Inspiring Mileages of Taofik Adegbite

That entrepreneurship is a viable tool to fast-track the development of Africa and consolidates on the gains of a new age is a truism boldly embodied by Taofik Adegbite, the Chief Executive Officer of Marine Platforms Limited.

A Computer Science graduate of the University of Ibadan, he later attended the London School of Economics for a certificate course in strategy and Organisation Management as well as Harvard Business School OPM 44 (in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States of America).

Adegbite rose to global acclaim when his Marine Platforms delivered and became the proud owner of the African vision and African inspiration- the two subsea function-specific and Remotely Operated Vessels (ROV) costing $100 million and the first of its kind to be owned by a Nigerian company which also culminated in the first shipbuilding contract between a Nigerian company and a Norwegian Shipyard.

He started his career with the World Bank Agricultural Project Monitoring & Evaluation Unit and also worked on contract with Britain’s National Health Service (Hammersmith Hospital) as a CISCO- certified engineer.