With over 30 years in the energy, oil & gas industry, Dayo’s experience in strategic issues, corporate communication, and relationship management are unique. Caritas, the company that he currently leads is a specialist energy, oil & gas-focused consultancy.

 

Before setting up Caritas Communications, Dayo spent 15 years with ExxonMobil’s Nigerian affiliate, Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN), where he retired in 2006 as a Senior Corporate Executive in charge of Government & Business Relations and Head of the Abuja Office. Ever the trailblazer, Dayo was responsible for setting up the Government Relations department of Mobil Producing Nigeria in 1996, and in 2006, he set up the Corporate Relations Department of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria PLC where he was a Vice President. He has maintained links with political leaders in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, and consulted for several public companies and political leaders including a Speaker of the House of Representatives.

 

As Founder of Caritas, Dayo has consulted on a World Bank project and widely on oil & gas issues across the spectrum for indigenous companies, international oil companies, and governments. While at Mobil, he worked as Public Affairs Manager for ExxonMobil’s upstream affiliates in Nigeria. He was also the coordinator and lead responder for emergency and crisis communication for the African upstream operations of Exxon Mobil covering Angola, Cameroon, Chad Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria.

 

Between 2000 and 2002, Dayo was Public Affairs Advisor at the headquarters of Exxon Mobil Corporation in Houston, Texas, USA. He was the first African Public Relations professional in that position. Dayo possesses outstanding interpersonal and relationship management skills in addition to his extensive media networks developed during the first 10 years of his career.

 

In addition, Dayo has wide, varied, and enduring contacts across the various strata of the Nigerian government, an asset he used effectively when he pioneered setting up Nigeria’s first full-fledged Government relations office for Mobil Producing Nigeria in Abuja. Dayo is a graduate of the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University). He also holds a 1984 Master of Arts Degree in Communication Arts from the University of Ibadan as well as a Diploma in Public Relations from London. Dayo also attended the Senior Management Programme of the University of Michigan Business School, Detroit, United States, and the Lagos Business School, Pan African University, Lagos, Nigeria. Dayo was the Pioneer Secretary of the Commonwealth Journalists’ Association in Nigeria and President of the SMP 21 class at the Lagos Business School. He is Vice President of the Public Relations Consultants Association of Nigeria, (PRCAN), a member of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), and an Associate Member of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON). Dayo enjoys golf and traveling during his leisure time.