Funmi Baba Dada

Executive Director (Operations & Finance) at TECO Group

Speaker

Mrs. Babatunde-Dada is the current Executive Director (Operations & Finance) for TECO Group with subsidiaries operating in Oil and Gas Services, Palm Oil Processing Construction and Poultry and Meat Processing Engineering. Her extensive experience spans a period of nearly 20 years occupying varying roles in consulting companies such as Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers both in the United Kingdom and Nigeria. She has managed and delivered on a range of assignments for multinational clients across Africa and the UK in the Agriculture Industry, Manufacturing Industry, and the Oil and Gas Industry. Over the last 5 years, she has focused on delivering projects in the Palm Oil Mill industry, successfully managing teams that fabricate, install and commission Mechanised Palm Oil Mills all over Nigeria. She believes building Mechanized Palm Oil Mills across the nation is one of the quickest routes to bringing infrastructure to rural areas while creating jobs which in turn reduce national poverty levels and supports the country's economic growth. She has a strong ability to identify initiatives and facilitate action driven plans to support growth and objectives in organizations. She is a cofounder of a registered women led charity that supports less privileged citizens in Nigeria. She is a graduate of the University of Sheffield, UK, a fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants, a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and a part of the Stanford Seed Transformation Program.