Capitals Hotels Elects Da-Souza as Director

By Modupe Gbadeyanka

Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer (MD/CEO) of Trustfund Pensions Limited, Mrs Helen Nneamaka Da-Souza, has been elected into the board of Capital Hotels Plc as a director.

The election of Mrs Da-Souza took effect from Thursday, October 26, 2017.

A statement signed by the scribe of Capital Hotels, Alex Ugwuanyi, stated that Mrs Da-Souza was elected at the meeting of the board of the firm, which took place Thursday, October 26, 2017.

Mrs Da-Souza joined Trustfund Pensions Limited as Director, Finance and Administration in 2010 and rose to the position of the MD/CEO in 2013, after holding the position in acting capacity between 2011 and 2013.

Before joining Trustfund, she was an Associate Director at Akintola Williams Deloitte, where she as a Trainee Accountant in 1985, and rose through the ranks to the position of Associate Director in 2009, a position she held before joining Trustfund Pensions Limited in 2010.

She attended the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where she bagged a B.Sc in Accountancy in 1984 and is an alumnus of Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Harvard Business School, Havard University, USA; Columbia Business School, Columbia University, USA; and INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau, France.

She is also an Associate member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) November 1988; and Chartered Institute of Taxation (CITN) November 2000.

Mrs Da-Souza has attended and delivered papers at several conferences both at home and abroad on Taxation and Accounting.