Board Chairman
Oladeji .O. Laditan is a 1985 graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Lagos. He joined Mobil Oil plc in the year 1987 and retired in 2008. His 21 years working career spanned various departments, including sales, marketing, operation, security, planning, and engineering.
Recently, he has been in private business as an entrepreneur – concentrating on Facilities management. He is a shareholder in many business concerns, spanning Health, Oil and Gas, Hospitality, and Transport sectors.
He developed information technology and management exposure from his role as the Group Financial Controller of the accredited Nigerian representative of world leaders such as Compaq, Hewlett Packard, and American Power Conversion. He moved this company from negative income through a reordering of processes, improved funding and relationship management, product margins, and order volume/cycle management to significant profits within a year.
A stint with Capital Alliance, Nigeria’s first private equity firm with a commitment fund of $35mln, with investors including IFC (a member of the World Bank Group), provided him with insight into investment management and profit optimization.
He has now led Alpha Partners into various lucrative long-term investment deals and activities in Oil and Gas, Telecommunications, Banking, Information Technology, Real Estate, and Chemical Manufacturing.
