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Mrs. Juliet Anammah

Chair

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Mr. Thibaut François Baptiste BOIDIN

Managing Director / CEO

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Uaboi Godfrey Agbebaku, Esq.

Company Secretary

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Mrs. Olufunmilayo Akande

Independent Non-Executive Director

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Mrs. Adeyinka O. Aroyewun​

Independent Non-Executive Director

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Mr. Guillaume Bernard Marie Duverdier

Non-Executive Director

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Mrs. Stella Ojekwe-Onyejeli

Independent Non-Executive Director

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Mr. Jaap Antoon Overmars

Non-Executive Director

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Mr. Roland Pirmez

Non-Executive Director

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Mr. Ibrahim Ajimasu Puri

Non-Executive Director

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Mr. Bernardus Antonius Wessels Boer

Executive Director

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Mrs Juliet Anammah

Chair

Mrs. Juliet Anammah was appointed to the Board of Directors (as an Independent Non-Executive Director) effective 01 January, 2022. She has over thirty (30) years of professional experience covering Consulting, Consumer Goods, Sales, Marketing, E- Commerce and Sustainability. She is the immediate past Chair Nigeria and Chief Group Sustainability Officer, Jumia, having previously held the role of Chief Executive Officer with Jumia. She had also served as the Managing Director, Accenture LLC in charge of the firm’s Consumer Goods Practice, Retail and Transportation practice in West Africa. She serves on the boards of local and international organisations, including Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc and Development Bank of Nigeria where was recently appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director.

Mr. Thibaut Francois Baptiste BIODIN

Managing Director / CEO

Thibaut F.B Boidin was appointed Managing Director/CEO and member of the Board of Nigerian Breweries Plc, effective July 1, 2025.

He joined the HEINEKEN Group in 2017 as Deputy CEO of France Boissons and, in 2020, expanded his responsibilities to include the role of Chief Transformation Officer for HEINEKEN France. He subsequently served as Chief Transformation Officer for HEINEKEN Europe, based in Amsterdam.

Until his appointment to Nigerian Breweries, Mr. Boidin was the Managing Director of HEINEKEN Romania, one of the Group’s largest operations in Eastern Europe.

Prior to joining HEINEKEN, Mr. Boidin served as an officer in the French Armed Forces across various continents. He later transitioned to the corporate sector, where he held senior executive and Managing Director roles in leading French organisations, including Elis and Veolia.

Uaboi G. Agbebaku, Esq.

Company Secretary

Mr. Agbebaku was appointed as Secretary to the Board of Directors and the Legal Adviser effective the 1st of January, 2008. He joined the Company in January, 2003 as the Legal Affairs Manager. Before then, he was in private practice as a legal practitioner with the law firm of David Garrick & Co.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators of Nigeria. Mr. Agbebaku is also the Company’s Legal Director.

Mrs. Olufunmilayo Akande

Non-Executive Director

Olufunmilayo Akande joined the Board as an Independent Non-Executive Director effective 20th February 2025.

She brings to the Board more than thirty years of experience in auditing, finance, accounting, consulting, corporate governance, and business management amongst others across various sectors including consulting, manufacturing, and oil and gas. She is currently the Finance Director for Siemens Energy Limited Nigeria (since 2013) as well as the Vice President Finance for the North, West, and Central Africa sub-regions for Siemens Energy (since 2022).   She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation.

Mrs. Adeyinka O. Aroyewun

Non-Executive Director

Mrs. Aroyewun, a lawyer with over 33 years of legal experience spanning various aspects of business and law joined the Board of Directors effective the 1st of January, 2019. She is an internationally accredited mediator of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR), UK; a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK; and an IMI Certified Mediator. She is currently the Director of the Lagos Multi-Door Courthouse.

She is an experienced trainer in Alternative Dispute Resolution techniques for members and was part of a team of certified trainers on the World Bank project for the expansion of ADR mechanisms and institutions in Nigeria.
Mrs. Aroyewun sits on the Governing Council of the University of Lagos; NCMG College of Negotiation; and the Edo State Multi-Door Courthouse. She is on the panel of Neutrals of the National Communications Commission, Nigeria.

Mr. Guillaume Bernard Marie Duverdier

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Guillaume B.M. Duverdier was appointed a Non-Executive Director effective on the 30th of July 2025. Mr. Duverdier is a seasoned executive within the HEINEKEN Group and brings to the Board over two decades of strategic and operational experience across Europe, Africa, and Latin America. He was recently appointed the HEINEKEN Regional President for Africa and the Middle East.

Mrs. Stella Ojekwe-Onyejeli

Non-Executive Director

Mrs. Ojekwe-Onyejeli was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director effective 01 January, 2024.  She has more than thirty (30) years of experience in Enterprise Risk Management, Business Planning, Internal Audit, Analytical Skills and Banking. Mrs. Ojekwe-Onyejeli also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director at Rand Merchant Bank, Saroafrica International Limited, First Pension Custodian Nigeria Limited and Coronation Insurance Plc. She was formerly an Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer at the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority and Director & Head of Operational Risk and Control at Barclays Bank.

Mr. Jaap Antoon Overmars

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Overmars joined the Board as a Non-Executive Director effective 25th October, 2023. He has over twenty-one (21) years of accounting and reporting, commercial business control and finance operations management experience in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry.

He is the Senior Director (Africa/Middle East/Eastern Europe region) of Heineken N.V. and is responsible for leading the finance strategies in the Region through delivering sustainable growth and value creation. Prior to this role, he was the Senior Director Finance at Heineken Mexico. He holds an Executive Master of Finance and Control (2006), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Mr. R. Pirmez

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Pirmez joined the Board of Directors effective the 1st of September, 2015 shortly after becoming the Heineken Regional President for Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe.

He started his Heineken career in 1995 and has held general management positions within the Heineken N.V. Group in Africa, Asia and Europe, including the position of the Regional President for Asia Pacific.

Mr. Ibrahim Puri

Non-Executive Director

Mr. Ibrahim Puri was appointed as a Non-Executive Director and member of the Nigerian Breweries Plc Board effective August 1, 2022

Mr. Puri brings over 30 years of cognate banking experience encompassing operations, marketing, retail, corporate banking, and human resource management.

Until July 2022, He was an Executive Director with United Bank for Africa Plc, responsible for the bank’s operations in Northern Nigeria and prior to this, He managed Universal Trust Bank’s business in Northern Nigeria for more than a decade.

Ben Wessels Boer

FINANCE DIRECTOR

Mr. Boer was appointed the Finance Director and a member of the Board of Directors effective the 1st of September 2022.

Prior to his appointment to the Board, Mr. Boer was the Finance Director of Al-Ahram Beverages, the HEINEKEN operating company in Egypt. He joined HEINEKEN in 2004 and thereafter held senior management positions in finance, control, and accounting functions in HEINEKEN operating companies in the Europe and the Americas.