At Heirs Holdings Group Directors' Annual Summit: Group Chairman, Tony Elumelu emphasises company’s strong corporate governance vision.

He was speaking during Heirs Holdings Group Directors’ Annual Summit. It held at Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, Nigeria, from June 13 to 16, 2024. The summit was attended by over 100 board members groupwide from across all Heirs Holdings investee companies. 

It drew on the experience of board members of investee companies from sectors where Heirs Holdings invests; healthcare, power, energy, technology, financial services, hospitality, and real estate. 

Also present were trustees of the Group’s philanthropy, the Tony Elumelu Foundation, which catalyses young entrepreneurs across Africa.  

The summit provided the opportunity to reinforce the Group’s strong governance practices and identify opportunities for innovation and impact, as well as celebrate business achievements.

In his remarks at HH Group Summit, Group Chairman, Tony Elumelu, emphasised the company’s mandate to 'build to last' and to “build for impact”.  “Over the past decade, we have inculcated in our business the criticality of strong corporate governance practices.  We only invest for the long term, strategically and patiently. These twin commitments are fundamental to our success; we are indeed building to last, redefining success in every sector we operate in, and demonstrating our purpose to improve lives and transform Africa,” Elumelu said. 

The Heirs Holdings Group Summit culminated in a closing ceremony and dinner, hosting influential figures across Nigeria’s public and private sectors, including the Vice President of Nigeria, H.E Senator Kashim Shettima, Federal Ministers, Ambassadors, policymakers and leaders of civil society organisations. 

Nigerian Vice President hails HH Group Chairman 

Speaking at the closing ceremony, Vice President of Nigeria, H.E Kashim Shettima, remarked that the name of HH Group Chairman, Tony Elumelu, will stand out when the history of Nigeria and indeed Africa's banking history and revolution will be written, as one who has carved a niche for itself and engraved its name on the walls of banking and Africa's entrepreneurship.

“Tony Elumelu has become an enigma, a banking colossus, a power industrialist, and a force that cannot be ignored. He is one of our own who believed in Nigeria and threw his heart into it. He is a Nigerian economist, entrepreneur and indeed a philanthropist, who has given life meaning to millions of Nigerians and Africans,” Shettima said. 

Strides of Heirs Holdings

The success and impact of Heirs Holdings, it should be said, reflects the philosophy of Africapitalism, the belief that the African private sector can change the course of African development, but that it must be committed to doing good and doing well.

To date, Heirs Holdings investee companies employ over 40,000 people across 20 African countries, the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, France, and the United States of America. 

The Heirs Holdings portfolio includes investments in Heirs Energies Limited, Africa’s leading indigenous-owned integrated energy company, that produces over 40k bpd, which is transforming resource-based value chains, making African resources work for Africa; Heirs Insurance Group, championing financial inclusion and leading the digital transformation of the insurance ecosystem in Nigeria, with a mission to democratise access to insurance.

It also includes United Capital Plc, a leader in Investment Banking, Asset Management, Trusteeship, Securities Trading, Wealth Management, and Consumer Finance; Nigeria’s largest quoted conglomerate, Transcorp Group Plc, whose subsidiaries include Transcorp Power, one of the leading producers of electricity in West Africa and Transcorp Hotels Plc, Nigeria’s foremost hospitality brand; our healthcare brands, Avon HMO and Avon Medical, which are providing Nigerians with access to quality healthcare; Afriland Properties, a real estate investor and developer; technology brands, Redtech and Heirs Technologies, championing digital transformation; and the United Bank for Africa Plc (UBA), Africa’s Global Bank, which serves more than 45 million customers globally, across four continents.

The HH Group also boasts three NSE listed stocks each worth over N1trillion (SWOOTs) within its portfolio and manages an investment portfolio size worth N10.6trillion/USD7.1billion.

Heirs Holdings’ philanthropy, the Tony Elumelu Foundation, has impacted 1.5 million young Africans, and disbursed US$100 million in seed capital to 20,000 young African entrepreneurs across all 54 African countries, whose businesses have created over 400,000 jobs.

About Heirs Holdings

Heirs Holdings is a leading pan-African investment company. Its investment portfolio spans the power, energy, financial services, hospitality, real estate, healthcare and technology sectors, operating in twenty-four countries worldwide.

Heirs Holdings is inspired by Africapitalism, the belief that the private sector is the key enabler of economic and social wealth creation in Africa.  

Driven by this philosophy, Heirs Holdings invests for the long-term, bringing strategic capital, sector expertise, a track record of business success and operational excellence, to its portfolio companies.

The story was first published in The Guardian Post issue No: 3145 of Friday June 21, 2024