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Lawal now Managing Director ADC in Nigeria
*Lawal
Toshiba: Flores appointed Vice Chairman
TOSHIBA Memory
Holdings Corporation,
which will officially rebrand
as Kioxia Holdings
Corporation on October 1,
2019, has appointed Lorenzo
A. Flores as Vice Chairman,
effective in November,
2019.
Flores brings a proven
track record of strong executive
leadership to the company
with extensive financial
experience in the technology
industry.
Flores will work closely
with the executive management
team to help lead global
business expansion.
Flores previously spent
eleven years at Xilinx Inc.,
where he served as Chief
Financial Officer since
May of 2016, and Executive
Vice President since February
of 2018. In addition to
his finance roles, Mr. Flores
had responsibility for the
company's Information
Technology function.
During his tenure as Chief
Financial Officer, Xilinx established
all-time highs for
Revenue, Earnings Per
Share, and Operating Cash
Flow. Prior to joining Xilinx,
Flores served as Assistant
Vice President of Financial
Planning and Analysis at
Cognizant Technology Solutions.
He also spent ten years at
Intel Corporation, serving
in a variety of positions including
Controller for the
Intel architecture’s CPUs
Group.
Flores holds bachelor’s
degrees in Civil Engineering
and Management Science
from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and a
Master of Business Administration
from University of
California, Los Angeles.
“We are thrilled that
Lorenzo is joining us in this
crucial leadership role at the
beginning of Kioxia’s history,”
said Stacy J. Smith, Executive
Chairman of
Toshiba Memory Holdings
Corporation.
“With Lorenzo’s excellent
experience and knowledge
of the semiconductor industry,
he is a great addition to
an already deep and experienced
leadership team.
There is no doubt he is the
perfect person to help lead
our company through its
next phase of growth as Kioxia.”
“I am excited to take on
this position and honored to
join the team as it begins its
exciting new journey as Kioxia,”
said Mr. Flores.
“Toshiba Memory has always
been a leader in the
memory industry, and Kioxia
is well positioned to lead
us into a new era of memory.”
*Flores
RTC Advisory: Nwani now Managing Consultant
RTC Advisor Limited, a
consulting firm has announced
the appointment of
Dr. Vincent Nwani as its
Managing Consultant. He
becomes the second Managing
Consultant of the firm
after 18 years of its operation.
Prior to his appointment,
Vincent served at the Lagos
Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (LCCI) as Director
where he supervised Research,
Business Policy Advocacy
and Training Services
of the Chamber for about
seven years. Before joining
LCCI, he served as the head
of research at First Bank of
Nigeria Plc, Economist and
Investment Executive at
BGL Group Plc and Consulting
Executive at Magnartis
Finance & Investment
Ltd. Vincent earned the Doctor
of Philosophy (Ph.D) in
Economics from Monarch
Business School in Switzerland,
Master and Bachelor
of Science (M.Sc & B.Sc) Degrees
in Economics from the
university of Ibadan and Port
Harcourt respectively.
D r. Nwani is a proven
*Nwani
leader and has built a profound
track record in the
Nigerian private sector as
an Economist, Business/Investment
Strategist, Project
Specialist, Trade Facilitator,
Policy Analyst and a seasoned
Research Fellow over
the last 15 years.
Speaking on his appointment,
Dr. Vincent Nwani
said, ”I am happy to lead
RTC Advisory ltd and I am
confident that together with
the innovative team and our
stakeholders, we will build
on the existing legacy of the
firm and position it for more
Microsoft has elevated
Gafar Lawal to the
position of Managing Director
of its Africa Development
Centre in Nigeria,
launched in May 2019.
With more than 20 years
of experience in various business
functions, Lawal returns
to Microsoft from
Morgan Stanley where he
served as Managing Director
and Global Chief Technology
Architect for the
Wealth Management Division.
Prior to his time at
Morgan Stanley, Lawal
spent over six years working
at Microsoft’s US headquarters
in Redmond, WA as Partner
Architect in the Windows
server group and Windows
phone services division.
He also spent ten years
as First Vice President and
Chief Technology Architect
at Merrill Lynch.
“The ADC is unlike any
other existing investment on
the continent – enabling us
to better listen to our customers,
develop locally and
scale for global impact – in
the grand scheme of things,
presenting a strategic opportunity
for us to comprehend
a continent that is rapidly
adopting cloud technology
May & Baker: Mrs Danjuma
takes over as Board Chairman
By Abolade Oyeneye
May and Baker Niger
ia Plc has appointed
Senator Daisy Ehanire Danjuma
as the new Chairman
of the Board, with immediate
effect. The company disclosed
this in a notice to the
Nigerian Stock Exchange,
NSE.
According to the notice,
Danjuma will replace Theophilus
Yakubu Danjuma,
whose tenure expired September
27, 2019.
Senator Daisy Ehanire
Danjuma was born on the
6th of August, 1952 in Benin
and massive innovation at
the intelligent edge,” says
Mike Fortin, corporate vice
president at Microsoft.
“We’ve been actively sourcing
talent to join our team
of engineers and are delighted
to have Gafar bring
his leadership skills to the
team.”
ADC engineers are already
working with local partners
and customers on key issues
for Nigeria, Africa, and the
rest of the world. Through
the creation of an employment
pipeline, local graduates
and experienced technologists
from industry can
join Microsoft at the ADC in
Lagos to begin or continue
exciting careers in areas that
include AI, mixed reality,
and application development
– making meaningful
contributions on a local and
global scale.
“I am looking forward to
embarking on this incredible
new journey with the
Microsoft team and effectively
playing my part in
bringing digital transformation
to the continent at large.
