Board Members
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BOARD MEMBERS
Meet our Management Team
Eddie A Efekoha
Group CEO
Mr. Eddie A. Efekoha is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc. He was the immediate past Managing Director/CEO of Consolidated Hallmark Insurance and serves as Chairman of the Holding Company's subsidiaries namely: Hallmark Finance Company Limited (a CBN licensed Finance company), Hallmark Health Services Limited (a Health Management Organization) and CHI Micro Insurance Limited (Life Assurance).
Babatunde Daramola
Group CFO
Mr Babatunde is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and 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.). Mr. Daramola has vast working experience spanning Insurance Broking, Underwriting and Banking.
Dr. Layi Fatona
Non Executive Director
Dr. Layi Fatona joined the Board of Directors of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on 9th November 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. Anthony Anonyai
Non Executive Director
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 banking 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, and a 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.
Chijioke Ugochukwu
Executive Director
Mrs. Chijioke Ugochukwu joined the Board of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on 20th December 2023. Chijioke is a Chartered Director and Fellow of the Institute of Directors (IoD), United Kingdom and of the CIoD 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 CIoD 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 holds 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.
Idris A. Shuaibu
Non Executive Director(Chairman)
Mr. Shuaibu Abubakar Idris was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc 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 across the 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.
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).
Sunny Obidegwu
Chief Sunny Chukwudi Obidegwu joined the Board of Directors of
Consolidated Hallmark Holdings Plc on 29th April 2024. He
graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and obtained his
Masters degree in Managerial Accounting from the University of
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. He is a former banker and former
revenue officer in the State of Connecticut, U.S.A., and currently
the Managing Director of Sunthel Trust Ltd., a company that is
involved in integrated financial management and consultancy.
He has served on the Board of several companies including
Eastern Bulkcem Co Ltd., Cement Company of Nigeria Ltd.,
Consolidated Hallmark Insurance Plc., Hallmark Finance
Company Limited formerly known as Grand Treasurers Limited,
Transglobe Finance and Investment Co. Ltd., and Obodoukwu
Microfinance Bank Ltd.
He has also featured in several key capital
market transactions in Nigeria including the financial and
corporate restructuring of Cement Company of Nigeria, Nkalagu,
Ebonyi State, the recapitalization of Broad Bank of Nigeria Ltd,
and the Successful merger of Fidelity Bank Plc.