Mallam Bashir Ahmad El-Rufai

Mallam Bashir Ahmad El-Rufai  joined the Board of Directors of IHS Holding Limited in June 2013. Mr. El-Rufai also serves on the boards of a number of our subsidiaries. Prior to joining IHS Nigeria, Mr. El-Rufai served as Training and Development Officer and later Assistant Production Manager at Kano State Oil & Allied Product Limited from 1977 to 1979, before joining Nigerian Cereals Processing Company Ltd as Group Marketing Manager from 1981 to 1983. He served as Chief Commercial Officer for the Northern District of Nigerian External Telecommunications Limited from 1983 to 1985 and held several positions at Nigerian Telecommunications Ltd.

From 1985 to 1996. Mr. El-Rufai was also co-founder and President of Intercellular Nigeria Limited. From 1997 to 2009 Mr. El-Rufai currently serves as Chairman of Intercellular Nigeria and has served as Vice Chairman and Corporate Advisor of Intercellular (Nigeria) Limited in 2009. He also served as an Independent Director of FSDH Merchant Bank Limited. Mr. El‑-Rufai has also chaired several boards, including Channel Distribution (an ICT company), Systemtech (an IT company), Alpha Aluminium and Northstar Chemicals, among others.