An experienced eight-man Board of directors oversees the Company.
Chairman/CEO
Tunde Afolabi is the founding Managing Director/CEO of Amni International Petroleum Development Company in 1993, now the Chairman/CEO of the company.
He received his B.A Geology in 1973 from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster Pennsylvania USA, and M.Sc. in Geology, in 1975 from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He started his career with Texaco Inc, New Orleans Louisiana in 1974, and continued with Mobil Inc in Dallas, Texas in 1979. He is a professional geologist with over 40 years of oil and gas exploration and production experience from international and independent oil and gas companies. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), a past President of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) and a council member of the Nigerian Association of Indigenous Production and Exploration Companies (NAIPEC). He was conferred with Doctor of Technology (Honoris Causa) by Ladoke Akintola University, Ogbomosho, Osun State Nigeria in 2009.
Olajide Farinre has over 25 years of experience in the upstream industry and extensive leadership experience in the breadth of Oil and gas Operations.
He previously held senior management roles at ExxonMobil affiliates in Nigeria and Houston, USA.
He holds a BSc in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from Obafemi Awolowo Univ., Ile-Ife, in Nigeria.
He joined Amni International in 2023, leading the company’s overall operations.
Prof. Afolabi joined AMNI International in 2019. He has a distinguished career spanning public and private sector.
He served as Former Head of Federal Civil Service, for the Federal Republic of Nigeria under Former President Goodluck Jonathan.
He also served as Chairman and Pro-Chancellor of two Universities in Nigeria.
He has held positions on many boards across multiple industries, including Oil & Gas, Power, Insurance, IT and Telecommunications.
He holds a B.Sc. in Bio-Chemistry and an M.Sc. in Chemistry, and a PhD. in Applied Chemistry.
Executive Director, GCFO
With over 35 years of banking, Leke is one of Nigeria’s most experienced and leading bankers with exposure and leadership in Banking Operations, Corporate and Investment Banking, Energy Banking, Retail/Commercial Banking, Capital Markets, Project Finance as well as Financial Advisory Services. He has been involved in several private and public capital market issues of equity and debt, Mergers & Acquisitions as well as several Project Finance exercises for major corporate and energy transactions. His recent financial services advisory experience covers telecommunications, Upstream Oil & Gas projects, downstream energy, infrastructure development finance, petrochemicals as well as power projects.
As a Board member of Standard Chartered Bank in Nigeria, he led CSR drives to encourage and mentor indigent, high school students in the country as part of his interest in the development of young minds and building a pipeline of the country’s future management capacity. He has been a resource person in several local and international seminars with international acknowledgment of his stature as a leading commercial and investment banker specializing in energy finance.
With first and second degrees in Economics and Business Administration, Leke retired as Head of Global Banking and Executive Director, Corporate and Institutional Banking for Standard Chartered Bank with responsibility for Financial Markets/Treasury, Financial Institutions, International Corporates, Corporate Finance and Transaction Banking.
Executive Director, Company Secretary
Olayinka Olafimihan joined Amni International in 2022.
He is a corporate commercial lawyer with almost 40 years of experience as in-house counsel in Nigerian companies spanning banking, telecoms, and oil & gas.
He holds degrees in Law and Business, including an LL.M from the London School of Economics.
Non-Executive Director
Hon. Justice Salihu Modibo Alfa Belgore, GCON, received his professional training at the Inns court School of Law, London and the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. He was the Chief Justice of Nigeria Supreme Court from July 2006 to January 2007.
He was called to the Outer Bar at the Inner Temple in 1964, and after completing his qualifications from the Nigerian Law School, was appointed Associate Magistrate in the Judiciary of Northern Nigeria. He later became the Chief Judge of Plateu State and the Justice of the Court of Appeal in 1979. Belgore was elevated to the Supreme Court Bench in 1986. He is fluent in many languages including Fulfide, Hausa, Ibo, Yoruba, Nupe, French, Spanish, Aramaic and Latin. His hobbies include Mathematics, Physics, Medicine, and similar scholarly pursuits.
He is a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, a distinguished and well respected Judge both in Nigeria and internationally with many outstanding qualities.
Ms. Amal Pepple holds a B.Sc. (first class with honours) Political Science degree from the University of Ile-Ife 1981, Nigeria and a Master of Science Degree from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, UK.
She began her working career as a Lecturer in Political Science at the Rivers State College of Education. In 1992, she was appointed the Clerk of the Senate of the National Assembly, where she began her Federal Civil Service career. She meritoriously served in the Federal Civil Service, culminating in her being appointed as a Permanent Secretary in 1999. She served in that capacity in several Ministries, such as the Federal Civil Service Commission, Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Information and National Orientation, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Ministry of Finance. While serving in these Ministries, she held the following positions: Governor of OPEC for Nigeria, Governor Common Fund for Commodities, Alternate Governor International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Governor OPEC fund for International Development, Alternate Governor Islamic Development Bank, Alternate Governor African Development Bank, Alternate Governor International Monetary Fund.
She is also a Board Member of Commonwealth Association for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM), and a Director in Zenith PLC and Oando PLC until her Ministerial Appointment. In 2008, she was appointed the Head of Civil Service of the Federation. She is an Awardee of the National Honour of Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (CFR). She retired as Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.
Amal Pepple joined the board of Amni in 2018 as a Non-Executive Director.
Non-Executive Director
Charles has over fourteen years at board level in Oil and Gas E&P Companies and Advisory Consultancies, as well as many senior roles in major Design Engineering Contractors.
His roles have demonstrated a proven track record in energy, covering the oil, gas and power sectors from exploration to final products. Also considered an industry expert in gas, heavy oil, energy strategy and conceptual development and has provided critical advice to Governments and Oil and Gas Companies of all sizes.
With over thirty three years experience in the oil and gas industry and wider energy sector, Charles has been able to provide a unique balance of management and commercial skills together with a technical understanding that has driven growth and profit on the basis of converting technical and commercial knowledge and systems into demonstrable value for its clients repeatedly. He was short listed by World Oil for the ‘innovator of the year’ award for 2003 for the creation of a new Gas Business Modeling System for the North American Continent. He has given a series of papers and publications on the development of energy master plans, stranded gas and natural gas supply throughout the world. Charles has featured as a gas expert on CNN Business News, CBS, Radio Asia, New York Times, UK Financial Times, Houston Chronicle, World Oil, Oil and Gas Executive and other industry publications.
