Dr. ABC (Bryant) Orjiako is the Chairman and co-founder of Seplat Energy PLC, SEPLAT, a leading Nigerian independent energy company listed on both the London and Nigerian stock exchanges with a strategic focus on Nigeria. Dr. Orjiako has steered the company, since its inception in 2009, to steadily emerge a global brand while attaining its remarkable growth aspirations. Under his watch, the company pioneered dual listing of its shares on the Nigerian and London stock exchanges in 2014. In recognition of the company’s achievements, SEPLAT won the Best Africa listing 2014 award by Africa Investors (Ai), “MidCap Company of The Year 2014” award by the Oil and Gas Council, and was named a “Global Growth Company 2014” by the World Economic Forum in 2014. Appointed into the London Stock Exchange’s LSEG Africa Advisory Group in 2016, Orjiako was one of the specially selected outstanding senior African business leaders and, the only Nigerian business leader chosen in the new group appointed to the new Africa Advisory Group. After obtaining an M.B.B.Ch. degree in 1985 from the College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Nigeria, he trained as a General Surgeon at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, and later sub-specialized in orthopedic and trauma surgery and became a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 1996. Dr. Orjiako established and managed various companies in the upstream, downstream, and service industries of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. He is on the board of companies in multiple sectors and has other business interests in construction, real estate development, pharmaceuticals, and shipping. In recognition of his service to humanity and entrepreneurial achievements, he has received several laurels within and outside his country.