Akinola Ayoola recently became the Chief Human Resource Officer at Oando Plc and is currently the Managing Partner, Jasper Beryl Consulting. He is an accomplished HR practitioner with over 28 years of specialist and generalist experience gained within the public and private sectors while working with the Federal Civil Service of Nigeria as an Administrative Officer, Unilever Plc, Financial Merchant Bank Ltd, Services Techniques Schlumberger, Transocean Inc, and Oando Plc.

Akinola was Deputy Compensation and Benefits Manager for Services Techniques Schlumberger (Schlumberger Wireline & Testing) from November 1996 to December 1998, based in Montrouge, France. This was a stint that exposed him to strategic compensation and Organisational development work. As Human Resources Manager for Transocean Inc (Global – Premier Deep Offshore Drilling Contractor) in Gulf of Guinea Division from 2001 to 2007, Akinola was awarded the First Excellence Award in 2004, the highest of such award in the organisation for his HR leadership and the major turnaround achieved in Industrial and Employee relations in the Nigerian subsidiary. He is a skillful negotiator with a track record of interaction with strong unions in the Oil Industry. He is also an excellent communicator and has recently been involved in facilitating a variety of HR and Soft Skills training programmes in GTBank, Wema Bank, First Bank, Glo World, Lagos Internal Revenue Service, Nigeria Railway Corporation, Seadrill Limited, TECON Nigeria Limited and Brandlife Limited, among others. He has attended Leadership and Strategic Human Resources programs at the Harvard Business School and University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business respectively; Hay Salary & Reward Management – London; Recruiting Skills at Management Centre Europe, Montrouge – France; Conference Board – Compensation & Benefits – Brussels; Compensation & Benefits programme, Sophia Antipolis, France; SAP R/3 Certification – SAP Academy, Bedfont, London; Strategic Human Resources Management and Finance for Non Finance Managers at Lagos Business School.  Akinola is also a certified SAP R/3 Human Resources Professional.