M.O.A Sunmonu, CON
Chairman

Mr Mutiu Sunmonu is an accomplished technocrat, with over 36 years experience in the oil & gas industry in Nigeria, UK & Netherlands. He graduated from the University of Lagos with a first class BSc. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Served as the Managing Director of The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, Vice President of Production Sub-Saharan Africa at Royal Dutch Shell plc and served as its Country Chairman of Nigeria since December 31, 2009.

Led Shell’s multi-billion dollar operations in Nigeria employing over 4000 direct staff with revenue contribution to the Nigerian Government of ~$70 billion dollars between 2009-2013.

He joined Royal Dutch Shell as a Computer Programmer and Business Analyst and became a Senior EDP Auditor, where he was responsible for operational audit of computer systems, business applications, as well as the computing and network environment. He later served as the Head of IT Infrastructure Services and IT Manager of SPDC.

Mr. Sunmonu moved from the IT function, to the core production area of the business where he worked as Area Production Manager, overseeing some 10 producing fields and was appointed as Asset Manager of Southern Swamp Area, with responsibility for 12 producing fields. He worked as Regional Business Adviser at the Shell Headquarters at The Hague. In this role, he was part of the team that developed the initial investment proposal for the China West to East integrated pipeline and gas supply project.

He served in the capacity of General Manager Production for the SPDC Eastern operations. and as Country Chairman of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd. He also served as SPDC's Executive Director of Corporate Affairs and as its Executive Director of Production, where he had overall accountability for its oil and gas production activities and delivery.

He serves as the Chairman of Imperial Homes Mortgage Bank and has been Non-Executive Chairman of San Leon Energy Plc since September 21, 2016. He is also currently the Chairman of the Board of Julius Berger Nigeria and Director of Petralon Energy Resources and Unilever Nigeria Limited.

As the Chairman of the board, Mr. Sunmonu brings his wealth of experience to provide leadership to the board of SEL Capital.

Olayiwola Are

Vice Chairman

Lai Are is the Managing Director of Catamaran Group. He has over 20 years of experience in Transportation Infrastructure Consultancy, providing services to both the government and private clients on Infrastructure Development, Operations and Maintenance.

He is highly skilled in conceptualization of projects, business modelling and planning, economics, market studies, strategic advice and project management.

He has experience in aviation, maritime, transportation and logistics sectors as well as Public Private Partnership (PPP) Advisory.

He has worked on several landmark projects in Nigeria including Inland Container Ports Concessioning Programme, deep sea projects and other logistics projects in the maritime industry.

He has worked as the Technical Consultant to the National Assembly on the Aviation Industry as well as the Nigerian Infrastructure Advisory Facility.

Lai has an MBA degree from the Lagos Business School and has undergone several trainings in management and leadership including, Logistics Management, Total Quality Management and Essentials of Leadership at the London Business School.

He is currently undertaking the Owner/President Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

Segun Opaleye
Managing Director

Segun Opaleye is a proficient strategist with over 20 years' experience in financial services covering both investment and commercial banking. His areas of specialty include mergers & acquisitions, equity & debt capital markets, project finance & infrastructure, corporate & business transformation, corporate banking, and compliance & risk management.

Segun was Deputy Head of Investment Banking in Vetiva Capital Management. He joined United Bank for Africa as the Head of Strategy and Financial Modelling.

He later became the Head of Strategy and Business Development where he was responsible for developing the corporate and product strategy as well as growth initiatives in global consumer banking directorate. He moved from this role to become Director of Project Alpha, a 3-year group-wide game changing project consisting of key strategic transformation initiatives around processes, people, products and channels to achieve its financial targets and strategic objectives.

He became Group Head, Power, Project Finance & Infrastructure where he was responsible for execution of transactions in key growth sectors of the economy.

From this role, he became Divisional Head, Maritime, Logistics & Projects with responsibility for originating, structuring and executing transactions in key growth economic sectors in all operating countries of UBA.

His sector coverage includes power, maritime & logistics, oil & gas, hospitality, infrastructure and health. Segun has extensive transaction experience in origination, structure and execution of transactions more than US$6.5 billion

Segun graduated from Obafemi Awolowo University with a 2.1 in Demography & Social Statistics and an MBA from SDA Bocconi School of Management Milan, Italy & Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, NH, USA

Oyindamola Samira Adeyemi
Director

Oyindamola Samira Adeyemi is an exceptional entrepreneur with a unique passion for excellence. She is a passionate, performance driven and strategic business owner, administrator and leader of Yoruba and Hausa descent with a strong passion for excellence, success and advancement of humanity.

She is highly successful in the deployment of first rate interpersonal skills in building relationships with upper level decision makers, seizing control of critical problem areas, delivering on clients’ organizational commitments and goals.

She is the founder of Still Earth Limited which has grown tremendously over the years and recently metamorphized into the Still Earth Group, a multi million dollar group of companies that deal in construction, property development & management and financial services.

She currently sits as the Group Managing Director of the Still Earth Group.

She commenced her career in the banking sector as a junior staff and rose through the ranks to become the Regional Head, Public Sector in Equitorial Trust Bank. She later resigned from the banking career to set up Still Earth Group.

Oyindamola holds a BSc. In Political Science and MSc in Political Economy and Development Studies from the University of Abuja.

She is currently undertaking the Owner/President Management Program of Harvard Business School, USA.

Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie
Director

Uyi is an accomplished energy & commercial transactions lawyer, vastly experienced in corporate & investment law, and power, energy and infrastructure law and transaction structuring, serving on several corporate boards straddling most sectors of the economic landscape, is sought after for his ‘client-side’ knowledge and vast board room experience and deep knowledge of corporate culture and structure.

With ‘hands on’ knowledge of corporate practice and culture, he has guided a significant number of acquisitions in the energy & infrastructure landscape, through steady advice and support, particularly to ambitious ‘green field’ and ‘brown field’ energy and power projects, solar and green energy, bio-fuels and utilities, and incidental mergers & acquisitions.

Worked on energy projects in the rapidly growing electricity market ranging from industrial parks to emerging off-grid solar projects, including one of over 100 MW, ensuring, with his team, that the domestic regulatory and compliance landscape is easily de-risked for investors.

He has worked on transport and infrastructure transactions including, advising marine & ferry-fleeting and financing, cabotage and acquisitions. Frequently advises private equity investors on financing transactions in the maritime sector.

Expertise:
- Investment and Taxation Law
- Petroleum, Energy & Infrastructure
- Banking and Finance Law
- Industrial and Intellectual Property Law

As a director, Uyi brings a lot of transactions experience in key growth sectors that SEL Capital operates.