Investor Presentaiton
ANNUAL REPORT 2020
Board of Directors' Profile
Company Secretary/Legal Adviser
Mr. Marc Galjaard
Executive Director
Mr. Marc Galjaard is the Finance Director of FrieslandCampina
WAMCO Nigeria PLC. He joined the Board as Finance Director
on 15th September 2020.
Mr. Marc Galjaard holds a Master of Science Degree in
Accounting & Auditing from the Nyenrode Business University
in the Netherlands and is a Certified Public Accountant of the
Netherlands (RA). He is a Member of the Royal Professional
Association of Accountants in the Netherlands (NBA).
Mr. Marc Galjaard has over 25 years of extensive experience in
Finance, which he acquired working for and with multinational
companies. He joined FrieslandCampina in 2012 as Director
Corporate Accounting & Reporting in the Netherlands
and subsequently held Finance roles as Finance Director
FrieslandCampina in Hungary, as Director EMEA Financial
Shared Service Centre in Budapest where he was in charge
of the set-up of the Centre and roll-out in the EMEA region
and most recently as Finance Director FrieslandCampina in
Germany, where he co-led transformation of the commercial
function.
Prior to joining FrieslandCampina, Marc held various
management positions at KPMG of which Director of Audit
at KPMG Corporate Clients in the Netherlands and as Audit
Manager at KPMG London in the United Kingdom, in which
capacity he worked for and with leading (listed) companies in
the FMCG, Electronics and Finance industries in an international
context.
Mr. Marc Galjaard has attended various developmental business
courses among which management development programs,
professional qualification related courses and leadership
training at IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mr. Robert Steetskamp
Non-Executive Director
Mr. Robert Steetskamp is a Non-Executive Director of
FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC. He was appointed
as a Non-Executive Director of the Company on 1 September
2012.
He began his career working in various capacities within
key multinationals as Procter & Gamble, Beecham and later
Henkel in Europe.
He joined FrieslandCampina in 1994 as General Director.
In 2000, he became the Director Strategic Business
Development (Corporate, HQ) and in 2005, he became the
Managing Director of FrieslandCampina, Russia/CIS and in
2009 became the Managing Director of FrieslandCampina
WAMCO Nigeria PLC.
He was for 3 years delegated to the Ministry of Economic
Affairs of the Netherlands to internationally lead the Agric.
and Food top sector.
Mr. Steetskamp is currently the Chairman, Netherlands
Agro, Food & Technology Centre. He is an astute leader
who has continued to raise the bars and standards of
FrieslandCampina. He holds a degree in Economics from HES
Amsterdam (Academy for Economics Studies), subsequently
followed various business courses amongst which Advanced
Marketing from Harvard University and the Leadership
Program at IMD Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mrs. Olubukunola Olateru
Company Secretary/Legal Adviser
Mrs. Olubukunola Olateru is a Corporate Counsel and Chartered Secretary
with extensive experience in broad multi-functional roles spanning Legal
Practice, Corporate and Regulatory Affairs, Commercial legal Management
as well as Commercial Law and Corporate Governance practice. Her forte
is identifying existing and emerging legal and corporate governance risks
to business and proffering innovative solutions. She recently received the
Nigerian Rising Star award, as one of the 40 Leading Nigerian Lawyers Under
40 who will shape the future of the legal profession in Nigeria.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of
Nigeria and a member of the United Kingdom equivalent, a trained Arbitrator
and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, UK (FCIArb) and a
member of the Association of Company Secretaries and Legal Advisers in
Manufacturing (ACSLA). She joined FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC
in May 2015 as the Legal Counsel. Prior to her current role, she was Legal
Counsel in Food Concepts Plc and Company Secretary, Free Range Farms
Plc (a subsidiary of Food Concepts Plc). She has also worked in Guinness
Nigeria Plc as Legal Associate and in private practice with Babalakin & Co.
Legal Practitioners.
She is a dynamic business lawyer, board room expert and governance
professional, who has gathered considerable professional experience in
company secretarial, corporate governance and compliance, legal advisory
services and negotiating international business transactions. In her current
role, she is responsible for the company secretariat, legal advisory, property
management, risk management, intellectual property, corporate governance
framework and code of business conduct for the business entity in Nigeria.
She was appointed as Company Secretary to the Board of Directors in
August 2017.
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