Guinness Nigeria appoints new managing director and CEO
Guinness Nigeria has appointed Adebayo Alli (Bayo) as its next Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Company with effect from January 1, 2024.
This appointment by the Board follows the imminent move of John Musunga, the current MD/CEO, into another role within Diageo as the first Managing Director for Southern, West and Centra Africa (SWC).
Adebayo Alli joined Diageo in 2005 as a Packaging Operations Support Manager and has worked in several senior leadership roles across manufacturing, supply and commercial. He is described as a well-rounded executive with almost two decades of broad experience and leadership across supply chain, manufacturing, program management and sales.
In 2013 Bayo moved to Ethiopia on International Assignment to join Diageo’s Meta Abo Brewery Limited’s leadership team as the project lead for a business transformation project. He was subsequently promoted to Plant Manager in 2014 and appointed Supply Chain Director in 2015.
He returned to Nigeria in 2017 as Operations Director before transitioning to commercial: taking up several senior commercial sales roles in Guinness Nigeria PLC. Between 2019 and 2020, Bayo was appointed and served briefly as the as the Director for IPS, Reserve & Modern Trade. In 2020, Bayo was appointed as the Commercial Director Guinness Nigeria.
In his current role as the Commercial Director, he is credited with transforming the commercial team in Guinness Nigeria to one with a digital focused mindset and has successfully leveraged technological solutions to drive incremental growth, deliver productivity, embed operational safety, and sustain market share growth.
“Bayo is known for his deliberate focus on people and his many bold bets across supply and commercial has helped unlock business and personal growth for many of his colleagues thereby ensuring robust succession plans,” states the Guinness Nigeria as it announced the appointment. “His purpose is to add value to the world by inspiring others especially Africans to cause the transformations he wants to see and leave everything better than he met it.”
Alli holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Ibadan, and an MSc in Advanced Process Engineering from Loughborough University, United Kingdom.