Eghosa Oriaikhi MabhenaFounder CEO

Eghosa Oriaikhi Mabhena has over two decades of experience in the Energy Industry. She is currently founder and CEO of Licena Group based out of Dubai focused on trading Agricultural and Oil physical commodities globally. The team have successfully closed a $30M facility raise and are onboarding further investment partners for circa $50M while driving their commercial growth.

Eghosa was group CEO to Malvyn Group where she designed the corporate structure under Foundations and a Multi Family Office into a hedge fund. Eghosa was also leading as Senior Executive Officer of the General Partner Office overseeing a set of Investment Funds, $15BN turnover, $3BN under management, focused on Commodities Trading – Oil and Non-Oil, Petrochemicals, Shipping, Energy Production, Infrastructure, Renewables and Technology. Eghosa was based out of Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) leading under a Multi-Family Office Structure. Eghosa was previously Company Director of Puma Energy working closely with the Shareholders and Board across nominated committees. Eghosa was leading as the CEO for Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific, Global Aviation and Global Lubricants businesses for the company. Eghosa’s $7Bn business remit spanned across 44 countries, leading close to 3000 Puma Energy employees. She joined Puma Energy in July 2019 as the CEO of Africa and a member of the Global Executive Committee before being promoted in 2020 to oversee the expanded portfolio across multiple continents and business segments.

Before joining Puma Energy, Eghosa was an Executive Director at Baker Hughes, a GE Company where she led business units across Europe, Africa, Russia Caspian, Middle East and Asia Pacific leading at peak $1Bn+ P&L, 54 countries and over 3000 employees. She also spent close to 10 years at Schlumberger.

As a successful C-Suite business leader Eghosa is renowned for delivering commercially on operations and strategy, leading businesses with innovation into superior performance and sustainable growth. Eghosa is referred to as a human leader, and is recognised for building and developing high performing teams and establishing positive company culture.