Debo Adebajo is Vice-President, Technical. Debo is an experienced petroleum engineer, with over 30 years of industry exposure, spanning oil and gas field development, project execution, strategy, and portfolio management. He previously worked in various Shell companies in Nigeria, Brunei and the Netherlands, occupying senior technical and management roles.
Mr. Chikezie Nwosu is an experienced senior executive with over 30 years local and international experience in the energy industry with demonstrated expertise in the management of upstream oil & gas projects, new business development, divestments and acquisitions, midstream gas, downstream refining and renewable energy strategies.
Mr. Nwosu has worked with leading international oil and gas services and E&P companies including Western Atlas (now Baker Atlas) for 5 years, Regional Discipline Manager, Shell Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa and International (16 years), Deputy Managing Director (Technical), SINOPEC-Addax Petroleum Nigeria (6 years), EVP Business Development, Tolea Energy B.V. (since 2019) and, recently, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Waltersmith (4 years). He has also served on the Boards of Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria Limited (APDNL), Addax Petroleum Exploration Nigeria Limited (APENL), Tolea B.V. The Netherlands, Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited and Waltersmith Refining & Petrochemical Company Limited.
Mr. Nwosu is a well regarded Energy Resource development and Energy policy expert and contributed to the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) as a representative of the Oil Producers Trade Section to the Hon. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources’ Presidency team on the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in 2017 and later as a member of the Independent Petroleum Producers Group’s (IPPG) advocacy team on the PIB from 2019 to 2021.
Mr. Nwosu is a regular key note speaker, panelist and moderator in national and international fora including the Nigeria International Petroleum Summit (later the Nigeria International Energy Summit 2019 to date), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (Resource Management Week 2021: A New Social Contract on Natural Resources), PMI Africa Conference 2022, SPE Nigerian Annual International Conference and Exhibition, Renewable Energy Association of Nigeria Conferences, Shell International Women’s Day, Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry Seminars etc.
In 2021, Mr. Nwosu was recognized as the Nigerian Oil & Gas CEO of the Year (Integrated) by the reputable BusinessDay of Nigeria and has been profiled by Forbes Africa,, Africa Oil & Gas magazine, Foreign Investment Network UK, The Energy Year, The Business Year and many other Energy and Investment magazines.
Mr. Nwosu retired from Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited in March 2023 after delivering the first 5,000 bopd modular refinery in Nigeria and leading the acquisition of the 100MMboe Block EG23 in Equatorial Guinea in 2020 (EGRONDA 2019 bid round) and the 20MMbbl Assa marginal field in 2021, setting the company on its growth trajectory. In addition, he developed the Renewable Energy and Sustainability strategies for Waltersmith culminating in the Eco Industrial Park project with UNIDO to manufacture Solar PV cells and Blue Hydrogen projects in support of the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy for industrial use..
He holds a 1983 B.Sc (First Class Hons) in Engineering Physics (Nuclear Engineering Science) from the University of Ife, a 1986 M.Sc (with Distinction) in Physics (Theoretical Nuclear Physics) from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and is a member of several professional organizations including the Society of Petroleum Engineers (2017/2018 SPE Nigeria Council Chairman), member SPE Nigeria Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Board of SISL (SPENC Integrated Services Limited), member Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) and currently serves on the Advisory Committee to the Chairman of Heirs Energies Limited.
Chiugo Ndubisi is responsible for providing strategic oversight of investment and integration across Heirs Holdings’ investment portfolio. Chiugo is an accomplished financial services professional, with over 25 years of experience in banking and finance. Prior to joining Heirs Holdings, he served as an executive director at the United Bank of Africa Plc (UBA), overseeing Treasury and International Banking. He was also responsible for the Group’s international subsidiaries: UBA America; UBA UK; UBA France; and UBA Dubai. At UBA, his previous roles included Group Chief Operating Officer and Group Executive, Transformation & Resources. Chiugo has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees, Central Bank of Nigeria Banking Industry Resolution Trust Fund, as well as member of the Audit Committee of the Nigeria Interbank Settlement Systems (NIBSS). He is an alumnus of the Wharton Business School, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
Dr Awele V. Elumelu oversees the healthcare investments in the Heirs Holdings’ portfolio. She holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from the University of Benin.
