Abayomi Adeola Akindele B.Sc, MBA, PGDID,MNSE, R.Engr., FIMC, CMC, FNIMN, MASHRAE.
Engr. Abayomi Adeola Akindele had his elementary education at St. Andrew’s Demonstration School, Oyo from 1972-1978.
In September 1978 he was admitted into Oranyan Grammar School, Oyo for his Secondary education and passed out of the school in 1983 with WASC O’ Level in Sciences.
From 1983 to 1984 he was at Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo for his Higher School Certificate. In 1984 Adeola gained admission into University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) to study Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He graduated with honours in 1989 and was posted to Plateau State for the one-year national youth service. During the service year, he was at Consolidated Tin Mines and its subsidiary, Minesfield Engineering Limited, Bukuru, near Jos, for his primary assignment. Between 1997 and 2001 he was at University of Ilorin for his M.B.A. specializing in Market Oriented Integrated Logistics.
In June 1991, he was employed as a management trainee with Nigerian Foundries Limited, Ilupeju, Lagos. October 1993 he was headhunted by Omolayole and Associates to work for Bata Plc as a Factory Manager. While with Bata Plc he held various positions as: Factory Manager, Operations Planning Manager and General Sales Manager. In 2001 he moved to UAC Foods as the National Sales Manager and later on as the Divisional Supply Chain Director.
The French multinational, Schneider Electric, offered him the position of Distribution Channel Manager (Anglophone WA) in 2004 where he was till 2011 when he ventured into private business registered as Edifice Compo International Limited based in Lagos, Nigeria. In April 2014, he joined the Board of Perabeam Limited as Managing Director/ CEO. From August 2019 to May 2020 he was part of global professionals that participated in Post Graduate Studies in Innovation and Design Thinking organized by Emeritus Institute of Management, Singapore.
Abayomi Adeola Akindele is a Registered Engineer with COREN, Member Nigerian Society of Engineers, Member American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Fellow Institute of Management Consultants, Certified Management Consultant and Fellow National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria. He is married with children.
He loves playing table tennis, reading, listening to music and watching football.