Mr Mayank Kabra has been appointed as the Finance and Strategy Director of Guinness Nigeria PLC with effect from 1 November, 2024. He will be taking over from Mr Emmanuel Difom, who resigned from his role.
https://www.digital.zenithbank.com/ZEQ/ZEQ-jan-2026/index.html#p=1Mr Kabra is coming on board after the completion of the majority share transfer to N Seven Nigeria Limited from Diageo Nigeria.
Mayank Kabra is a versatile, result-oriented professional with over 20 years of experience in building high-performance teams, providing finance stewardship, fundraising and executing complex high-impact projects. He has a proven track record of leading large, cross-cultural and multi-functional teams as well as recruiting and mentoring people to progressively handle larger responsibilities.
Mayank has significant international experience working across diverse geographies like India, Malaysia and Nigeria. He started his career with PWC India in Risk Advisory and Internal Audit Services in 2003 and began independently managing large, critical clients from 2006 onwards across diverse industry segments such as metals and mining, pharmaceuticals, textiles and consumer products. He has worked in a variety of finance roles with Mondelez and Kellogg (now Kellanova) in India and Malaysia. In March 2016, Mayank was appointed the CFO – West Africa for Kellogg Tolaram Joint Venture. He was instrumental in funding the JV’s first cereals and snacks manufacturing business in addition to setting up the noodles manufacturing business in South Africa.
In his most recent role, Mayank was responsible for the greenfield SAP implementation across the consumer goods business of Tolaram in Africa where he setup a team of over 80 professionals on-shore and off-shore to operationalise the project across Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and Eswatini.
Mayank’s educational and professional background includes a degree from University of Pune (India) and membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN).
Following the above changes, the Board composition of Guinness Nigeria Plc. with effect from 1 November 2024 is as follows:
- Dr Omobola Johnson – Board Chair & Independent Non-Executive Director
- Mr. Harkishin Aswani – Vice Chair & Non-Executive Director 3. Mr Girish Sharma – Managing Director (Executive)
- Mr Mayank Kabra – Finance & Strategy Director (Executive)
- Mr Deepak Singhal – Non-Executive Director
- Mr John Musunga – Non-Executive Director
- Prof Fabian Ajogwu, OFR, SAN – Independent Non-Executive Director
- Ms. Ngozi Edozien – Independent Non-Executive Director
- Mrs. Vivien Shobo – Independent Non-Executive Director
