Investor Presentaiton
ANNUAL REPORT 2020
Management Team Profile
Mr. Bernard Cheruiyot Langat
Managing Director
Mr. Bernard Cheruiyot Langat is the Managing Director
of FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC. He joined the
company over four years ago as the Managing Director. He
has over 28 years' experience acquired through working in
leading multinationals, Unilever and Coca Cola before his
current position.
His last position was the Managing Director, Nigerian Bottling
Company Limited, Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company. He
has extensive experience across African Markets having
held various senior management positions in Kenya, Malawi,
Ghana and Nigeria where he has consistently led businesses
to accelerate performance and build long term growth
strategies.
He is a past Vice President of the Association of Foods
Beverage and Tobacco employers of Nigeria (AFBTE) and an
active member of several industry advocacy groups.
Mr. Langat holds a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the
University of Nairobi, Master of Business Administration
from Edinburgh Business School Heriot Watt University
Scotland UK, and is a Certified Public Accountant of Kenya
CPA (K). He is a Member of the Institute of Certified Public
Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK).
He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School Advanced
Management Program AMP191, Boston USA, the London
Business School as well as IMD Lausanne Switzerland.
Mr. Adewale Arikawe
Sales Director
Mr. Adewale Arikawe is the Sales Director for FrieslandCampina
WAMCO Nigeria PLC. He joined FrieslandCampina WAMCO
as a member of the Management Team in August 2014. He
holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science, and Master
of Public Administration (MPA), from Ogun State University.
He has attended business school courses at IMD Lusanne,
Switzerland and Lagos Business School. He is accredited by
Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) and
a fellow of Professional Managers and Administrators of
Nigeria as well as the Institute of Credit Administration (ICA).
He has accumulated over 24 years' experience in the
Commercial part of the business starting from Multichoice
Nigeria where he began his career in Sales, and in 18 years
of working in various capacities at Nestle Nigeria PLC where
he pioneered both Regional Sales Operations South-South
and Branch Office South and East of Nigeria. He was later
transferred to Lagos to set up the National Institution
and Alternative Business Operations before moving into
Marketing as Category Business Manager for Dairy in Nestle
Nigeria.
As part of the Generating Demand team in Nestle, he started
the Specialty and Import business to trigger new consumption
opportunities in the country and later headed the Modern
Trade Team before joining FrieslandCampina.
Adewale is a leader that works with passion, influences
his team to drive the link between engagement and
performance, is result oriented and constantly strives for
continuous improvement. He currently oversees the Sales,
Shopper Marketing and Business Excellence departments of
the Company.
Mrs. Oreoluwa Famurewa
Corporate Affairs Director
Mrs. Ore Famurewa is the Executive Director, Corporate Affairs
for FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria PLC. She became a
member of the Management Team in January 2014.
She is a seasoned professional vastly experienced in Government
Relations, Public and Regulatory Affairs and Communication
with proven track record spanning over 24 years within the
organisation.
Mrs. Famurewa holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from
the University of Lagos and MBAs in Marketing and Corporate
Governance from Lagos State University and National Open
University of Nigeria respectively. She is a member of key
professional bodies including the Nigerian Institute of Public
Relations (NIPR), Institute of Directors (IOD), National Institute
of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN) and Nutrition Society of Nigeria
(NSN). She is an Associate member of Women in Management,
Business & Public Services (WIMBIZ) and a Fellow of the
WIMBOARD Institute, a WIMBIZ/IE University, Madrid Executive
Education Programme for Women on Boards. She has attended
several leadership courses in Nigeria and abroad at the Lagos
Business School, IMD, Switzerland and IE Business School,
Madrid.
Mrs. Famurewa is a passionate business leader and a respectable
woman of integrity who has pioneered several successful
key projects in her career. She is listed in the Women World
Compendium of 2002 as a prominent Nigerian woman and
has won awards including Outstanding Female Corporate
Communications Professional of the year in the FMCG category
at the Women in Marketing and Communications Conference
and Award (WIMCA) 2019.
In October 2020, she received the Marketing Edge Award for the
most Outstanding Corporate Communications Personality of the
Decade at the Marketing and Advertising Awards of Excellence.
Mr. Marc. Galjaard
Finance Director
Mr. Marc Galjaard is the Finance Director of FrieslandCampina
WAMCO Nigeria PLC. He joined FrieslandCampina WAMCO as
a member of the Management Team in 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.
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