UNIL has announced the appointment of Mr. David M. Mureithi and Mr. Akofa Lolonyo Ata as the Managing Director and Marketing Director respectively to the Board of UNIL with effect from October 22, 2010.
Mr. David M. Mureithi
Mr. David Mureithi, 47 years, is an Electrical Engineer by training with twenty four (24) years experience in Unilever. He is a Kenyan by nationality and joined the company as a management trainee in the Engineering department and has risen to hold various senior management roles in the Supply Chain function as well as General Management. He has worked in Ivory Coast and Kenya among other African countries. He has MBA in Marketing from the Leicester University in the UK. Until his appointment, Mr. Mureithi was the Managing Director of Unilever East and Southern Africa, where he was responsible for overseeing Unilever operations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Mr. Akofa Lolonyo Ata
Mr. Akofa Lolonyo Ata joined Unilever Ghana as a mid-career entrant in July 2004 as the Customer Service Manager of the Popular Foods team. Prior to that, Mr. Ata worked at Accra Brewery Limited as the Market Development Manager and also at the British Council as the Information Service Manager. He has a Master of Arts Degree in Marketing from the University of Central England, Birmingham.
At Unilever Ghana, Mr. Ata moved from the Popular Foods team to the Customer Development team where he worked as the Category Manager for Foods, and then as the Trade Marketing Manager, Foods. He was subsequently seconded on International Assignment to the Win with Customer Project team as an Implementation Manager. His International Assignments took him to Unilever companies across Africa, Asia, Middle East and Europe.
Issued in Accra, this 28th
day of October, 2010