Directors & Officers

Board of Directors

 

Directors' Brief:

Mr. Pierre Vandebeeck, a Belgian, is the Chairman Board of Directors of Presco Plc. He holds degrees in Chemistry from the Higher Institution for Chemistry, Sint Truiden, Belgium and Tropical Agriculture Engineering from Agricultural College, Vilvoorde, Belgium. He started his career in 1969 with Afrifina s.a. and was seconded to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he worked in several capacities in coffee, cocoa, rubber and palm plantations. Responsible for establishing several oil palm estates in Nigeria, Mr. Vandebeeck joined Socfinco s.a. in 1974 to start Socfinco’ Nigerian operations. He worked as Plantation Manager for Adapalm from 1974 to 1978, then at the 10,000 hectare Risopalm oil palm project from 1978 to 1983. In 1983 he became the Director of Operations for Socfinco in Nigeria, responsible for the conception, preparation and implementation of major tree crop programmes for several state governments and private sector organizations. Prior to joining Presco in 1991 as Managing Director, he was Managing Director of Indufina s.a., Luxembourg from 1990 to 1991.He has been Chairman and Managing Director of Siat since 1991 and is a director of several other companies. Mr. Vandebeeck became the Chairman of Presco Plc on 1 January 2010.

Uday Pilani was elected a member of the Board of Directors and appointed Managing Director on 19 November 2010. Until this appointment, he was the Company’s Director of Finance and Controls.
Mr. Pilani was the CEO of Pilsu Nigeria Limited, Kano from 2003 to 2008; he previously worked for Pilani Exports (PEX), Mumbai/Hyderabad, India, Jalwa Event Management, Hyderabad, India and Strategic Stock Brokers Hyderabad, India as Partner. He is a holder of MBA (Finance) and Bachelor of Commerce

HRH (Dr.) Akenzua is the Enogie of Siluko. He is a marketing economist and member of the Nigerian Institute of Management. He was appointed to the Board of Presco Plc in June 1999. He has over the years held directorships in several companies in the public and private sectors, including Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc and Aiico Insurance Plc.

Engr. J.B. Erhuero joined the Board of Presco Plc on 15 July 2004. He was one time Secretary to the Delta State Government where he previously served as head of Service. Before he became the Head of Service to the Delta state Government, he was a Permanent Secretary in the Delta State Civil Service. Engr. Erhuero holds a B.Sc honours degree in mechanical Engineering and a Masters degree in Systems and Manufacturing Engineering amongst others. He is a knight of St. Mulumba (KSM) .

Mr. Osunde is a Chartered Stockbroker and presently the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Finance Company Limited. He holds a HND in Accountancy and a Fellowship of the chartered Institute of Stockbrokers. He is also a council member of the same institute. An experienced capital market operator, he is a council member of The Nigerian Stock Exchange. He is a member of Board of many other Companies. He joined the Board of Presco Plc in May 2003..

Chief Oyaide is an international civil servant cum diplomat, a development and management expert, a rural developer and a farmer. He holds B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in Agriculture and certificates in Advanced Management and environmental Impact assessment respectively. After retiring from the Federal Civil service of Nigeria as Director of Agriculture and rural development, he joined the UN in 1989 and served as Project Controller (African Division) of the International Fund for agricultural development (IAFAD) in Rome, Italy. He was also Deputy Resident Representative of UNDP in Zambia and resident Representative in Swaziland. Chief Oyaide who was appointed to the Board in March in 2003 was an Adviser to Siat Nigeria. 

Mr. Peterside was appointed to the Board in December 2005. Mr. Peterside, a highly experienced banker is the founder pioneer Chief Executive Officer of IBTC Limited. He is an economist by training, with a B.Sc in Economics from The City University, London and an M.Sc from The London School of Economics and Political Science. He was the Chairman of the Committee on corporate Governance for Public Companies in Nigeria. He is a director of the Nigerian Economic summit Group and a member of the Private Sector Advisory Board of the Word Bank. He is currently the Chairman, Board of Directors of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc..

Dr. Mustafa is a renowned Agriculturist who specialized in Plant Breeding and Agronomy.
He had served the Federal Republic of Nigeria in various capacities including Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Natural Resources between 1990 and 1992, Honourable Minister of Defence between 2008 and 2009 and Minister of Interior between 2009 and 2010. He previously held the position of Head, Agricultural Projects Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, where he was the Overseer of the ADPs nationwide. He holds a B sc honours and Ph D from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
 

 Mr Isaac ona is the Company Secretary. He joined the Company in November 2003 and became the substantive Company Secretary in July 2005. Mr Ona had served in the Nigerian Air Force where he held the position of Group Finance officer for nearly ten years. He subsequently joined the Universal Investment and Development Company Plc as Company Secretary, and became the Managing Director of the Company, a position he held for six years until the Edo state Government ceded the Company to the Delta state Government. Mr Ona is a barrister, and holds the LLB (Hons) degree of the University of Benin, and a call to the Nigerian Bar. He also holds MA Business Law from the London Metropolitan University, and previously studied Financial Managerial Controls at the University of Southampton in England. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (FCIS) and an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Arbitrators of Nigeria (ACIArb. (Nig)