2011 Speakers

 

KEYNOTE

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala is currently the Minister of Finance for the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Prior to this appointment, she was the Managing Director of World Bank (October 2007 – July 2011) and has also held the position of a Finance Minister and Foreign Minister of Nigeria, between 2003 and 2006. She is notable for being the first woman to hold either of those positions. During her tenure as finance minister she led the Nigerian team that struck a deal with the Paris Club, a group of bilateral creditors, to pay a portion of Nigeria’s external debt (US $12 billion) in return for an $18 billion debt write-off. Prior to the partial debt payment and write-off, Nigeria spent roughly US $1 billion every year on debt servicing, without making a dent in the principal owed.

She also introduced the practice of publishing each state’s monthly financial allocation from the federal government in the newspapers. She was instrumental in helping Nigeria obtain its first ever sovereign credit rating (of BB minus) from Fitch and Standard & Poor’s.

Engr Umar Buba Bindir, PhD

Dr Bindir is the Director General of  National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP). A consummate Nigerian with a passion for excellence and performance. He obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Agricultural Engineering in 1983. He is a professionally trained and qualified Agricultural Machinery Engineer from the prestigious Cranfield University, United Kingdom (where he obtained both the Masters and Doctorate degrees in 1987 and 1991 respectively). Dr Bindir specialized in Machine Design and Development Engineering.

As a Chartered Engineer he has a wide range of experience in the acquisition and use of Micro – Computer hardware and soft ware, Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Machines etc. He Organizes and conduct technical and policy generating fora, Seminars, Symposia and Conferences, and technical report writing and editing etc.

Dr Bindir’s remarkable vast working experiences involve landmark responsibilities in Nigeria, UK and the Pacific including: Lecturing in, Construction, Design and Manufacturing of various ranges of Machineries. He provides technical consultancy services to both the government and private sectors within and outside Nigeria.

 

TECHNICAL

JOSEPH OLUSEGUN AJANLEKOKO –  FNIQS;MAPM (UK); FSCIARB; M.A.Cost.E; MNIM, PPNIQS, PPAAQS

Joseph Olusegun Ajanlekoko, Managing Partner, Construction Economists Partnership has become one of the agents of change needed for national growth and development.  He attended Willesden College of Technology, London, England where he got admission to study Quantity Surveying on the 4 years sandwich programme (1975-1979) (now part of Westminster University, London).

After graduation, he worked and trained in the London office of E.C Harris- one of the foremost Chartered Quantity Surveying firms established in 1911 in England. E.C. Harris is adjudged to be the biggest Q.S. practice in the U.K. with staff strength of over 3,000 across the world. On his return to Nigeria, he worked with Group ‘Q’ Associates and left as an Associate in 1986 to set up his own practice. His practice is known as Construction Economists Partnership, a front line Quantity Surveying and Project Management Company in Nigeria. Under his leadership, Construction Economists Partnership (CEP), was given an Award for Excellence in Quantity Surveying Consultancy by the Construction Digest Forum in 1996 and the International Construction award by Trade Leaders Club of Paris. The firm also won an award tagged. Millennium Award, given to them by The Editorial Ofice, based in Spain in 2000.  Recently his firm was selected as one of the 50 Most Integrity-Driven Firms in Nigeria by The Guardian Newspapers in April 2010.

For dexterity in his professional calling, Olusegun Ajanlekoko’s potential and exemplary qualities drew him to national and international reckoning resulting in numerous appointments as listed herewith up to and including his recent election as the President of Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN) by 2010.

Michael O’Brochta, MPM, PMP

Mr. O’Brochta, who has managed hundreds of projects during the past thirty years, is also an experienced line manager, author, lecturer, trainer and consultant. He holds a master’s degree in project management, a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, and is certified as a PMP. As Zozer Inc. President, he is helping organizations raise their level of project management performance. As senior project manager in large global U.S. government agency, he led the project management and systems engineering training and certification program to mature practices agency-wide.

Mr. O’Brochta’s other recent work includes leading the development of standards and courses for the new U.S. Federal Acquisition Certification for Program and Project Managers; he co-authored a comprehensive FAC-P/PM study. He serves at the PMI corporate level on the ethics Code Implementation Advisory Committee and at the chapter level where he built and led the international PMIWDC Chapter-to-Chapter program; he is a graduate of PMI’s Leadership Institute Mater Class.

