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Our Mission:
We make
strategy work
for our clients.
Our Vision:
To be the African
consulting firm of
choice to businesses,
governments and
institutions.

Execution Edge Limited
Execution Edge is an advisory and management
consulting firm with strong capabilities and
experience in the development and execution of
strategy. We partner with our clients to achieve
success by providing value-driven financial
and enterprise transformation solutions. Our
services cut across various facets of businesses,
governments and institutions.
With a team of highly skilled and experienced
professionals, we deliver innovative and
practical “hands on” advisory services that will
give our clients a competitive edge in the
market place.
Our core values, “Client Success”,
“Innovation”, “Teamwork” and “Integrity” are
the guiding principles in our relationships with
all key stakeholders (clients, communities,
agencies, our people, and external business
partners).
We go beyond great thinking, we make
strategy work for our clients.
We deliver
innovative
and effective
solutions

Companies are focused
on growth and capturing
market share. They are
striving to innovate and
improve business
performance, effectively
manage through crises,
and extract the greatest
amount of value from
transactions. And, they
want to work with
partners that really
understand their
industry and unique
business problems.
Execution Edge brings a combination of
executive leadership experience, strong
commercial and analytical skills to make strategy
work for our clients.
We are differentiated by a deep understanding of
our chosen markets, multi-industry and multi-
disciplinary leadership experience and delivery
of superior value to our clients.
We enable our clients’ success by leveraging
these unique capabilities to develop and sustain
their competitive edge.
We make strategy work for our clients.
Value Proposition
Our capabilities includes the following:
 Strategy
 Business Process Improvement
 Finance
 Information Technology
 Governance, Risk and Compliance
 Project Delivery Management
 Project Delivery Assurance
 Human Capital Management
o Recruitment support
o Management Secondment Services

Strategy
Your business or
organisation probably
has a strategy. But is
your strategy well
thought out,
articulated and
properly communicated
to all your key
stakeholders?
We provide deep industry and technical knowledge, supported
by in-depth rigorous market and financial analysis, to provide
unique insights that underpin your strategy enabling you to
deliver the best results for your business at operating unit and
corporate or group levels. We provide support in the areas of
business unit strategy, transaction services, valuation,
economics, brand/intellectual property management and risk
management.
We can help if:
 You need help to analyse and research your business
environment.
 You want independent, objective evaluation and validation of
your management strategy, including whether you have the
right mix of businesses.
 You want an efficient and effective communication of your
strategy in order to achieve a “shared vision” within your
organisation.
 You want robust ‘stress testing’ of your strategy and its
underlying assumptions.
 You want to identify and understand the full financial and
economic implications of your investment/divestment
options.
 You want to identify and capitalize on opportunities and
assets’ cost effectiveness, as well as identify and manage
inherent business or transactional risks to improve
shareholder value.
 You want to ensure new acquisitions are within your control
and integrated into your operations in the shortest possible
time.
 You want to understand your exposure to risk in relation to
different markets, customers, partners and suppliers, and be
confident that you have appropriate risk treatment strategies
in place.
 You want to be sure you can track your progress on the
implementation of your strategy after it becomes operational
Strategy.

