Nigerian Breweries Appoints 2 New Board Members
Nigerian Breweries Plc has announced the appointment of Board Members – Ibrahim Puri from Nigeria and Ben Wessels Boer from Netherlands, who will also serve as the new finance director of the company.
This was revealed in a notice to the Nigeria Exchange Limited, signed by the company secretary/legal director, Uaboi Agbebaku, on Monday, stated that the appointment of Ibrahim Puri is effective August 1, 2022, while that of Ben Wessels Boer takes effect from September 1, 2022.
Until his appointment, Ibrahim Puri was an executive director with United Bank for Africa (UBA), responsible for the bank’s operations in Northern Nigeria.
He joins the NB Plc board as a non-executive director with over 30 years of cognate banking experience encompassing operations, marketing, retail, corporate banking, and human resource management.
On his part, Ben Wessels Boer is the outgoing Finance Director, Al Ahram Beverages in Egypt where his broad financial experience was deployed towards improving efficiency and business results despite the negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the company.
