Amy Jadesimi
Amy Jadesimi is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL), an indigenous Oil & Gas fabrication and multi-logistics services base in Nigeria. She oversees the growth of West Africa’s largest logistics and engineering facility operating in a free trade zone. Amy Jadesimi is committed to the development of Nigeria as a hub for maritime and oil & gas logistics in West Africa as well as the promotion of Nigerian and African economic growth via infrastructure development and job creation.
Amy completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford, a Bachelor of Medicine from the same university and a Master of Business Administration and Global Management certificate from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Before assuming the role of MD/CEO, LADOL in 2009, Amy served as Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer from 2004 to 2009. Through LADOL, she joined the Venture Strategies for Health and Development (VSHD) organization where she worked with other Nigerian doctors and birth attendants to reduce the high rate of maternal mortality in Nigeria.
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Amy started her career in the Investment Banking division of Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm where she worked in London from 1999 to 2002, focusing on mergers, acquisition, and corporate finance. After Goldman Sachs, Amy worked briefly at Brait Private Equity as a Transaction Executive in 2003.
With a passion for sustainable development, she served as Commissioner at the Business and Sustainable Development Commission, a business commission created to make the business case for Sustainable Development Goals or Global Goals.
An outstanding business executive, Amy is the recipient of several international awards and recognitions including the Desmond Tutu African Leadership Fellowship Award in 2012, Rising Talent Award by Women’s Forum for Economy and Society in 2013, the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader Award, also in 2013; Forbes’ 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa, 2014; Financial Times’ one of the Top 25 Africans to Watch, 2015; and Forbes World’s Top 50 Women in Tech, 2018.