Business Process
Improvement
In today’s
challenging business
environment, can
your business
achieve operational
excellence required
to lead?
One of the key factors to success
in today’s fast paced and
challenging business
environment, is the adoption of
an efficiency and cost
improvement mindset. This
mindset is underpinned by the
embedding of a Business
Process Improvement culture in
the organization. We bring
capabilities in management and
business process improvement
to help companies optimize
their operating processes. We
help our clients transform their
entire value chain by facilitating
debottlenecking of key
processes.
We support our clients to
improve value, reduce wastes
and costs in all operational areas
such as Production and
Maintenance, Supply Chain
Management, Finance, and
Human Resources Management;
leaving sustainable benefits. We
focus on delivering enhanced
business performance and
driving bottom-line savings and
business growth through
applying proven cost
management methodologies to
facilitate agile responses to
changing conditions.
We can help if:
 Your organisation is seeking
a practical framework to
improve operating
processes in order to reduce
cost, capture lost revenue or
improve service levels
across the entire value
chain.
 Your key objective is to achieve
quantifiable improvements by
minimising inefficiencies and
improving decision-making
processes.
 You are looking to improve the
general effectiveness of your
physical supply chain.
 You are embracing a new
sustainable business model
that requires you to proactively
manage your brand and
corporate reputation across
your company’s value chain.
 The pressures to grow revenue
lead you to re-assess whether
you are getting the most from
your management systems and
processes.
 You have just undergone a
period of rapid change,
possibly post-merger, and are
looking to transform service
delivery through shared
service delivery, off-shoring or
service re-design.
 You recognise the need to
review and streamline existing
processes and procedures with
a view to customizing them
and making them risk based.

Finance
Is your finance
function rising to
the challenges of
your current
operational
environment?
Driving efficiency
The pressure to release money,
resources and capacity has
never been greater. Gains may
come from the elimination of
redundant activities,
consolidation of activities (for
example, through shared
services), standardisation and
automation of processes. These
steps have in some instances
resulted in cost savings in excess
of 50%.
Providing insight and
challenge
Insight takes different forms in
different organisations. It
involves delivery of an effective
performance management
framework, understanding the
key business drivers and
challenging and supporting
business decisions around these
drivers. Equipping finance to
deliver effective support in these
respects requires tools and
capabilities which are often new
to the function.
Project/ Corporate Finance
Finance is being expected by the
business to develop and deliver
financing and financial strategy
as well as investment appraisals
aimed at providing ‘early’
insights supported by forward
looking decisions.
Balancing these conflicting
demands therefore require
continually paying attention to
details and the other on how to
realise value.
We can help if:
 You are eager to develop a
vision for your finance
function or have it
revalidated
 You want to align your
finance operating model
strategy to company and
business strategy
 You are desirous of
unleashing the potential of
the finance function to
support the business and
wish to refocus finance
activities in your
organisation away from
transaction processing and
toward decision support
 You are keen to maintain
satisfactory level of controls
and desire to strike a
balance between over- or
under-controlled business
operations
 You wish to set up shared
service and outsourcing
arrangements and are keen
to ensure sustainable
benefits
 You want to explore how to
entrench change capabilities
into your finance
organisation.
 You wish to develop and
implement a finance target
process model to address
the full cycle of operations
 You recognise the need to
achieve suitable financing
stricture through evaluating
funding options and
determining optimal debt-
equity ratio
 You require assistance in
identifying potential
sources of finance.
Today’s CFO is being
challenged to build a
finance organization that
meets cross-functional
business requirements in
the midst of limited
budgets, increasing
regulatory compliance
requirements, changing
market expectations as
well as critical talent
management challenges
which are all combining
to place enormous
demands on finance’s
resources. The following
conflicting demands will
remain the challenge for
the finance function:
Maintaining compliance
and control
Being accountable to the
business and to the
financial community,
CFOs have put
compliance and control at
the top of the agenda. For
many, responses have
been tactical rather than
strategic. More deeply
embedded and
sustainable solutions are
now required.

