Enyinna Nkem-Abonta

21st November 2014

  

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Full Name: Enyinna Nkem-Abonta

Position: COO of Bicacon

Main Activity of the Company: Engineering consulting, construction, maintenance and infrastructure asset management

Place of Birth: Akwete, Nigeria

Education: BSc (Hons) (mathematics); MBA (finance and banking); DEA (diplome d’Etudes approfondies) (international finance and economics); PhD (economics), University of Paris-Dauphine, Paris; junior degree in French literature and civilisation, University of Grenoble III, France; certificate in public-sector management and budgeting, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, US

First Job with Present Group: COO

Value of Assets under Your Control: R93-million

Number of People under Your Leadership: 112

Management Style: Visionary leadership

Personal Best Achievement: Developing a belief in self-government and in the primacy of the individual

Professional Best Achievement: Successfully motivating for change in policy direction and strategy in government and politics

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Life: Bertrand Russell (the late British philosopher and mathematician)

Person Who Has Had the Biggest Influence on Your Career: Cato the Younger (Cato Minor)

Person You Would Most Like to Meet: Nelson Mandela and Bertrand Russell (deceased)

Businessperson Who Has Impressed You Most: Bill Gates

Philosophy of Life: Stoicism and adherence to the Golden Rule laid down by Jesus Christ

Biggest Ever Opportunity: Heading up the Department of Economic Development, Environmental Affairs and Tourism of the Eastern Cape government

Biggest Ever Disappointment: The defeat of Biafra in the Nigerian civil war

Hope for the Future: That black people claim equality through knowledge-based entrepreneurship and the creation and development of world-class industrial firms

Favourite Reading: Philosophy (Bertrand Russell), political and libertarian philosophy, Puritan writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England and scholarly works against extra-Biblical Christian orthodoxy

Favourite TV Programme: Africa’s largest Christian television network, Emmanuel TV

Favourite Food/Drink: Fish and avocado/whisky

Favourite Music: Classical music and Wesleyan and Puritan hymns of the eighteenth century

Favourite Sport: Martial arts

Favourite Website: Google

Hobbies: Writing and reading works on political economy, collecting antiques and metaphysical contemplation

Car: Daimler-Jaguar XJ8, long-wheel-base, diplomatic edition

Pets: Pure-bred German Shepherds

Miscellaneous Dislikes: Popular modern culture, hypocrisy and control of other people’s lives

Favourite Other South African Company: South African Breweries

Favourite Foreign Company: Google

Married: Divorced

Children: Amara, 18; Emeka, 10

Edited by Martin Zhuwakinyu
Creamer Media Senior Deputy Editor

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