Dr. Dada graduated from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Economics. He also holds a Masters’ Degree in Marketing Management from the University of Lagos. He is a member of Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) and a Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria (NIMN). He is an alumnus of the famous Kellogg School of Management, North Western University, Illinois, USA.
He started his career with UAC of Nigeria / Unilever in 1983 and held several positions as Product Group Manager, Export Business Manager (Asia, Australia and Eastern Europe), Divisional Ice Cream Director and Acting Divisional Managing Director, Fast Foods.
He was the Managing Director of Grand Cereals Limited, a subsidiary of UAC, from 1999 to 2010. He was thereafter elevated to the Executive Management of UAC as Group Executive Director, Corporate Services with responsibility for Human Resource, Marketing and Strategy – a position he held until his retirement after 35 years of meritorious service in July 2018.
He was on the Boards of a number of companies within the UAC Group in a non-executive capacity. These include UAC Foods Limited, UAC Restaurants Limited, UNICO Pension Funds Administrators Limited and Chairman of Warm Springs Waters Nigeria Limited, Ikogosi-Ekiti. He also served on the Board of Grand Cereals Limited as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of its Audit, Risk and Governance Committee until August 2020.
He led the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) during the period, 2004 to 2009 as Chairman of Bauchi, Benue, Gombe, Nassarawa and Plateau States Branch.
Dr. Dada holds a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration and was appointed by the Federal Government of Nigeria to serve on the Governing Council of Federal Polytechnic Offa from 2007 to 2010. He is currently the Chairman, Board of Directors of Livestock Feeds PLC (Subsidiary of UAC) and he sits on the Council of the Nigeria British Chambers of Commerce (NBCC) where he chairs the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sectoral group.