Does your
technology
capability give you
a competitive
advantage?
Technology is an important enabler of business transformation. We
help our clients implement technologies to streamline decision
making, improve business processes and transform organisational
performance. We bring together knowledge, skills and experience
spanning IT strategy, architecture and design, security, enterprise
applications, project management, and operations management.
We can help if:
 You recognise the need to better align IT to the organisation’s
needs.
 You wish to have the right IT organisation to support business
requirements and increase value to the business.
 You need to be better equipped to perform IT due diligence
activities for mergers and acquisitions.
 Your efforts to comply with regulatory matters have uncovered
operational issues in IT and information security.
 You need to prioritize and measure IT projects.
 You wish to assess which IT services should be provided
internally and which should be outsourced to third party service
providers.
 You wish to manage IT risk effectively while enabling new
business growth initiatives.
Information
Technology
Business goals - How we align our Information Technology services with your business goals
Innovate and Grow Profitably • Information technology strategy and IT alignment
Prioritise and adopt new technologies to • Business systems integration
differentiate the business and help achieve • IT program and portfolio management
new business goals for profitability • Information and enterprise decision management
• Information technology infrastructure
• Shared services and out-sourcing
• IT due diligence for mergers and acquisitions
Promote Efficiency
•
Business applications: full system implementation, governance
process consultation, establishment of project management functions,
security and controls designs, financial and business analytics,
detailed data management
Engage in business transformation to
improve performance through the
integration of process and
technology • Business applications Oracle: implementation and upgrades
• IT Architecture
Enable Cost Effective Operations • Enterprise data management
Streamline without sacrificing long-term
success.
• Enterprise content management
• Information strategy
• Business intelligence and analytics

Governance, Risk
and Compliance
Are your business
risks appropriately
mitigated?
We support our clients in identifying, understanding, and
managing risk to enable an appropriate balance between risks
and opportunities. We also assist with the design and
implementation of governance, compliance and other internal
control programmes to ensure sustainable operations within the
boundaries of relevant legislation and regulations.
We can help if:
 You need advice on the performance and accountabilities of
your board and management.
 You need to improve stakeholder and regulatory
relationships and communication.
 You want to manage processes and mitigate inherent
business risk.
 You want to develop an effective response plan for severe
emergency situations that can potentially hurt your business.
 You want to protect your reputation and retain the trust and
confidence of your stakeholders.
 You want to free up valuable resources by de-layering risk
and compliance processes.
 You want to reduce the incidence of compliance failure.
 You lack clear and measurable key performance indicators
(KPIs).
 You need procedures to identify and address complaints,
breaches of legislation and internal processes.
 You need to achieve greater value for compliance spend.

Project Delivery
Management
Does your
organisation have a
framework for
achieving maximum
value from its
projects? Are your
projects predictable
and competitive?
The cardinal objective of any
organisation is to consistently
and sustainably deliver
excellent project performance
and be perceived by its
stakeholders (especially
providers of finance) as a
company that delivers on its
promises.
Efforts to ensure top quartile
project delivery have led
successful companies to
mandate that all their projects
follow a structured stage-gate
process where processes are
mapped into a general project
management framework.
Projects must also be both
predictable and competitive in
order to derive optimal value
during operations.
This requires organisations
commit the right amount of
resources and practices to the
planning phase of a project to
ensure maximum chances of
successful execution. Research
by the Independent Project
Analysis Inc. (IPA) regarding
project delivery management
shows that altering the
trajectory of a challenged project
is inherently more difficult
during execution hence setting
up for success simply means
that companies can no longer
afford to not to invest resources
in the early stages prior to
commencement of execution as
this is critical for achieving top
quartile delivery outcomes.
We can help if:
 You are eager to develop and
implement a structured
framework for project delivery
management
 You wish to increase your
organisational capacity for
planning and executing
projects
 You are keen on establishing
project governance structure
and its key functions required
to implement the gatekeeping
workflow process
 You are desirous of
establishing effective cost and
schedule processes
 You want to design a clear
governance structure with
clear roles and responsibilities
to ensure flawless delivery of
your projects
 You want to implement a
management of change process
to ensure robust change order
management process
 You are concerned about
getting your contracting
strategies right in order to
effectively manage third party
spend
 You are keen to maintain
effective risk management
processes through the project
delivery process.
 You wish to develop and
implement a project delivery
model to extract maximum
value and ensure optimal
capital project performance
 You are desirous of getting
your troubled projects back on
track