Mr. O’Brochta has written and presented papers at every PMI North American Global Congress during the past decade as well as at many international, and regional conferences; he delivers keynotes and presentations frequently at project management events. Audiences have responded most favourably to the degree of interaction and humour that have come to characterize these presentations; they have liked hearing from an experienced project manager who shares actual practices and stories, and they have identified with the subjects as applicable to their environment. Topics that he is currently passionate about include how to get executives to act for project success and great project managers. Since his recent climb of another of the world’s seven summits, he has been exploring the relationship between project management and mountain climbing.

Daniel Adewumi PMP, PMI-RMP, Lead Green Associate

Daniel is a Certified Project Manager, Risk Management Professional, LEED Green Associate and an Engineer with over 15 years of consolidated project value experience in the excess of $2 Billion. Daniel is the President & CEO of PatroDaniels Inc, a Canadian based Project and Property Management firm. He possesses solid skills in project design, planning and administration and has consistently led and delivered projects within budget, on time and specified quality. Daniel is an excellent communicator and instructor; he is actively involved in International Development Projects, and has help facilitate series of International trainings in Project Management, International Development, Construction Management and Leadership across the globe. With an effective Client Relationship and Cultural synergies’ skills, Daniel has consistently package and deliver Manpower and skills development projects across the continents.

He is currently the Knowledge Management Lead at the PMI International Development Community of Practice IDCoP, organising webinars and trainings. He pioneered the ‘Africa Initiative Project’ focusing on developing core competencies in ID best practices in Africa. Helped in authoring the ‘Knowledge Strategy and Content Document’ adopted by the PMI IDCoP. Daniel is also a member of the PMI Knowledge Management Leads.

Daniel is also proficient in the development and implementation of business cases ensuring smooth transitions through all the processes of a project life cycle with pragmatic and deft Project Management and Business Analysis skills. Daniel is at the verge of completing his Executive MBA program at Athabasca University in Canada.

Adedoyin Odunfa, B.Sc, MBA, CISA, CISSP, PRINCE2, PMP, CGEIT, SFIA Accredited Consultant

Adedoyin Odunfa holds a B.Sc. (Combined Honors) in Computer Science and Economics from the Obafemi Awolowo University and an MBA(Information Technology Management) from the City University Business School (now CASS Business School) in the UK. She is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified ISMS (ISO27001) Lead Auditor, a certified Project Management Practitioner, and is also certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT). Further, Adedoyin is an accredited Consultant for the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) developed by the SFIA Foundation whose members are the BCS: Chartered Institute for IT, eSkills UK, IET, IMA and the ITSMF, UK.

Adedoyin started her career as a Software Programmer and Systems Analyst, and after her MBA, spent time supporting Research and Facilitation at the Lagos Business School, after which she worked with a local Consulting Company to lead large scale IT and Project Management interventions. Thereafter, she joined Phillips Consulting to start up the Information Systems and e-business practice and resigned as an Executive Director in November 2007 to start up Digital Jewels in January 2008.

At Digital Jewels, Adedoyin charts a clear direction for the multi-skilled team of sound professionals all focused on the adding distinctive value to their chosen stakeholders through securing, assuring, enabling, empowering and managing information assets. With clients, in community and industry, Adedoyin brings to bear the wealth of her experience in the corporate world, classroom, war room and boardroom. Adedoyin is highly focused, an astute business manager and a perceptive leader.

Dr. O. Chima Okereke Ph.D., MBA, PMP

Dr. Chima Okereke is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Total Technology Consultants, Ltd., a project and business management consulting company based in Nigeria and in the UK.

He is a certified projected management professional with over 25 years of experience in consulting, project and operations management. Since 2002, he has organised the training of over 300 project management practitioners in Nigeria and Gabon in modern structured project management using Primavera Project Management Basic and Advanced Courses through his company in Port Harcourt.

Between 2003 and 2008, Chima was a council member of the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Mines (PHCCIMA) and a director of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce (NACC) Port Harcourt.

Chima was the sponsor and founder of a local chapter of Project Management Institute (PMI) that is the PMI Port Harcourt Nigeria Potential Chapter. He was its president right from its inception in 2004 to 2010.

