Our Board of Directors

The Board of Agricon (West Africa) is chaired by Mr. Shehu Yakubu-Concern. He is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Springboard Trust & Investment Ltd. A 1987 graduate of Administration from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria with over thirty years of experience, most of which were at Senior Management Levels in both private and public sectors of the economy.

He is an authorized dealing Clerk of The Nigerian Stock Exchange and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers. He has over Twenty-five (25) years of practical professional experience in Portfolio Management, Primary Market Operations, Financial Consulting and Stock Dealing. He worked in various capacities with Arewa Hotels Development Limited where he served as an Investment Analyst before joining the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs as an Admin/Special Assistant to the Director of Administration and Finance.

In 1992, he was invited to the Corporate Affairs Department of Rims Merchant Bank Limited and later transferred to the investment arm of the Bank (Rims Securities Limited). He left Rims Group in1995 to set up Reward Investment and Services Limited with the former President of The Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers from where he resigned in 2000 as Head of Operations to steer the Management team of Springboard Trust and Investment Limited. He has actively participated in a numbers of issues in Primary and Secondary Market.