Project Delivery
Assurance
Is your
organisation’s
project delivery
model properly
supported by fit-for-
purpose project
assurance processes
that provide not
only the comfort
that the right
projects are being
pursued but also
that they are being
delivered rightly?
The fundamental purpose of a
structured approach (stage gate
process) to project delivery is to
refine the project and identify,
assess, and mitigate risks in a
structured manner. The
philosophy behind of having a
structured review of a project
prior to each stage-gate (each
stage representing a decision
gate) is to provide external audit
that gives an independent
perspective on the project.
Accordingly, the stage gate
process should set the project
for success as project progress
only when key decision drivers
to enhance or protect value are
met.
However, despite the merits of
the stage-gate process and
extensive success achieved by
companies that have
implemented this structured
process, many projects where
the stage gate process was
applied have still delivered
lower quartile project outcomes.
This has been linked to an
absence of an independent
project assurance process in
those organisations to provide
perspectives that are driven
purely by risk and value, most
especially at the front-end
(planning stages).
We can help if:
 You have weak or inexistent
Assurance Process to provide
external perspectives of the
project resulting in weak gates
that allow projects to proceed
with marginal business
justification or poor quality
stage-gate deliverables.
 You have poor Front End
Loading, allowing a number of
projects to make it through to
execution stage as it was not
clear that they are not
economical or that the risks
cannot be sufficiently
mitigated.
 You require assistance in the
form of structured process for
building internal capabilities
for assurance process and
providing independent
assurance process thereby
acting as sounding board to the
decision executive for ensuring
quality gates and handholding
process for decision members
of the project.
 You are desirous of having an
expert organisation to act as
implant for embedding the
project assurance process
within your organisation’s
project delivery engine,
develop tools, processes and
framework for identifying
different types of assurance
required for each project as
well as tools for calibration of
assurances, and provide
implementation support to
transition project assurance
process.
EE can help deliver
independent project
assurance process. Our
risk driven, integrated
assurance approach
ensures scalability to each
project. We will seek to
deliver an optimised
assurance programme for
your projects by
deploying our risk based
tools to tailor our
assurance support based
on calibration of project
risks and complexity.

Do you have the
appropriate
number and mix of
talent in your
organisation? Do
you have the
performance
management
capacity to drive
these talents
to deliver your
strategy?
Getting the best from people at every level when there is constant
change is the key to a sustainable competitive advantage. Solid
strategies, processes and technology alone do not deliver results. It
takes people to accept, adopt, drive, and sustain the change to
realize tangible impact. Success in business hinges on strategic
agility and the ability to execute.
We can help if:
 You want to restructure your organisation with the right
capabilities and leadership to execute the business strategy.
 You need to get the right people with the right skills in the
right roles at the right time.
 You want to ensure successful change by involving the people
impacted and enabling them to drive and sustain the business
change.
 You want the organisation’s culture to be a competitive
advantage.
 You have to establish the control and coordination required to
manage projects and programs successfully in order to achieve
the right business results.
 You need to engage and motivate a diverse workforce to focus
on the right things and strive for excellence.
 You are seeking effective strategies for people development
and growth.
 You need to align compensation/reward with contribution to
ensure equity and adequacy of performance management
systems.
Human Capital
Management
Business goals - How we can align our human capital management services with your
business goals
Leverage talent
Grow and deploy top talent
with an HR function that is a
strategic contributor to success
 HC Strategy and Operating Model Design
 HC Transformation
 Culture and Change management
 Climate Audit and Employee Engagement
 Job Evaluation and Compensation Design
 HR Policies and Processes Development and Review
 Organisational Design and Development
 Incentive Scheme Design
 Job and Competency Profiling
 Talent Management

