WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA: CHIKE ONYEJEKWE – ANOTHER SHELL-GROWN
WHO’S WHO IN CORPORATE NIGERIA
CHIKE ONYEJEKWE
CURRENT POSITION: CEO, Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Company
PAST POSITIONS: General Manager, Onshore and Shelf Exploration, Shell Nigeria; Onshore & Shelf Exploration Manager, Shell Nigeria; Business Development and Exploration Manager, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC); Chief Geologist, SPDC; Asset Development Manager, East, Shell Nigeria; Senior Production Seismologist, Production Development Company of Oman
CAREER START: Trainee Production Geologist, Shell Nigeria, 1978
EXPERTISE: Geology, Seismology; Petroleum Engineering
NIGERIAN EDUCATION: BSc Geology, University of Nigeria, Nsukka , 1978
FOREIGN EDUCATION: Ashtridge Business School London, 2001; Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania USA, 2003
JARUSHUB ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION: Another Shell-grown oil and gas guru
JARUSHUB REMARKS
He has had all his almost 40 years career in Shell. Proves again what I say: people hardly leave the upstream oil and gas industry until retirement. Also common seeing movement from one IOC to another, or from an IOC to help upcoming independents organize their affairs
Did his Masters more than 20 years after graduating and working in Shell; Again, this profile supports my argument on this platform that many Nigeria executives go abroad to obtain top-notch second degree after they are made.
Did not get second degree until after many years and already Senior Management staff in Shell. Experience trumps certificate.
Another Wharton alumnus like Godwin Emefiele and Biodun Sanusi earlier profiled on this platform. Wharton is currently the 4th best Business School in the world by Financial Times rating.
