Guinness Nigeria Plc has notified the Nigerian Exchange Limited and the investing public of a further change to its Board of Directors in line with the completion of majority share transfer to N Seven Nigeria Limited as follows:
- Resignation of Mr Emmanuel Difom as Finance and Strategy Director with effect from 31 October, 2024
- Appointment of Mr Mayank Kabra as Finance and Strategy Director with effect from 1 November, 2024
Mayank Kabra is a versatile, result-oriented professional with over 20 years’ experience in building high performance teams, providing finance stewardship, fundraising and executing complex high-impact projects. He has a proven track record of leading large, cross-cultural and multi-functional teams as well as recruiting and mentoring people to progressively handle larger responsibilities.
Mayank has significant international experience having worked across diverse geographies like India, Malaysia and Nigeria. He started his career with PWC India in Risk Advisory and Internal Audit Services in 2003 and began independently managing large, critical clients from 2006 onwards across diverse industry segments such as metals and mining, pharmaceuticals, textiles and consumer products. He has worked in a variety of finance roles with Mondelez and Kellogg (now Kellanova) in India and Malaysia. In March 2016, Mayank was appointed the CFO – West Africa for Kellogg Tolaram Joint Venture. He was instrumental in funding the JV’s first cereals and snacks manufacturing business in addition to setting up the noodles manufacturing business in South Africa.
In his most recent role, Mayank was responsible for the greenfield SAP implementation across the consumer goods business of Tolaram in Africa where he setup a team of over 80 professionals on-shore and off-shore to operationalise the project across Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Eswatini. Mayank’s educational and professional background includes a degree from University of Pune (India) and membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN).