Babajide Agunbiade Joins Mobihealth Board of Directors

Houston-based oil and gas veteran and one of the world’s leading offshore production experts, Dr. Babajide Agunbiade (FNSE), has joined the Mobihealth Board of Directors.

Dr. Agunbiade is a highly respected engineer, investor, businessman, and Chief Executive of Alpha Energy Resources, a diversified conglomerate with interests in offshore production and mining. He was one-time the executive director of Houston-based National Oilwell Varco, the largest oilfield equipment manufacturing company in the world. In that role, he completed over $2 billion worth of offshore production projects in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He is a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers, as well as being a fellow of the Society of Underwater Technologies.

As at 2022, he was one of 13 globally acknowledged Subject Matter Experts in Subsea production systems.

A United Nations SDG Ambassador, Agunbiade, is passionate about high social impact ventures and has followed Mobihealth’s impressive journey for the past couple of years with keen interest. On joining the Mobihealth Board of Directors, Agunbiade said, “I am thrilled to join MobiHealth, a company that is poised to combat and revolutionise  access to healthcare in Nigeria. He said on the global healthcare index, Nigeria’s healthcare ranks as one of the five worst in the world. 

The health industry is in such dire straits that thousands of doctors have moved abroad in search of better working conditions. With nearly 200 million people, MobiHealth is positioned to provide healthcare solutions for a huge customer base on a long and sustained basis.”

Dr. Funmi Adewara, the Founder and CEO of Mobihealth said, “It is such a great honour and privilege to have Dr. Agunbiade bring his decades of experience and influence to help Mobihealth succeed in our next growth phase. 

His vast experience, achievements and influence will be invaluable to the board and this excites me.”