{"id":15913,"date":"2017-03-16T09:55:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T08:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&p=15913"},"modified":"2017-04-26T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T08:29:26","slug":"mbonu-dr-engr-okechukwu-john","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/mbonu-dr-engr-okechukwu-john\/","title":{"rendered":"MBONU, Dr. Engr. Okechukwu John"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Date of Birth: State of Origin: Contact Address: Monday (Afo) 15″‘ October1951 Anambra MD\/CEO Office, Sierra-Leone Brewery Ltd Freetown Sierra-Leone Dr. Okechukwu John Mbonu, a consummating Engineer a human resource expert,a manwithcalmdispositionan Engineer withgoodtrack record ol” both academic, andworking Orienled achievement, whohasthe passion ofcoming first inevery field ofhis endeavour. Thismultitalented. Corporate player, distinguished himselfexceedinginall theassignments giventohim from Nigerian Breweries PLC.toShellPetroleum Development Company. Thestory is the same at his present place of work. This Professional Engineerhis name is Synonymous to achievement. Education \u2022 It was a smooth sail in his Primary Education \u2022 MayflowerSecondary School IkenneOgun State, where he creditedall the subjects registered in WASC and both GCE in 1971 \u2022 Federal Government College Warri Delta State, for his Higher School Certificate (HSC) 1973. he made the best result ofthat set. The Prestigious University ofManchester with Shell-BP Scholarship, where he graduated in 1977 with First Class Honours in Mechanical Engineering \u2022 Obtained a Certificate in Industrial Management (CIM) from Manchester Polytechnic 1979 \u2022 Obtained his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering 1989 \u2022 A strategic Management Programme at 1MD Laussane. Switzerland \u2022 He has attended Executive Development Programmes lo prepare himself I’or any call to duty, in such places as Stanford. Wharton. INSEAD and Lagos Business School \u2022 Between January-October 1990 at Heineken Technish Beheer Zoterwoude Netherlands I’ora training attachment at the International Support Services Division Work Experience \u2022 Joined Nigerian Breweries PLC, and worked as Engineer In-TrainingfromJanuary 1982-May 1983 \u2022 Progressivelyrising through the ranks, on coming back from Netherlands, became the FirstNigerian Executive Engineering Managerof NB PLC. a position he held from November 1990-September 1996 \u2022 Was Seconded to Shell Petroleum Development Company SPDC 1996-1999.where he made an achievement ol* what is called today SITP (Special Intensive Training Programme) in SPDC. that was Commissioned in bolh Warri and Port-Harcourt. On his return to N.B Pic he was made the Head of Personnel Department, a total departure, from his regular Engineering profession and that marked his first attempt in General Management \u2022 In 1999, through dint ofhardwork. honesty, dedication to duty and work achievement, he was elevated to the board ofNB PLC. lo become the Human Resources Director \u2022 In2001. he was moved to the Customer Services Department as the Director,this was due largely to his achievements in the Human Resources Department Currently the Managing Director\/Chief Executive Officer, of Sierra-Leone Brewery Ltd. Freetown a (Subsidiary ofHeineken International) .Awards and Honours \u2022 The best graduating Student ofFederal Government College Warri IISC A’Level Exam 1973 \u2022 Award ofScholarship by Shell BP. University of Manchester \u2022 First Class Degree Honours Mechanical Engineering with four academic Prizes Award Won the Trevithic Scholarship ofthe Institute 1975 \u2022 Clinchedboth A.H. Gibson Prizeand Institute of Mechanical EngineeringPrize \u2022 In 1977 was awarded the Fairbairn Engineering Design Prize \u2022 Awardeda Noel Philips Bedson Scholarship to pursue his Ph.D in Engineering in University ofManchester Dr.John Okechukwu Mbonu. the unassuming, down to earth and always cheerful, is a good testimony ol*child born to achieve, is a well travelled man an IgboAmbassador is adjudged as an Igbo Icon and a role model to upcoming youths, is married with four daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[2399,178],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-15913","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-engineer","category-professional"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/15913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15913"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=15913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}