical experience. He holds an Executive MBA from IE Business School, Madrid, Spain, in addition to a B.Sc. in Mathematics. He is also a scholar from the Shell Intensive Training Program (SITP) for Graduates. As part of his unquenchable thirst for knowledge, he has completed numerous executive-education courses at prestigious top business schools, such as; London Business School, Yale Business School, Northwestern Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford Business School, Wharton Online Business School, and Harvard Online Business School.
Yemi is a finance professional with over 25 years of experience in accounting, business finance and strategic leadership. Before joining Energia Limited, Yemi has held several positions including CFO at Pagatech Limited, Director of Finance at Vanderlande Industries, Finance Manager at Friesland Campina, Group Risk and Control at Oando Plc and Manager at PwC.
Yemi has extensive experience in financial reporting, financial analysis, financial accounting, strategy, auditing, business partnering, process improvement and control optimization.
Yemi is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Lagos. She is a Certified Systems Auditor and has completed an executive program at Hult International Business School.
Onome Olugbesan is the General Manager, Legal and Supply Chain for Energia Limited.
Onome is a business leader with over 17 years’ functional and corporate experience spanning brownfield and greenfield assets in land, swamp and shallow offshore locations across several commercial constructs including joint ventures, sole risks, IOC, Nigerian Independent and marginal field organisations.
Her business and commercial contributions traverse functions not limited to External & Government Affairs, Legal and Supply Chain Management. She has set up processes and systems to optimize and sustain value in start-up as well as mature organisations.
She is a Lawyer, a member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Arbitrators UK, and Chartered member of Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) UK.
Tope Daramola is the Head, HR & Corporate Services for Energia Limited.
With over 16 years of experience in Human Resources, Business Operations, Business Management, Business Strategy, Sales, and Financial Services, Tope is a result-focused leader. His experience has enabled him to deliver talent acquisition, retention, and motivation solutions that help companies fully harness employee potential. He is dedicated to creating robust corporate cultures that promote continuous business growth and cultivate loyalty.
Before joining Energia, Tope was the HR Manager Rewards, Policy & ER at Heirs Energies where He was responsible for entrenching the Heirs Energies culture post-acquisition of OML 17 asset from Shell. Before Heirs Energies, He was Head, Talent Management & Development at OVH Energies (now NNPC Retail), where He successfully implemented several people-oriented initiatives aimed at improving employee performance, increasing staff retention & enhancing organizational performance.
Tope holds a First-Class Honors Degree in Botany from the University of Lagos, and an MBA from Warwick Business School. He is a member of both the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria (CIPMN). He possesses certifications from notable institutions like IE Business School and Harvard Business School.
Engr. Anthony Odogbo is the Senior Asset Operations Manager of Energia Limited who joined the company in January 2016. He had close to two decades of Oil and Gas industry experience in various positions in engineering, operations, maintenance, joint interest, projects; acquired various leadership qualifications both local and international, and helped champion several key company initiatives. He started his career as a young engineer in Global Gas & Refining Limited, later joined the Shell Petroleum Development Company under Netcodietsmann on the Obigbo Node Area. He joined Seven Exploration and Production Company in November 2012 and manages the South-East Operations of the company on various capacities. He has HND in Mineral Resources Engineering, B.Tech in Chemical Engineering and Executive Master’s in Project Management, Leicester United Kingdom. He is affiliated to several professional bodies including the member of Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE), Member Nigeria Institute of Safety Professionals (NISP), Member Nigeria Gas Association (NGA), member Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Member British Project Professional Society (BPPS) and Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).