He has published over thirty papers, articles and reports in project management with the PMI World Today, and has made research publications, both academic and commercial. In 1995, he obtained the MBA degree and in 1994, the PhD degree following research in robotic vision. Both degrees were obtained from the University of Bradford, England. Before his studies in the UK, in 1988, he was the Chief Engineer and head of department in charge of Control, Instrumentation and Computing Systems at the Delta Steel Company Aladja, Warri. Prior to this in 1982, he was a technical trainer/project engineer in the Scallop Training Project in Shell Warri. While, in 1979, he left the National Electric Power Authority as an Acting Principal Engineer and Section Head in charge of Instrumentation and Control at NEPA Power Station, Ogorode, Sapele. Chima was registered with COREN in 1983, and with the Nigerian Society of Engineers in 1982. and completed his first degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Lagos in 1975.

Udechukwu Ojiako PhD

Udechukwu Ojiako is a Lecturer (Research) in Project Management in the School of Management, University of Southampton. Prior to joining the University of Southampton in 2009, he was a Senior Lecturer (Teaching) in Project Management at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle between 2006 and 2009. Dr Ojiako is a licenced PRINCE2 and MSP Practitioner and holds a BEngr (Hons) from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, an MSc in Construction Management from London, South Bank University and a PhD in Project Management from the University of Northumbria, Newcastle. He has published 52 papers in peer reviewed journals including International Journal of Project Management, Project Management Journal, International Journal of Logistics Management and the International Journal of Information Management. He is also a recipient of a 2010 Project Management Institute (PMI) research grant. Before commencing a career in academia, Dr Ojiako had worked as a Senior Project Manager in Information Systems for British Telecommunications PLC between 1998 and 2006.

 

Paul Onwuanibe MSc, MBA

Paul Onwuanibe has been described as a strategic thinker with an entrepreneurial flair. Paul is commercially highly astute with a proven track record inProject Management. He uses innovative solutions to challenge conventional practice. Paul has travelled widely for work, leisure and education he has spent half of his life in the western world and the other half in Africa. He has offices in London and New York, built businesses in Madrid, Frankfurt, Prague and Brussels. His company, The Landmark Group currently runs African offices in Nairobi, Lagos, Accra, Johannesburg and in the process of rolling out in 10 new African cities. Amongst Landmark’s clientele are several fortune 500 companies. Paul has a deep and passionate interest in in Africa as well as extensive African real estate knowledge, experience and fresh views.
Paul began his career in the ‘built environment’ with a formal education in Architecture (BSc & MSc), culminating in Masters degrees in Property Development and Construction Management, together with a London Business School MBA with a merit in ‘Value Engineering’. He has worked for over 20 years in the professional property environment with experience of design and execution projects (Africa, USA and Europe); he served as Development Director with Beacon Housing, a UK based house builder producing over 1000 homes. He was the Executive with Board responsibility for the Property and Logistics team at RegusPlc during the rapid expansion years, which oversaw the opening of 190 business centres in 62 countries with a budget in excess of US$250M. Which later saw the company floated on the Nasdaq for US$1.4B. Paul is currently the CEO of the Landmark Group which he was responsible creatingin 1998, and currently sits on the board as a non executive director of various real estate, finance, recruitment and consulting companies in Africa, USA and Europe.

Tope Fasua MSc

Tope Fasua holds a BSc in Economics from Ondo State University in 1991, where he graduated as the best overall student in the school.  He became a Chartered Accountant under the auspices of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), in 1996, and later obtained a Masters Degree with Distinction, in Financial Markets and Derivatives from London Metropolitan University, Moorgate, London.  He has attended executive training programs in Leadership and Strategy at the prestigious London Business School and Harvard Business School.

Tope worked for about 13 years in the Nigerian financial sector, between 1992 and 2005, from where he resigned after occupying the role of Regional Director of Equitorial Trust Bank in Abuja.  Prior to that, he had worked at Citizens Bank, Standard Trust Bank and Guardian Express Bank.

Today, he is the Group CEO of Global Analytics Consulting Ltd, a company co-founded by him in 2006.  The firm has offices in Abuja Nigeria, London UK, Dubai UAE and a presence in Accra Ghana.

Tope has written over 300 newspaper articles over the past decade, and is presently a standing columnist for Sunday Trust, an Abuja-based national newspaper.  He also contributes occasionally to other newspapers, journals and magazines, within and outside Nigeria – notably Inside Watch Africa among others.  More crucially, he is the author of a book, CRUSHED, which catalogues the many challenges faced by African countries in their quest for development, exploring internal and external factors, and recommending constructive solutions.  The book is acclaimed in newspaper and online reviews, to be the best effort on Africa and Nigeria so far, by a son-of-the-soil.