Mansur Ahmed is the founding Chairman of FFL. Mansur Ahmed is currently the Director General and Chief Executive of Nigeria Economic Summit Group, a position he assumed in January 2004 following his retirement from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. He had been involved in the Nigerian Economic Summit in 1993. Engineer Ahmed has a first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Nottingham University (1972) and a Masters degree in industrial Engineering and Administration From Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University 1975) both in the UK. He also has a postgraduate certificate in Investment Appraisal and Management from the Harvard Institute of International Development among other qualifications. Mansur began his working life in 1972 as a Research Assistant with the Epsom Research Laboratories, UK. He returned to Nigeria in February 1973 and joined the Ahmed Bello University as an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Three years later he worked in the various manufacturing industries including Dunlop Nigeria industries Limited, Bagauda Textiles Limited and Kaduna Textiles Limited. In 1984, he joined the New Nigerian Development Company Limited (NNDC), a development finance company with subsidiaries in various sectors in manufacturing, commence and banking. He was Executive Director in charge of the Construction and Building Products Division, which oversaw the company’s investments in cement manufacturing, steel and aluminium fabrication and other building materials. In 1988 he transferred his service to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He served the Corporation from 1988 to 2003 in various capacities including Managing Director and Chief Executive at Port Harcourt Refining Company (1988-91) and Managing Director and Chief Executive at Port Harcourt Refining Company (1992- 99) . In July 1999 he was appointed Group Executive Director in charge of the Corporation’s Refining and Petrochemical Directorate. He retired from the corporation in August 2003. Ahmed is a fellow of the Nigeria of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and the Nigerian Institute of Management. He is a non-executive member of the board of directors of Dunlop Nigeria plc and serves on Many National committees including the following: The Nigerian Vision 2010 Committee; The Oil and Gas Sub-Committee of the National Privatization Council; The National working Group for the conduct of the African Peer Review Mechanism in Nigeria; The Committee on the Assessment and Monitoring of the Millennium Development Goal; The National Council on Reforms.

Orisunmbola Oyawoye is the Executive Director in charge of the Downstream and Power Division of FFL. Sunmbola is a First Class graduate of Mechanical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (Nigeria) as well as an eleven award recipient over the course of study from Shell, Mobil, Elf, NBL, Volkswagen and WAPCO amongst others. He completed a Masters Programme in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering in 1993 from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Sunmbola has been in private practice for over twelve years. He has successfully run Titan Information Technology Limited and SunFirst Limited; both companies provide Information & Communication Technology services to the Oil and Gas as well as the Banking sectors of the Nigerian economy. Sunmbola is also a founding director of Rapid Shelter Development Company Limited, a firm of real estate and property development consultants that provide affordable housing services nationwide. A versatile engineer and an astute businessman, Sunmbola brings to FFL several years of experience in business development, finance and project management.