Engr. Akin Odumakinde

Akin Odumakinde has over 25 years cognate experience in the Oil and Gas industry with 5 years spent in the Exploration and Production sub-sector of the Oil & Gas Industry in the United States of America. He is a graduate of Chemical Engineering from the University of California, USA and a renowned Oil & Gas expert with extensive skills in the global Oil & Gas industry.

He continued his career in Nigeria in 1993 by establishing DeltaTek Engineering Limited. Building on the success of a Joint Venture agreement between DeltaTek Engineering and a leading global Engineering company, he went on to pioneer similar Joint Venture Agreements in several Sub-Saharan African countries between DeltaTek Engineering Limited and other International companies. This local/international partnership model has successfully delivered on the aspirations of African governments in building local capacity within their various countries.

In the last 20 years, he has been championing the cause of private sector initiatives geared towards human capacity building and effective technology transfer to the Sub-Sahara African Oil and Gas industries leading to localization of project work, increment of GDP and significantly improving domestication of Capital for economic development.  His leadership skill has driven these local companies to be leading Project Delivery Services Companies of choice in their countries.

He is a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSCE) and Member of Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), Member, Institute of Directors (IoD), Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), Member, Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), Member, Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), and other professional bodies. Akin is an entrepreneur par excellence who is adept at building companies from formative stages to large, stable and mature organizations.