Alhaji Ibrahim Ismail was born in Jigawa State. He began his career immediately after his call to the bar from a Legal Officer to a Principal State Counsel in Kano State Ministry of Justice. He served as the secretary and legal adviser of Kano State Urban Development Board now known as Kano State Environmental Protection Agency (KASEPA)

 

In 1984, he was appointed a member of Kano State Executive Council as a Commissioner of Home Affairs and Information and Education. In 1989, he was appointed Special Assistant to the erstwhile President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

 

Ibrahim Ismail is currently a Principal Partner in the Law Firm of Universal Chambers Abuja and serves as Director of the Board of People’s Media Ltd Telemax, Trusted Pharmacy of West Africa and Chairman of Kainji Aquaculture Resources Ltd.

 

He further enhanced and consolidated his knowledge of corporate governance by undertaking courses on governance: Effectiveness and Accountability in the Boardroom provided by North-western Kellogg and Making Corporate Boards More Effective from Harvard Business School. He currently serves as one of DANA’s Board of Governors.

Alhaji Haruna Zindiwa Babaji’ s education, training, and experience across the range of knowledge of the law and management make him a formidable administrator and advisor.

 

To enhance his undergraduate studies, he took further qualification in Master of Laws thus consolidating his legal expertise. His studies and training overseas in Financing Small and Medium Enterprises in Brazil and Malaysia further augment his experience in applying these parallels in Nigerian contexts.

 

His wealth of experience and knowledge in legal and banking sectors had become his main asset in serving as company secretary. /legal adviser to various organisations: banks, government, and private corporations. Such posts had taken him to various parts of the country like Bauchi, Kaduna Akure and Kano.

 

Alhaji Isa Abubakar’s knowledge and expertise are grounded on accounting and economics. Qualifications attained from the UK, US and Nigeria had given breadth and width perspectives of business.

 

He achieved his A levels and HND Courses in UK as well as his degree in Accounting. Further courses he attended on Trading Oil Supply Chain from Invicible Energy Ltd Cambridge have added in consolidation of his acquired knowledge and information.

 

To enhance his knowledge and to enable him to look at business now on top management portfolio he took further training courses on Finance for Business Executives at Harvard Business School, Boston USA.

 

He has worked for Union Bank, Santana Energy and is currently serving as CEO of Grey Stokes. Currently, he serves as one of the Board of Directors of DANA.

Alhaji Hamid Bawa Muhammed hails from Kebbi State. His formative years of Education was from Zuru and Bida and he continued to further his education by gaining qualifications in Leadership and Management in Port Harcourt and City and Guilds of London Institute with GTC Ilorin. To enhance knowledge and skills he further attained Commercial Instructor’s Certificate of the Royal Navy School of Communications (HMS Drek) with further training in industrial security in India.

 

He had consolidated his skills sets in finishing his undergraduate studies grounded in International Relations. All of these had put him in good stead by serving as Chief Security Officer of Naval Staff, General Staff and to the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His wide range of knowledge served him well as Acting Managing Director of DANA and to currently serve as Executive Director Finance Admin to this present date.

The degree of fit attributes to Mark Snoxell’s success in running businesses here and abroad. He can revive ailing companies and convert negative to positive turnovers. His ability to analyse and prioritise without compromise of standard and build teams to deliver services in a reliable and efficient manner is the hallmark of his competencies.   These ranged from managing non-governmental projects, government funded and private sectors. The successful implementation of an income generating project for a university in the Philippines, raising production and revenue of a private farm in the UK and carefully managing the budget developing a 6000 hectare of the Cotton and Maize Plantation for Upper Benue River Basin Development Authority funded by the World Bank in Yola in the early 80’s, put him in good stead for the subsequent posts held in Nigeria.   The experience and versatile skills set he possess enabled him to move from agriculture to aviation without hindrance; from being Agricultural Projects Manager, MASDAR Kano, to Business Development Manager Dornier/AIEP Kaduna and as Commercial Manager Aero Contractors Lagos. He had effectively ventured to unchartered water in opening domestic and international commercial aviation routes and interline agreements with European carriers.   His sincerity and integrity in conducting business, adhering to regulations and audits has brought Dornier Aviation Nigeria AIEP (DANA) into both domestic and world arenas of the aviation service industry. The company currently provides services to the oil and gas industry and global humanitarian effort.