Charles O.

Adebola
89 Penn Place
Rickmansworth
Hertfordshire, WD3 1QG
Tel / Fax: +44 (01923) 354968
Cellular: +44 07813593627
E-mail: charlesadebola@hotmail.com

Profile

A professional with an international background in the Oil & Gas and financial services
industries. Educated to degree level (BSc, MBA), articulate and an excellent communicator. The
ability to relate to people of all nationalities and persuasions while demonstrating superb
interpersonal skills is my trademark. Central to my skills base is a sharp commercial acumen.
Also possess a strong background in Sales and Telemarketing.

My primary skills consist of:

• Contract negotiation with third party interest groups such as boardroom executives,
governmental agencies, contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, lobbyists, and local
community representatives.
• Market manoeuvres fuelled by strong predatory instincts in which new markets were captured
and penetrated.
• Extensive knowledge with a ‘Hands-on’ delivery focused approach to human resources in
areas such as staffing, motivation, recruitment, employee relations and benefits.
• Cross-cultural skills in dealing with expatriate and local staff.
• Development and implementation of HR policies, strategies and systems.
• Quantitative and financial analysis, with an emphasis on macro-economic data collation,
research and making economic forecasts on the resulting information.

Positions held

Services Development Manager, Kindblue Dental Care, London, England: Contract

• Identify and secure new market areas for domiciliary provider of dental care.
• Lobbying directors, management executives of health service bodies for dental service
contracts.
• Selling company’s dental care ideals to power brokers in the care industry.
• Creating awareness of the nominal product with target groups using promotional campaigns.
Environmental Sales Consultant, Entico Co Limited, London, England: 04

• Secured successfully clients’ interest to attend Climate Change conferences ( The Tenth
Conference of Parties meeting) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December ‘04
• Secured successfully clients’ interest to attend the Desertification Conference – (United
Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) in Bonn, Germany ,May ‘05
• Sharp negotiation, selling, research and organisational skills were required.
• Secured positions for clients in publications used at conferences.
• Required to provide tangible lead sources independently.

Senior Sales Executive Advanced Monitored Security Limited, Hertfordshire, England: 01 -04

• Marketed security alarms and CCTV equipment to domestic and commercial clients.

Sales Consultant, Seymour Direct Ltd, Hertfordshire, England: 99 – 00 (contract)

• Counsels and advises clients on their energy and credit card processing requirements.
• Achieved over £150,000 savings for clients on energy, credit card discounting.

Personnel Officer, Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Project, Bonny Island, Nigeria: 98 - 99

• Responsible for the recruitment drive of staff.

• Implemented ‘Meet and greet’ protocols for newly arrived expatriates.
• Spearheaded campaign on cross-cultural relations between locals and expats.
• Implemented a company business ethics awareness campaign.
• Administered a comprehensive holiday benefits programme.
Market Development / Project Manager, Josef Ross & Co. Lagos, Nigeria
(Headquarters: Burtonsville, Maryland, USA): 96 – 98

Actively engaged in downstream and environmental projects:

The establishment of an LPG / petrol filling station – project engaged with installed production
capacity of 17000 tonnes of bottled LPG per year.

• Responsible for managing entire staff on site, monitoring productivity levels of various units
at regular intervals.
• Responsible for the logistics of raw materials, labour requirements and expertise.
• Responsible for liaison with governmental bodies, contractors, subcontractors, vetting agents
and suppliers.
• Conducted extensive research on target consumer markets.
• Liased with environmentalists and implemented a ‘green’ site policy.
• Responsible for opening and managing customer accounts.

Media Sales Executive, Sterling Publications Ltd, London, England: 94 - 95

• Secured positions for clients in Chinese Utilities publication within a competitive telesales
environment.

Statistical Analyst, Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Vienna, Austria: 91 – 93

• Assisted in the production of statistical data for OPEC publications.

• Responsible for the calculation of Oil revenue figures for individual member countries.
• Analysed macroeconomic status of each member country employing various economic
indicators as a basis for measurement.
• Prepared economic and business forecasts necessary for the execution of OPEC medium term
strategies.
• Formatted data appropriately for onward transfer into the OPEC World Energy Model.
• Managed and co-ordinated the flow of information obtained from supra-national and
international sources (The UN, World Bank, IMF, IEA, and OECD).
• Coordinated the activities of task force designated to maintain and update database regularly.
• Responsible for representing OPEC at numerous presentations, informal sessions,
departmental meetings, symposia and conferences.
Financial Project Coordinator, OPEC

Executed financial project for the Director of Research

• Evaluated economic success rate of E&P activities of Oil Majors utilizing the ‘finding
cost method’
• Conversant with financing schemes used by companies in upstream sector.
• Conducted comparative analysis of company on- and offshore expenditure patterns
using geographic segmentation (by continent) as basis.

Settlements Officer, The American Stock Exchange, New York, New York, USA: 87 – 89

• Represented L.F. Rothschild on the trading floor.

• Involved in documenting details associated with the order of daily buyer-seller transactions.

Stockbroker Assistant, Shearson Lehman Brothers, New York, New York, USA: 85 – 87

• Solicited and identified prospective clients in a dynamic environment.

• Evaluated the specific financial requirements of clients through personalised interviewing and
counseling.
• Utilised powerful negotiation tactics to turn over highly qualified accounts to stockbroker for
final closing. Assisted in the maintenance of client accounts.

Education

Erasmus University, Rotterdam School of Management, the Netherlands: 89 – 91

MBA, General Management

New York University, Stern School of Business, New York, New York, USA: 81 – 85
BSc Business Administration
Double Majored in international business and marketing

Miscellaneous Information

• Nationality – British
• Date of Birth - 1st January 1956
• Health - Excellent
• References - Available on request