Board Members
Ronald Adams
All On Board Chairman
Mr. Ronald Adams is a senior energy sector executive with over three decades of experience in the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. He has held leadership positions in operations, engineering and business development in Trinidad and Tobago and North America.
Mr. Adams was appointed as the Managing Director of the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo) effective October 1st, 2024, where he currently leads the delivery of Shell’s Deepwater strategy in the Gulf of Guinea. Prior to this, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic LNG of Trinidad and Tobago, making history as the first local to hold the position in its 25 years of operation.
Throughout his extensive career, Ron has held numerous leadership roles including General Manager, Upstream Assets at Shell Trinidad and Tobago Ltd., with responsibility for many key areas of the business, including production, reservoir and facilities management, and engineering. His expertise extends beyond upstream operations, having served as Vice President, Operations at the National Gas Company of Trinidad & Tobago. Additionally, he has a deep understanding of the downstream petrochemical sector, with experience in ammonia and refinery operations.
Ron is a transformational leader with the ability to quickly grasp key business drivers and develop key strategies for achieving excellence by building focused, aligned, and high-performing teams. He is passionate about service and mentoring and has championed many initiatives over the years, including co-founding a non-profit organization to improve the lives of those less fortunate.
Ron has well-established relationships with regional and global energy industry leaders, with previous directorships for the Boards of the Energy Chamber of Trinidad and Tobago, United Way of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Environmental Management Authority, to name a few.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of the West Indies, and an international MBA, with a specialization in Strategic Planning from Herriot-Watt University (Edinburgh). He is also a Distinguished Alumnus (2023) of the University of the West Indies.
Outside of work, Ron loves to spend quality time with his family. He is an avid reader and enjoys staying abreast of diverse global issues.
Keibi Dienye Atemie
All On Company Secretary
Head of Legal, Nigeria & Company Secretary, Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN)
Keibi qualified as a Legal Practitioner called to bar in Nigeria in 1989.
She joined The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) in 2001, after 9 years’ experience in private legal practice and in the banking industry. In the past 20 years, she has supported a diverse portfolio of the operations of SCiN including litigation, pension funds, aviation, downstream oil products, gas distribution and commercial transactions.
In 2001, as Legal Adviser Litigation, she managed the cases against SCIN in Lagos. She became Senior Legal Counsel, Downstream, providing support to Shell Oil Products, gas distribution and Aviation teams in Nigeria. In 2006, as Managing Counsel, Partner & Commercial Agreements and Legal Manager for Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited, managed a team of lawyers supporting all commercial and partner related transactions for SCIN. She was lead lawyer in several high value projects including the successful negotiations of the Modified Carry Agreements with the Federal Government on alternative funding for JV Operations and the 2010-2014 divestments of SPDC’s interest in several oil mining leases in Nigeria.
In 2016, she became Managing Counsel Global Litigation, Sub Sahara Africa, responsible for the management of a large portfolio of litigation for Shell in Nigeria and South Africa, contributing to the significant reduction of the Litigation portfolio for Shell in Nigeria. She also double hatted as the Deputy Country Head of Legal for SCiN from 2010-2019.
Keibi is a member of the Nigeria Bar Association and AIPN. She is married with children and enjoys playing scrabble, mentoring and counselling in her spare time. She is actively involved in her local church activities where she is an ordained Deaconess.
Chukwuemeka Jideofor Akwaeze
All On Board Director
Chukwuemeka Jideofor (CJ) is a finance professional with 25 years of finance experience, including over 20 years with Shell and earlier roles in professional services.
He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) in the UK, where he worked in Assurance and Business Advisory Services. He later joined Shell in Aberdeen and held multiple roles across Shell’s businesses—including Upstream, Integrated Gas, Downstream, Trading, and Renewables—covering various regions (Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South America, and the USA) and a broad range of activities, most notably general financial management and mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
He currently serves as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President Finance for Shell Nigeria, overseeing finance activities for Shell’s continuing businesses in Nigeria following the company’s divestment of the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) in 2025. Prior to this, CJ was Finance Director at SPDC, where he led the financial management of one of Nigeria’s largest oil and gas joint ventures.
From 2019 to 2023, he was based in London as Shell’s Global Downstream Controller and Vice President for Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), leading Shell’s downstream FP&A and controllership functions. Earlier, he spent a decade working on Shell’s global M&A and commercial finance activities, supporting transactions across multiple energy sectors and geographies.
In addition to his corporate responsibilities, CJ is active in governance and impact investing. He serves as a Director and Chair of the Investment Committee at both Shell Nigeria Closed Pension Fund Administrators (SNCPFA)—the largest closed pension fund in Nigeria—and All On, a non-profit initiative promoting off-grid energy access.
CJ holds a First-Class Honours degree in Economics and Accounting from the University of Reading, an MSc in Energy Finance from the University of Dundee, and an MBA from London Business School, along with executive education from Harvard Business School and INSEAD. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA).
He values professionalism, continuous learning, and service. His interests include global economics and politics, sustainable development, automotive engineering, classical music, and spending time with family.
Rolake Akinkugbe-Filani
All On Board Director
Rolake is a distinguished C-level executive with a unique blend of experience in energy, infrastructure, financial services and the media. She is currently an Investor Relations & Corporate Development executive in a leading tier-1 financial institution, where she manages critical relationships with institutional investors, asset managers, capital markets stakeholders, coordinates fundraising strategy, and leads the expansion strategy of the institution across African and international markets.
She has held senior executive leadership roles in infrastructure development, development finance, investment banking and risk consulting, including with IFU (the Danish Investment Fund), and the infrastructure subsidiary of ARM Group. She was also head of energy for FBN Capital and FBNQuest Merchant Bank, where she led the origination and structuring of debt and equity transactions for energy companies. During this time, she was also a member from 2017-2019 of the private sector economic advisory group advising the then Chief Economic Adviser of the President (OVP), on a range of national development policy issues.
Rolake was also previously Group Head of the award-winning energy research team at pan-African Ecobank Group covering 33 African markets out of London. In her very early career, she worked as a country risk analyst with Control Risks Group and Eurasia Group and worked in international affairs and development with the Development Directorate Générale of the European Commission in Brussels and the International Crisis Group in Dakar, Senegal.
Recognised as a Top Female Global influencer in Energy, in 2020, by the UK’s Energy Council, she was also named a Young Economic leader in Africa under 40, by the Choiseul Institute (2018, 2019 & 2020) and was listed in the Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) 100 Under 40 in the 2018 Business Category.
She has a BSc & an MSc degree from the London School of Economics (LSE). and a joint MBA degree from TRIUM, a program of the London School of Economics, HEC School of Management Paris and NYU’s Leonard Stern School of Business. She is a founding member of Nigeria's Women in Energy Network (WIEN), and a member of the Board of Trustees of WIMBIZ, Nigeria's leading women's empowerment network. She also sits on the global board of Save the Children International, as a non-executive director, serving also as a member of its Audit and Risk Committee.
