The Chairman, LASACO Assurance Plc, Edward Akin Leigh, is dead. He was 65.
In a statement, the management of the underwriting firm said Leigh who died on Monday, November 4, was an administrator, oil and gas, and business management consultant.
He attended the Methodist Boys’ High School and King’s College, Lagos from 1961 to 1967; and graduated from University of Ibadan, Oyo State in 1971.
He also attended the Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States where he obtained MBA in 1974.
He was a recipient of several academic and professional honours and awards. He was a John F. Kennedy scholar at Ibadan from 1968 to 1971; a Fulbright-Hays scholar at Wisconsin from 1972 to 1974; and National Young Manager of the Year (1975), among others.
His work experience spanned over 23 years with Mobil Nigeria including extensive tours of duty and several training developmental attachments with Mobil affiliates and companies in Africa, Europe and USA during which he held a variety of key management and senior executive positions in supply and distribution, planning, logistics, and coordination, downstream engineering and operations, and marketing.
He voluntarily retired as General Manager, Operations, Mobil, in early 1994 to organise his own firm, Petroleigh O. G. C. International Limited, an Oil and Gas coastal bunkering and marine support services company with operational bases in Lagos, Warri and Port Harcourt.
His other professional and business activities included Group Managing Directorship of Services and Materials Management Company Limited (SMMC Group), a multi-faceted business and project management consultancy and general services company, as well as directorships in Rotoy Private School, Lekki.
He was a member of several professional, social and recreational clubs and associations: Institute of Directors, Nigeria; American Management Association; Rotary Club International (Paul Harris Fellow and Past Rotarian President); Lagos Motor Boat Club; Ikoyi Club 1938; Yoruba Tennis Club, Alumni Associations of the University of Ibadan and University of Wisconsin, U.S.A; Honorary Citizen – Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.A., Executive Officer, Lagos State Scouts Council etc.
Leigh’s professional experience, special skills and areas of specialisation include Petroleum Economics and Financials; Transformational Strategy, Profit Optimisation, Change Management, Business Modeling Processes, Confidence Building, Business and Management Policies and Practices in Emerging Economies.
His over three decades of the highlighted multidisciplinary professional experience and skills have frequently been called upon to work as a consultant, member, resource person, policy adviser and analysts on various government and private sector projects on indigenous participation in petroleum liquids transportation; managing in a regulated economy; crisis management; creative problem solving; building a winning team; strategy formulation; etc.
He held traditional titles of “Baaloro of Itoku” and “AsiwajuGbadeniyi of Egba Land”.
