Sheri Adegbenro

Sheri Adegbenro (Bsc, Msc, CIA, CFE, CCSA, CRMA, CGT) is the Chief Audit and Compliance Officer, Eko Electricity Distribution Plc (EKEDP) and saddled with the responsibilities of conducting strategic audits, governance, and reinforcing a culture of risk awareness across the company. Sheri bagged a Bsc Accounting from Brooklyn College (City University of New York - CUNY) and Masters in Management from the University of Maryland - University College (UMUC). She is a seasoned professional with over two (2) decades of experience in delivering strategic and optimized solutions in audit engagements, business process optimization and reengineering, rollout and implementation of entity-level and operational policies and procedures to support overall company’s objectives and Enterprise Risk & Fraud Management across various sectors. Her experience transcends multi-sector markets particularly the Energy industry (Power, Oil and Gas), Banking and Finance/Mortgage, Fleet Management, Health Care, Information Technology, Real Estate and Hospitality industries respectively. While in the USA, her professional career commenced with Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees (H.E.R.E.),International Union, New York . As her career progressed, she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Washington Metro/Baltimore (USA) within the Risk Assurance/Internal Audit Group. She efficaciously assisted clients with executing enterprise risk assessment to identify high risk processes, business process optimization, and performed internal audits and compliance reviews across various markets. Subsequently, she joined the Energy sector due to her passion in understanding and adding value to the sector. Within the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI), she worked with Kano Electricity Distribution Plc (KEDCO) immediately after the privatization of the NESI, where she successfully championed the achievement of various initiatives: Finance Process reengineering, KEDCO portion of the first Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Nigerian Electricity Market Stabilization Fund/Facility (NEMSF) and various other transformation initiatives across the Company. Having joined Eko Electricity Distribution Company (EKEDC) in 2015, Sheri is in charge of Strategic, Risk-Based Internal Audits and Investigations. She has implemented a culture of control ownership while working with key internal stakeholders to build structures across the various functional areas of the Company taking into account people, process and technology. Sheri is actively responsible for assessing and improving governance processes that impact risk management, robust control environment, statutory compliance, organizations ethical climate and ensures optimization of standard structure and business practices within the company. In the wake of the Covid 19 Pandemic, her active skills successfully transformed and rescued the organization due to her ability to champion the entitywide Business Contingency Plans (BCP) spanning across all business functions and departments etc. Following her enormous contributions in the transformation of the company, she has won several recognitions, prizes and awards on Cost Optimization/Savings Initiatives, Innovation in Systems Improvement, Project transformation/re-engineering Process and MD/CEO Expertise Award “THE GURU “ etc. In addition, she has been contributed to different institutions/organizations locally and internationally in delivering articles/papers/lectures on various aspect ranging from Women in Engineering (North Macedonia), Internal Audit , Fraud & Forensic Auditing Excellence (Dubai), Value of Chief Audit & Compliance Officer in Distribution Sector (ESI Africa), Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR), Governance, Risk & Control (GRC), Business Ethics, Oracle Database, Sustainability Leadership & Strategy for regulators, Power Distribution Conferences etc. Sheri has a deep passion for community service and has been involved formal and informal with agencies both in Nigeria and the USA among which are Junior Achievement - US & Nigeria, So Others Might Eat (S.O.M.E.) - USA, Habitat for Humanity - USA, Cake Love NG (Cake4Kidz) – Nigeria etc.