The Board of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company Plc has appointed Engr Yusuf Usman Yahaya as the new Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
His appointment follows the resignation of Engr Garba Haruna, who has led the Company since 2014 and is moving on to pursue other professional and personal endeavours.
Yahaya assumes leadership of Kaduna Electric with diverse public and private sector experiences and educational background in Petroleum and Gas Engineering from the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria, a Master of Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, and is currently a fellow of Doctor of Philosophy.
He has received training in policy design and evaluation at Oxford University and Harvard University.
Until his appointment, Yahaya was an Expert Consultant with the USAID Nigerian Power Sector Programme and Senior Advisor to the Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency.
Before this time, he led an energy advisory and projects company on investments and the development of proprietary and third-party frontrunner on-and off-grid thermal greenfield renewable projects.
In this role, he has been the lead consultant and advisor on industry agreements and corporate turnaround strategies in the Nigerian electricity distribution sector.
Previously, he was at various times a strategic analyst and specialist at the General Electric Company, working within the Global Growth Organisation on flag-planting and market development strategies on portfolio across Transportation, Power and Water, Healthcare, and Oil and Gas.
He left the company as Country Manager for GE Water & Process Technologies.
Yahaya is a member of several professional associations including the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria, the Nigerian Society of Engineers, the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the Project Management Institute and the Corporate Governance Society of Nigeria.
He is a Fellow of the Nigeria Institution of Power Engineers, a Fellow, a Chartered Institute of Project Managers of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants.
The Board thanked Haruna for his leadership of the Company and his devotion to the organisation.
As a pioneer Managing Director, he has provided a foundation for the Company.
The Board extends its best wishes to Engr Yahaya in his new posting at Kaduna Electric.
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