Profile; Alhaji Abdulrazaq Isa Kutepa

Abdulrazaq Isa Kutepa has put in 28 years of his life into diverse professional and entrepreneurial activities both in the private and public sectors in Nigeria, United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, covering oil and gas, commercial and mortgage banking, financial services, telecommunication, manufacturing, water transport, research, and science and technology. He

has co-founded, managed and still serving on the board of several successful companies both locally and internationally. Abdulrazaq is the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Walter Smith Petroman Oil Limited, the Operator of Ibigwe marginal oil field in Oil Mining Lease (OML) 16 in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria.

Earlier in his professional life, Abdulrazaq had been a Banker where he built a solid banking career with Bank of Credit and Commerce, Chartered Bank Ltd and ultimately co-founder/Director, Safetrust Savings and Loans Limited now a subsidiary of Sterling bank.

He had also served on the Boards of; the National Inland Waterways Authority, Arewa Metal Containers (ARMECO), and Governing Council of the Cocoa Research Institute, amongst others.

He is a member of several local and international professional Organizations such as the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), National Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) (Corporate Member), Marginal Oil Field Operators Group (MFOG), The Petroleum Club, Institute of Directors (IOD) Nigerian American Chamber of Commerce etc.

Alhaji Abdulrazak Isa Kutepa is a graduate of Sociology from the renowned Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and has attended several Management development programs in both Banking and Oil & Gas locally and internationally. He is happily married to Kate Isa with a lovely daughter Amina.