LADOL: Leading the pack, Opens Nigeria Deep Water Reserves, Create Employments
…Amy Jadesimi Flies Kite Higher
Alphonsus Effi
Born into the aristocratic family of the late Chief Festus Okotie Eboh, a granddaughter of Alero Okotie Eboh (1912-1966) who got married to Chief Oladipo Jadesimi, Dr Amy Jadesimi is a successful industrialist, and entrepreneur, a medical doctor and a management exponential.
Amy’s father Chief Oladipo Jadesimi is the Chairman of LADOL and like Aliko Dangote who happened to be the grandson of Alhaji Hassan Dantata (1877-1955) maternally, one of the earliest merchants in colonial Africa dealing with UAC, Amy Jadesimi is also a granddaughter to the pioneer Finance Minister of Nigeria, Chief Festus Okotie Eboh (Omimi Ejoor), one of the initiators of the Central Bank of Nigeria in the First Republic Nigeria (1960-1966).
Dr Amy Jadesimi had her education at Benenden School in the United Kingdom and then at the University of Oxford where she bagged a BA in Physiological Sciences and BMBch in Medicine in 1999 and later earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Jadesimi a stout industrialist of no mean repute is a sister to Emma McQuiston, a fashion model who is now Marchioness of Bath; the first black Marchioness in British history.
After her medical studies, she was recruited by Goldman Sachs and started working in the investment banking division of the firm in their London branches for five years, while displaying her dexterity in Oxford, Golden Sachs beckons on the beautiful and brilliant Jadesimi and they benefited from her wealth of knowledge.
As a keen intellectual, she went ahead to pursue an MBA at Standford University, she triumphantly graduated and had a one-year internship at Brait S.E in Johannesburg, South Africa where she worked in a private equity division as a transaction executive.
In 2004, Amy relocated back to Nigeria and joined LADOL, a logistic firm strategically positioned at the entry point of Lagos harbour, founded by her industrialist father, Chief Oladipo in 2001 and rose to become the Chief Executive Officer. At LADOL, Amy joined the Venture Strategic for Health Organization where she concerted other medical practitioners in the effort to roll back the maternal mortality prevalence rate in the country. Part of her achievements in the course of this assignment was that the medication and drugs provided curtailed the prevalence rate of maternal mortality which was too high and out of the reach of millions of expectant mothers.
In concert, the VSHD came up with drugs that are effective and affordable to expectant mothers under the Supervision of the VSHD. Outside LADOL, Amy had a stint in Prince’s Trust International Global Advisory Board and is the founding Commissioner of the Business and Sustainable Development and a Forbes contributor, a guest panellist at the London Business School and African Summit where she spoke on investment, growth and development in the continent and participated in the piece called: “Remember To Rise” for her excellence and prowess.
In 2012, Jadesimi was named an Archbishop Desmond Tutu Fellow. In 2013, she was named a ‘Young Global Leader’ by the World Economic Forum. Also that same year, she was given the title of ‘Rising Talent’ by The Women Forum for the Economy and Society. Forbes included her in the 2014 20 youngest frontier women in Africa article while the Financial Times named her one of the top 25 Africans to Watch.
LADOL is anchored around an initial 200 m quay with 8.5 meters drift plans and is even underway to expand the quay length to 1000 meters. The logistic firm is a fully integrated, independent and secured base anchored around a-200 quay with a deep 8.5 draft.
The Quay provides Stevedoring and Cargo handling with efficient discharge and loading of cargoes. Meanwhile, the Base provides all logistical services including warehousing.
LADOL has excellent shipping logistic infrastructures including telecommunications, sewage system, water, fuel transportation networks as well as top quality accommodation and recreational facilities. Suffice to say here that LADOL is the first and only BASE specifically designed to meet the logistical needs of deepwater offshore oil and gas operations/projects in and around Nigeria. As the first and only facility of its kind in Lagos, LADOL was established to ensure that Nigeria benefits directly from its deep offshore oil and gas reserves, LADOL a one-stop-shop for multinational industrial and oil and gas companies operating in West Africa provides world-class facilities and services to encourage multinational firms exploring the deepwater reserves and also utilising Nigerian companies to service the operations thereby creating jobs for Nigerian as well as ensuring training, knowledge and technology transfer into the country. The BASE has round the clock power water internet access and all the other conveniences of modern life, The BASE uses the latest infrastructure, IT and personnel security solutions.
To crown it all, LADOL engaged in joint Venture activities with SAMSUNG to develop a point where a foreign company would be her technical partner in building the facility. This is of strategic significance for the Nigerian economy to have a partnership that cut-across two separate industries (Construction and Telecommunication). LADOL has decided to build with SAMSUNG an Offshore fabrication and Vessel integration facility. It is essentially a shipbuilding facility intended to build and repair a wide range of vessels. The first contract was to build a floating production, storage and offloading vessels (or FPSOs) for the Engine project, a total Upstream Nigerian project, and the creation of a new deepwater offshore blocker. This is not only the first of its kind in Nigeria but also the first of its kind in Africa.
LADOL with Amy Jadesimi at the managerial apex has a range of vibrant teams to stand the corporate task under her leadership and lead private sector initiatives in the deepwater sector. LADOL is a job-creating firm as many young graduates and school leavers had found a source of leaving in the opportunities opened up in the Deep Water Offshore logistic sector. More investment is required to put the pioneer firm on a stronger path and a public-private sector partnership cannot be out of place. When African women of the vibrant entrepreneurship aptitudes are being fielded Dr Amy Jadesimi cannot be excluded. She is a source of inspiration to many in a male-dominated society.
