Mr Innocent Obande – Managing Director/CEO

 

Innocent Obande holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from the University of Jos (1991), a Masters in Public Administration from Nasarawa State University (2010) and Palladium Kaplan-Norton Balanced Scorecard Certificate.  He started his career with the Defunct Africa Continental Bank in March 16,1993 and subsequently worked as Operations and Development Officer with Standard Trust (now UBA), and Diamond banks now Access Bank over a 19 years period.  He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria, Society of Petroleum Engineers (USA) and an associate member of Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (USA). He is also a member of the Nigeria China Business Council.

In 2012, he left the banking sector to promote new business ventures in Oil and Gas, Power Generation, Agriculture and Real Estate. He is the Executive Vice Chairman of Trevari Group, Bingham Energy Resources Ltd (Nigeria and Canada), IDB Development Energy Resources Ltd. and Trevari Energy Resources. Furthermore, Other business initiatives put forth by him are Hotep partners Ltd where he is the MD, Qingdao Exe International Nigeria Ltd where he serves as a Director, Isto Farms Ltd and Bingham Kent Walter Alliance Ltd. Innocent is a founding Trustee of the following; Grass Cutter Farmers Association of Nigeria (GRAFAN), Green House & Aquaponics Farmers Association of Nigeria and National Fish Association of Nigeria (NFAN) 

Innocent finds time to provide service to his community as a member, Finance Board of ECWA, People Oriented development (POD) of ECWA, Church Business Initiative and ECWA staff school Jos respectively.