Paul Gbededo

Paul Miyonmide Gbededo is a retired Nigerian corporate executive in the polymer, consumer staple and agro-allied products industries. He was the immediate past Group Managing Director and chief executive officer of Flour Mills of Nigeria PLC. He is the incumbent Chairman of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria’s Economic Policy Committee.
Early Life and Education
Gbededo was born in Ajara-Vetho community in Badagry, Lagos state to parents of Ogu ethnic background. He began his primary education in his local community, after which he proceeded to Badagry Grammar School for his secondary schooling. He earned his Higher National Diploma in Chemistry at the Department of Science and Mathematics of the Yaba College of Technology in 1977. He proceeded to Plateau State in Central Nigeria for his mandatory national youth service.
He furthered his education at The Polytechnic of North London (now London Metropolitan University), in the United Kingdom on a Lagos State Government bursary. While there, he obtained the Graduateship of Plastic and Rubber Institute (now collapsed into the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining), and the Associateship of the National College of Rubber Technology in 1980.
Shortly afterwards, Gbededo was awarded a scholarship by the Federal Government of Nigeria to study for a Master of Science degree in Plastics and Polymer Engineering Technology at the Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Later, Gbededo attended the Advanced Management Programme of the Lagos Business School in 1994, and an executive training in finance at Harvard University, in the United States. In 2005, he attended a programme in Pasta Machinery Use, Maintenance and Operation at FAVA in Cento, Italy. He served in that role for 4 years before being appointed to pioneer the conglomerate's rice business in 2009. When the Flour Mills’ growing number of subsidiaries were restructured into the FMN Group under three categories- Food, Agro Allied and Support Services, Gbededo was appointed as the pioneering managing director and Head of the Agro-Allied arm of the group in 2012.
Gbededo was appointed as member of the board of directors and designate Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer on March 13, 2013. He fully assumed the position on April 1, 2013, and remained in that role for 7 years until his retirement on 31 December 2020 bringing a 38-year run with the FMN to a close on a very high note. Upon retirement, Gbededo assumed office as the Board Vice Chairman, sitting beside Mr. John Coumantaros, the board chairman.

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