December 19, (THEWILL) – Oyeyimika Adeboye, the first female Managing Director of Cadbury Nigeria in the last fifty years didn’t rise to her current position without paying her dues in top managerial positions in the country.
She built her career in finance, strategy and business administration in Nigeria and the United Kingdom for over two decades. She learnt the rudiments of business partly from her industrialist father, Late Timothy Adeola Odutola, a foremost indigenous manufacturer.
With a degree in Economics and Accountancy from the University College, Cardiff, Wales, an executive management education certification in Finance and Business Administration from the Institute of Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as qualifying as a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Oyeyimika, no doubt was well prepared for her new appointment.
She returned to Nigeria in the 1990s because she felt she might have career limitation in the United Kingdom as a black female professional. Returning home became a career-defining moment for her. She joined the erstwhile Nigeria accounting and tax practice of Arthur Andersen and Co. She later moved to Nigeria Bottling Company as the Director of Finance and Chief Financial Officer where she worked for three years. She joined the board of Cadbury Nigeria in 2008 as its Finance and Strategy Director, West Africa before she rose to the position of Managing Director of the company.
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