Mr. Kazeem Raimi

Biography

Mr. Raimi was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director effective 18 May 2022. Mr.  Raimi is a nominee of Platform Petroleum Limited replacing Mr. Austin Avuru who stepped down from the Board of Seplat Energy on 1 March 2022. Mr. Raimi is presently the Executive Director, Commercial for Platform Petroleum Limited. Previously with Seplat Energy as General Manager, Commercial, Mr. Raimi was charged with the responsibility for driving commercial, economics, valuation, planning and treasury activities across the entire organisation. He also served previously as Manager, Corporate Planning and Economics at Seplat Energy.

Experience

Mr. Raimi has extensive experience in project economics, commercial negotiation and operations and risk analysis having been Lead Petroleum Economics and Commercial Advisor at Addax Petroleum where he also served in different capacities in Nigeria and at the HeadOffice in Switzerland. He has significant involvement in commercial and economic evaluations of new ventures, farm-in and company acquisition opportunities with a thorough appreciation of tax, fiscal issues and project economics especially as they relate to Nigeria, Gabon, Iraq and Cameroon. Prior to this, Mr. Raimi served as Treasury Manager at Cadbury Nigeria Plc and Audit Finance Analyst at Citibank Nigeria Limited. In addition to his role at Platform Petroleum Limited, Mr. Raimi also serves as a Non-Executive Director at PNG Gas Limited, Egbaoma Gas Processing Company Limited and Ase River Transport Company Limited. 

Mr. Raimi holds a First-Class Honors in Economics from the University of Ibadan, an MSc in Oil and Gas Economics from the University of Dundee and has undertaken several courses including the Certificate of Management Excellence at Harvard Business School.

Date of appointment

May 18, 2022