The Board of Directors, Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKDC), has announced the appointment of Dr. Tinuade Sanda, as the Company’s new Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) with immediate effect.
This appointment makes Sanda the first female MD/CEO of the Company, succeeds Adeoye Fadeyibi, who was the erstwhile Chief Executive MD/CEO for four years, according to its official statement.
She is expected to consolidate on the successes achieved in the past few years while progressively advancing and charting a new course for efficient service delivery and excellent business sustainability.
Sanda joined the Company in 2013, as the Chief Treasury and Taxation Officer. She later became the Chief Accounting Officer, where she contributed immensely to the company’s growth by implementing revenue generation initiatives and overseeing critical projects.
She is expected to consolidate on the successes achieved in the past few years while progressively advancing and charting a new course for efficient service delivery and excellent business sustainability.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Institute of Management Consultants, US, and Institute of Professional Financial Managers, London.
She is also an Associate Member of the Risk Management Association of Nigeria (RiMAN), and the Institute of Directors (IoD), Nigeria.
Sanda obtained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK, after graduating with a second-class upper in Financial Accounting from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
On the 5th of December 2020, she was conferred by the Senate and Governing Council of ICON University of Management Science and Technology, Benin, with a Doctor of Philosophy in Financial Management & Entrepreneurship.
Sanda will lead the next phase of EKDC’s growth by aggressively reducing the aggregated technical commercial and collection (ATC&C) losses, increasing energy reliability/availability, and improving the Company’s customer satisfaction index.