I hope that as we continue
to not only identify and nurture
talent but also bring
about unprecedented
change, that we will continue
to aid every individual
involved to achieve more,”
concludes Lawal.
City, Edo State, She was first
appointed to the Board of
Directors of our Company
on 30th July, 1999 until 8th
October, 2003 and later on
30th May, 2019.
She is a law graduate of
the Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria with over four decades
post-call experience
having been called to the
Nigerian bar in 7977, She
worked as a State Counsel
in Lagos State Ministry of
Justice, a pioneer legal counsel
to the Legal Aid Council.
She was the Company
Secretary/Legal Adviser to
the Nigerian Television Authority,
NTA, from l982 to
1992.
She was elected as Senator
of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria 2003-2007, while
in the Senate, she was a
member of the Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association,
CPA and Chairman,
Women and Child Right
Committee of the Economic
Community of West African
States (ECOWAS Parliament).
She was also the Chairman,
Senate Committee on
Women Affairs and Youth
Development, She served as
Member, Senate Committees
on Health, Education,
Finance, Land and Transport
of the National Assem-
Vanguard, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2019—45
Chams Plc : Young appointed
Group CEO
Mr Gavin Young has
scaled up the
corporate ladder with his
appointment as the Group
Managing Director and
Chief Executive Officer of
Chams Plc.
He succeeded Engineer
Femi Williams who retired
after many years of
meritorious service. Until his
recent appointment, Young
was a strategic consultant to
key subsidiaries of Chams Plc
: Chams Switch Limited and
Chams Mobile Limited.
.Young
A seasoned Fintech
professional with a proven
track record in managing
companies, including
subsidiaries of listed
companies spanning diverse
geographical areas of Africa
.Young brings to Chams Plc,
over three decades of robust
industry experience to raise the
bar in all the company’s
performance indicators.
Young, specifically focuses on
all areas of Electronic Banking
and Fintech; Issuing,
Acquiring, Switching etc. His
Primary areas of specialization
are payments switching and
processing, developing and
managing payment card
schemes, terminal and other
electronic infrastructure
TechWomen: Ms Adekunle
represents Nigeria
arketing and
M e d i a dia platform amplifying the
Entrepreneur, Adejoke
Adekunle, has been tech with its debut podcast
stories of African women in
shortlisted as one of the edition launched in 2018.
2019 emerging leaders in Prior her entrepreneurial
growth and sustainability.”
STEM across Africa, Central journey, she was Chief Operating
Officer at DigiEn-
Commenting on the appointment,
Mr. Opeyemi
and South Asia, and the
Middle East, invited to gage - a digital consultancy
Agbaje, the Pioneer Chief
participate in the USgovernment
sponsored and held a Content Manag-
under the Bluebird Group
Executive Officer and
Founder, RTC Advisory
TechWomen Programme. er & Senior Editor role at
said, ”We are confident
The programme which is a Nigeria’s foremost jobs site
that RTC will benefit from
mentorship and exchange - Jobberman.
Dr. Nwani’s creative insights
and specialised approach
as we continue to
in the United States from
programme will commence
advance our strategic goal
September 28th.
of wealth creation by positioning
governments and
of only 28 emerging leaders
She joins an exclusive list
private institutions in Nigeria
and ultimately in West
ticipated in the programme
from Nigeria who have par-
African sub-region. His ideals
are exactly what RTC
of the youngest Nigerian rep-
since 2013. At 28, she is one
needs as it enters its next
resentatives at the programme.
Through the pro-
chapter of expanded impact,
institutionalisation, intelligence
and thoughts leaderorating
on a series of projects
gramme, she will be collabship,
broader frontier and
together with mentors at
strategic alliance even as
Twitter Headquarters in San
we elevate the quality of policies
& value delivery, prod-
Adekunle holds a decade
Francisco.
ucts and services to the highest
level attainable riding on
ing. She is the founder and
long experience in market-
best of advisory/consulting
CEO of VVM - a digital consultancy
focused on Finance,
practice. We count on the
continued support of our esteemed
clients and other
brands across Africa. She’s
Agriculture and Energy
stakeholders and invite all
also the founder and
to join us in welcoming Dr.
managing partner of The
Nwani on board”. *Mrs. Danjuma African Tech Woman, a me- *Adejoke Adekunle
management, transaction
processing, transaction
acquiring systems, and mobile
payments among others.
Industry watchers hailed
Young’s appointment as a
strategic move by Chams PLC
to reinforce its brand
positioning and deliver value
to the company’s
stakeholders.
A consummate banker who
had worked for key Pan-
Regional Banks such as
Barclays Bank, Stanbic Bank
and First National Bank of
South Africa where he worked
for 20 years, Young is
entrepreneurial and skilled at
building organizations,
partnerships and alliances,
formulating business strategy
and negotiating business
agreements. He was the
Deputy Managing Director at
Chams Mobile Nigeria
Limited from January 2014 to
March, 2018 and currently a
Director on the company’s
board. He was the Managing
Director at ChamsSwitch
Nigeria Limited
At First National Bank of
South Africa, he implemented
most electronic banking, card
systems and infrastructure; 7
years at Visa as Country
Manager, sub-Saharan Africa,
including South Africa, UK
and Nigeria, where, after
developing the Visa CEMEA
for Nigeria, volunteered to
reside in the country in order
to work with all payment
entities to implement Visa
cards and payments across all
banks in Nigeria.
Young, is credited for growing
a good number of Visa issuing
banks in sub-Saharan Africa,
from 22 to over 120 in 4 years.