Midstream and Downstream Personality of the Year: Alhaja Amina Maina, COO Mrs Holdings Limited
Ms Maina is a well established executive, and a dependable leader who brings to every board, vast knowledge of precise expertise and experience. An innovative thinker and problem solver, who consistently applies empathy and emotional intelligence to business analysis, complications and initiate fresh ideas to develop new systems, enhance existing and future positioning of the organisation. She is equally a keenly focused professional with a unique blend of industry transferrable skills, combined with consistent delivery of global best practice to drive organizational short and long-term strategic imperatives.
Her corporate knowledge spans over 20 years’ in Oil and Gas Sector covering the entire industry value chain particularly in the downstream sector – with special skills in trading, shipping, storage and retailing. Her wealth of experience is brought to bear in her restructuring and growing the national dominance of MRS group of companies in six African countries and Switzerland.
Ms Maina started her career in 1998 as a Youth Service Corps member with a subsidiary of NNPC – Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC). With over two decades of corporate experience, she has worked in various companies such as Marc Rich Investments Ltd, where she began her trading career, Aurora Energy Trading Ltd, Energy Solutions Integrated Services Ltd, Ovlas Trading S.A and currently, MRS Holdings Limited. She held various positions, overseeing marketing and sales, trading, business development and logistics.
She currently serves as a Board Member on the board of various reputable organizations. Such as MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, MRS Benin, Corlay Cameroon, First Mutual Microfinance bank, Maitama Amusement Park, Abuja and the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. At present, she is the Group Chief Operating Officer for MRS Holdings Limited.
Amina is an Alumni of the prestigious Harvard Business School, INSEAD (the Business School of the world) Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where she obtained a B.Sc. in Business Administration.
She has attended various industry trainings in Leadership, Strategy, Operations, Financial Management and Supply Chain at the London Business School, CITAC LLP London and the Oxford Princeton College.
Likewise, she is a fellow in the Institute of Management Consultants; a member of the Institute of Directors; a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE); Vice Chairman of the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN); the Vice President, Downstream & Midstream of the Women in Energy Network (WIEN); the Board Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group and a Fellow of the Energy Institute.
