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Our Corporate Leadership



Eke U. Eke

Chief Executive Officer

26 years industry experience with 23 years in Schlumberger. He most recently served in Houston as Vice President International Clients. Prior to that, was based in Lagos as Group Managing Director and VP Schlumberger West Africa; at Rosharon as Global Business Manager Schlumberger Intelligent Completions and in Paris as Marketing Manager Europe, Africa and Caspian. He has a deep knowledge of the West African market, its E&P customer base, the oilfield service community and regulators. He took the leadership position at SpringRock Group in early 2016.

J. M. Kumar

Chief Technology & Operating Officer

32 years industry experience. He served as Regional Director Wells Xodus Dubai. Chief Operating Officer of Sterling Global in Nigeria from 2006 to 2011 and developed OPL 277 and 280, and was instrumental to acquiring blocks OPL 2004 and OPL 2006. Led the 4 offshore wells successful campaign in Nigeria that was executed by SpringRock in 2016 and the various project till date. A versatile and highly skilled leader with ability to integrate and execute projects from the early conceptual stage until final delivery. Specific expertise includes asset management, Well construction, optimization & cost management.


Nora Ifedili

Director Support Services

17+ years of professional banking and management experience with 13 years in the banking sector where she developed strong background in Business Management. Nora was a Manager of a large bank branch with responsibilities on Profitability, Liability & Risk Management and Asset Growth. Other areas of expertise are Project Management, Marketing, Portfolio and Asset Management. She led the Bancassurance Initiative and also led the Implementation of the greeter station concept testing its functionality in the Nigerian banking sector through a pilot phase in seven branches of Diamond Bank. She had worked also in Broad Bank. As Director of Support Services, she is responsible for all Functional Groups including Human Resources, Legal & Contracts, Procurement, Materials Management, Facilities Management and General Administration except Finance.

Tito Ejenavi

Chief Financial Officer

15+ years of professional finance management with strong background in Financial Management, Internal Control Policies and Procedures, Financial Regulations Implementation (Sarbanes Oxley Audit), Financial Reporting, Taxation and Risk Management. As a Senior Associate in KPMG she led a team in the provision of IFRS conversion services to major manufacturing companies in Nigeria. She has expertise in internal audit and risk assessment. She served as a Senior Accountant with AARP Professional Services. Tito is also an entrepreneur who created Femme Fatale Accessories where she was also the Creative Director overseeing all phases of product development and production. As CFO of SpringRock Group, Tito is responsible for the overall financial health of the business with focus on Profitability, Growth, Risk and Assets Management


Ben Agadagba

Director of Integrity & Sustainability

33 years industry experience. Previously Managing Director of Donos Engineering Nigeria with a focus on providing consulting services for drilling operations and rig management operations, and Executive Director (Operations) for Lonestar Drilling Nigeria. Ben was also previously Operations Manager for Frazimex Nig. Ltd., which was engaged in providing drilling services; Wells HSE Coordinator for Shell (SPDC) and prior to that was responsible for Wells engineer training for SPDC. These were after working for 20 years in several countries overseas with Sedco Forex and ADC

Abiodun Akala

Director of Business Dev. & Operations

21 years industry experience, spanning Oil & Gas, Rig Construction & Consulting. Experienced in business & projects management, drilling, completions and work-over operations, rig contracting, business consulting, in several countries working with major IOCs. Well versed in all aspects of drilling engineering and well delivery services (drilling fluids, cementing, casing design, drill string design, FE; coring, completions and fishing). Led the successfully setup of Oando’s drilling contracting business as pioneer operations manager in charge of 5 rigs. A recipient of the most coveted Transocean’s “First Excellence Award”. Worked also for Maxwell, ARAMCO, Transocean and Oando


Stephen Unachukwu

Legal Counsel

Stephen the SpringRock Group’s legal counsel and has 5 years of experience in legal practices. He has expertise in corporate & commercial legal services including business advisory. He has, strong background in acquisition negotiations and business setups. He has been responsible for floating over 50 business organizations with interests in oil and gas exploration and production, engineering, consultancy services, healthcare, manufacturing, branding, mining, shipping and marine services, general trade, among others. In SpringRock he is responsible to ensure that the group maintains business integrity, provides efficient legal services internally and manages our external legal firms and keeping SpringRock within compliance with all regulations and laws. He is also an advisor to the Management team.