Oladipo Jadesimi (The Nigerian Solar)
Chief Oladipo “Ladi” Jadesimi is a distinguished Nigerian oil businessman and the founding father of the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL), the place he at present serves as the chief chairman. His journey to changing into a key determine in Nigeria’s oil and gasoline sector is marked by a powerful instructional basis and various skilled experiences.
Born in Nigeria in 1945, Oladipo Jadesimi accomplished his secondary training on the prestigious King’s Faculty, Lagos. He then pursued larger training in the UK, graduating from Oxford College in 1966 with M.A. and L.L.B. levels in Jurisprudence. Following his research, he launched into a profession in accountancy, working as a chartered accountant with Coopers and Lybrand in London. His experience within the subject earned him a Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (F.C.A.).
Jadesimi’s profession moved past conventional accountancy. He turned a founding associate in Arthur Andersen Nigeria, the place he continues to contribute as an Impartial Monetary Marketing consultant. He additionally turned a significant investor within the Niger Delta Oil Firm. His affect within the oil trade grew considerably, resulting in his appointment as a director of Niger Delta Exploration and Manufacturing PLC in 2010. He turned the Chairman of the Board on June 21, 2016. Moreover, he served as a non-executive director of First Metropolis Monument Financial institution from 1983 till 2011.
Oladipo Jadesimi and his daughter (The Nigerian Solar)
The Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL) is the cornerstone of his enterprise pursuits. This privately owned, multi-billion naira state-of-the-art logistics and engineering facility is positioned on an island on the coast of Lagos Lagoon. Jadesimi’s imaginative and prescient for LADOL was to maximise the native advantage of Nigeria’s offshore oil and gasoline trade, creating an industrial hub for the sector. Below his management, LADOL has been instrumental in attracting a number of main main oil corporations and oil servicing corporations to Nigeria.
In his private life, Chief Jadesimi is married to Alero Okotie-Eboh, a former broadcaster and the daughter of Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. They’ve a daughter, Amy Jadesimi, who has adopted in her father’s entrepreneurial footsteps and serves because the Chief Government Officer of LADOL, taking a number one position within the household’s flagship enterprise. Amy, an Oxford-trained medical physician, additionally labored at Goldman Sachs earlier than becoming a member of LADOL in 2004 and changing into its managing director in 2009.
Oladipo Jadesimi additionally has one other daughter, Emma Thynn, Marchioness of Tub, from a relationship he had with English socialite Suzanna McQuiston whereas working as an accountant in London within the Nineteen Eighties. Emma, also referred to as Viscountess Emma Weymouth, is a socialite and vogue mannequin based mostly in the UK. She married Ceawlin Thynn, Viscount Weymouth, in 2013.
Regardless of his important wealth and affect, Chief Jadesimi is understood for his desire for a quiet life-style, usually sustaining a comparatively low profile amongst Nigeria’s elite. His enterprise endeavors have targeted on fostering native content material and improvement inside Nigeria’s burgeoning oil and gasoline sector.