Her experience as a medical doctor includes general medical practice and emergency medicine. In Nigeria, Dr Elumelu has worked with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital and in the UK, with Grantham and District Hospital, Grantham. In November 2020, she was appointed to the Yale Institute for Global Health Advisory Board.
In January 2018, Dr Elumelu was appointed as the Champion for immunisation in Africa by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI).
Samuel Nwanze is an accomplished executive with a remarkable track record in finance, investments, and strategic leadership. As the Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer at Heirs Energies Limited, Samuel is at the forefront of driving growth and innovation within the organisation. His expertise extends to serving as the Chief Investment Officer for the Heirs Holdings Group.
Osayande Igiehon is the Chief Executive Officer of Heirs Energies. Prior to joining Heirs Energies, Osayande was Vice-President at Royal Dutch Shell (Shell), in the Hague, Netherlands. He has over twenty-seven years of experience and expertise in the Oil and Gas sector. He held a series of senior management positions in Shell and previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Shell Gabon, where he led the successful turnaround of the operational and financial performance.
Emmanuel Nnorom is currently a Non-Executive Directors at Heirs Energies. Emmanuel also the Group Chief Executive Officer of Heirs Holdings Limited. Before this, he was the President/CEO of Transnational Corporation Plc, overseeing all the Transcorp businesses.
He has held senior positions as the Executive Director at UBA and Managing Director of UBA Africa, overseeing United Bank for Africa’s operations outside Nigeria and executing corporate strategy in 18 African countries. His other senior roles within UBA included Group COO UBA, followed by his appointment as UBA’s Group CFO, with responsibility for Finance and Risk.
Emmanuel is qualified as a chartered accountant and brings over 3 decades of professional experience in the corporate and financial sectors, working with publicly listed companies. He is an alumnus of Oxford University’s Templeton College, and a Prize winner and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria.
Tony O. Elumelu is an African leading investor and philanthropist.
He is the Founder and Chairman of Heirs Holdings, his family owned investment company committed to improving lives and transforming Africa, through longterm investments in strategic sectors of the African economy, including financial services, hospitality, power, energy, technology and healthcare.
Tony is the Chairman of pan-African financial services group, the United Bank for Africa (UBA), which operates in 20 countries across Africa, the United Kingdom, France, the UAE and is the only African bank with a commercial deposit taking presence in the United States. UBA provides corporate,
commercial, SME and consumer banking services to more than 35 million customers globally. He also chairs Nigeria’s largest quoted conglomerate, Transcorp whose subsidiaries include Transcorp Power, one of the leading producers of electricity in Nigeria and Transcorp Hotels Plc, Nigeria’s foremost
hospitality brand.
Tony is the most prominent champion of entrepreneurship in Africa. In 2010, he created The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the leading philanthropy empowering a new generation of African entrepreneurs, catalysing economic growth, driving poverty eradication and driving job creation across all 54 African countries. Since inception, the Foundation’s flagship programme has identified and catalysed over 18,000 entrepreneurs and created a digital ecosystem of over one million Africans, as part of a ten year US$100m commitment to fund, mentor and train young Africans.
Tony’s businesses and the Foundation are inspired by his economic philosophy of Africapitalism, which positions the private sector, and most importantly entrepreneurs, as the catalyst for the social and economic development of the African continent.
In 2020, in recognition of his business leadership and economic empowerment of young African entrepreneurs, Tony was named in the TIME100 Most Influential People in the World, and recognised with Belgium’s oldest and highest royal order.
Heirs Energies is Africa’s largest, indigenous owned, energy company, headquartered in Nigeria and led by a board and management team with significant regional and global experience in production, exploration, and value creation in the resources sector. Heirs Energies is the sole operator of OML 17, in Nigeria’s Niger Delta.
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