Why EE
We bring a wealth of international experience and local market knowledge…
Deep market,
industry, and
technical
expertise
• We have sound understanding and
hands on experience of the fiscal
and regulatory framework
• One was a key architect for the
development of the West Africa
Gas Pipeline Masterplan
• Our staff have successfully
delivered multi-billion dollar
Energy projects in different
countries including extensive
experience in Nigeria
Our leadership team has over 100 years of select industry experience
Experienced
business
management
team
• Our Chairman is the immediate
past Managing partner of
PricewaterhouseCoopers West
Africa
• One of our partners was CEO of
Shell Nigeria Exploration and
and Production Company Limited and
later CEO of Nigeria Liquefied Natural
Gas (NLNG)
• And the other was CEO of
Heineken, Sierra Leone
Our partners have more than 50 years of top management level industry
experience
Highly skilled
and experienced
professionals
• Our consultants have extensive,
hands-on management and
consulting experience
• Our experiences span both local
and international markets
 We also have extensive
knowledge and experience of
select industry investment
appraisal and finance
 Our team is always ready to hit
the ground running
We have a team of experienced professionals
External
relationships and
professional
networks
• Leadership team has extensive relationship with the IOCs, NOCs, the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), the Federal Inland Revenue
Services (FIRS) as well as key stakeholders in the industries and the public
sector.
We have a strong external network
Approach
• Targeted but resourceful
methodology that considers key
stakeholders, industry leverage,
goals and commercial value drivers
• Strategic partnerships with clients to
ensure proffered solutions are
executed within the constraints of
time, budget and performance
We use a comprehensive approach to deliver desired results

Our Leadership Team
Ken Igbokwe is the Chairman
of Execution Edge Limited.
Ken joined Price Waterhouse in
London in 1978 and moved to
Price Waterhouse Nigeria in
1988. In 2004, he became the
CEO of PwC Nigeria and West
Africa. In that capacity he was
also a member of the PwC
Africa Executive Committee.
Ken holds a B.Sc.(Eng.) degree
in Mechanical Engineering
from Imperial College, London
University, and over 36 years’
experience in the provision of
assurance, taxation, business
advisory, and consulting
services.. He specialises in
strategy, enterprise
transformation, process
reengineering, taxation
advisory and business
reconstruction.
He is a Member, the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of
England & Wales, and Nigeria;
Member, City and Guilds
Institute London; Member,
Chartered Institute of Taxation
of Nigeria, and Member,
Business Recovery &
Insolvency Practitioners
Association of Nigeria.
Chima Ibeneche is a Partner
and Executive Director in
Execution Edge Limited.
Chima was a Director in
charge, Oil and Gas Advisory
Practice of PwC Nigeria 2012 –
2014..
Prior to joining Execution Edge,
he was the MD/CEO of Nigeria
LNG Ltd from 2008 to 2012.
During that period, he was also
the Exec. VP of Bonny Gas
Transport Limited. Before then
he was the Managing Director
of Shell Nigeria Exploration and
Production Company Ltd
(SNEPCo) between 2004 and
2007. And, before that he was
Chief Petroleum Engineer of
Shell Nigeria.
Between 2003 and 2004, Chima
led the organizational change in
Shell in Nigeria, code named
‘SoFu’, which led to the
reorganization of Shell
companies in Nigeria and the
establishment of Shell E&P
Africa offices in Lagos.
Chima holds a B.Sc.(Eng.)
degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Nigeria
and has won many awards in
the Oil & Gas Industry.
Dr. Okechukwu Mbonu is a
Partner and Executive Director in
Dr. Okechukwu studied
Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Manchester, UK,
where he obtained a BSc (First
Class Honors, 1977) and a PhD
(1982).
He started his career as an
engineer with Nigerian Breweries
Plc in 1982 and became the
Engineering Manager in 1992. In
1996, he was “seconded” to Shell
Petroleum Development
Company of Nigeria (SPDC) to
set up the Special Intensive
Technical Training Programme
(SITP) for fresh graduates. He
returned to NB Plc in January,
1999 and served as the Executive
Director Human Resource and
Customer Service. Thereafter, he
was appointed the Managing
Director/Chief Executive Officer
of Sierra Leone Brewery Limited
(SLBL), Sierra Leone. He joined
PricewaterhouseCoopers in
November 2009, bringing
practical Board and management
experience.

Our Leadership Team
Malije Okoye is a Director at
Malije joined Shell Petroleum
Development Company
(SPDC) in 1991 and has over
23 years experience with Shell
in many areas of the Oil/Gas
industry, in Nigeria and
overseas (UK, The
Netherlands and Singapore).
He served in various areas of
Shell’s business, including;
Project Engineering and
Management, Contracting &
Procurement, Development
Planning/Engineering, Asset
Management, Real Estate &
Infrastructure and
Engineering/Technical
Management.
He held various senior
management positions with
Shell Nigeria Exploration and
production Company
(SNEPCo) which included
Manager, Engineering & Asset
Support; Real Estate &
Infrastructure Manager for
Nigeria and Non Operated
Ventures Manager.
Malije holds a B.Eng. (Hons)
from the University of Benin,
is a COREN Registered
Engineer and an alumnus of
Wharton Business School,
Philadelphia, US and IMD,
Lausanne, Switzerland.
Terkimbi Ibunde is a Director at
Execution Edge Limited. He
joined PricewaterhouseCoopers
in 1997 and worked with both
the Nigeria and US firms
between 1997 and 2005.
He joined Shell Nigeria
Exploration and Production
Company (SNEPCo) at the end of
2005 and held several Finance
leadership roles in Shell Nigeria.
As Finance Manager, Deepwater
Projects, he contributed to the
delivery of projects at
significantly lower costs than
budgeted. One of such project
has now become a benchmark for
project management by the
National Oil Company (NOC) in
Nigeria. He also led the redesign
of SNEPCo's business finance
processes to improve process
efficiency and standardization.
His interests include assurance,
business advisory, petroleum
fiscal systems, commercial
contract management and EP
specific accounting and finance.
He holds a B.sc Accounting
degree from the University of
Calabar and an MBA from
Warwick Business School,
University of Warwick, UK. He is
Associate member of the institute
of Chartered Accountants of
Nigeria.
Emeka Maduekwe is a Director at
He joined Shell Petroleum
Development Company (SPDC) in
1992 and gained broad expertise
and knowledge in Oil and Gas
production Operations and
Maintenance from his over 22
years-experience both in Nigeria
and overseas (Malaysia and The
Netherlands).
Emeka has expertise in Oil and Gas
Facilities Operation and
Maintenance as well as Business
Process Improvement
Implementation and Change
Management. He held various
Senior Management positions in
SPDC and Shell Global Solutions
including Competence,
Operational Excellence and
Continuous Improvement
Manager and Member of Shell
Nigeria Production Leadership
Team, Lean Implementation
Manager and member of the Shell
Nigeria Development Leadership
Team, Non-Operated and Third
Party Service Manager,
Netherlands, and Offshore
Installation Manager, Malaysia.
Emeka possesses a BSc
Electrical/Electronic Engineering
from The University of Lagos and
a BTEC diploma in Offshore Oil
Installation Management. He is a
COREN registered Engineer and is
a member of the Nigerian Society
of Engineers.

Ken Igbokwe
Chairman
+234 (0) 802 290 5239
ken.igbokwe@executionedge.net
Chima Ibeneche
Partner
+234 (0) 803 406 2406
chima.ibeneche@executionedge.net
OJ Mbonu
Partner
+234 (0) 705 656 9274
oj.mbonu@executionedge.net
Malije Okoye
Director
+234 (0) 909 039 0890
malije.okoye@executionedge.net
Terkimbi Ibunde
Director
+234 (0) 809 849 2760
terkimbi.ibunde@executionedge.net
Emeka Maduekwe
Director
+234 (0) 816 357 0909
emeka.maduekwe@executionedge.net
Execution Edge Limited
Katia Gardens
Plot 1676 Oladele Olashore Street
Victoria island, Lagos
Tel: +234 1 277 6130-7
contact@executionedge.net
Contacts Details

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professional advice. You should not act upon the information contained in this publication without obtaining
specific professional advice.
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