Meet The Team

He is an experienced and dynamic finance professional with 19+ years of banking experience in diverse roles. He has excelled in providing financial services across various industries, managing business relationships of medium to large corporates as well as multinationals.
Prior to joining Shoreline Natural Resources Limited, he was the Head of Upstream Oil and Gas with Guaranty Trust Bank Plc where he oversaw key relationships with International, and Indigenous Oil Companies.

Mr. Nwofor received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Banking from the University of Port Harcourt and holds an Executive MBA from the prestigious Lagos Business School. He has attended several leadership and finance-specific courses from top-class institutions including Ross Business School, the University of Michigan, and the International Faculty of Finance (IFF).

Lara Coker is the General Counsel as well as the General Manager, External Communications of Shoreline Natural Resources Ltd. Prior to joining Shoreline, she was the Company Secretary and Legal Adviser of a publicly listed company for over 5 years.
Lara is a graduate of King’s College London where she holds a Master of Laws (LLM) in Commercial/Corporate Law. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Law and Politics from the University of Keele.
Lara has over three decades of Business Advisory, Tax, corporate and commercial as well as Litigation experience having worked in one of Nigeria’s leading commercial law firm and in a “Big four” professional services firm. She is an alumnus of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and the Women on Boards Program at IE Business School.
She was listed as one of Africa’s leading and most influential in-house counsel in the Corporate Counsel 100: Africa in 2015. She has also been named on the Legal 500 General Counsel Powerlist Africa.
She is a member of the Institute of Directors (IoD) Nigeria, the Nigerian Bar Association and is also an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria (ICSAN) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) as well as a Notary Public. She enjoys mentoring young women in career.

Funmi graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan, after which she obtained an MBA (majoring in Human Resources Management and Marketing Management) from the Cardiff Business School, Wales.

Over the course of her career, she has held senior management and executive management positions across various portfolios which include corporate affairs, business development, share registration, corporate banking and human resources management; across diverse industries, including construction, finance, banking and energy.

Funmi is passionate about people and all her roles have involved an interface with people either on the external clients’ side or with the companies’ internal clients, its people.
A proven team leader who successfully integrates strategic thinking with strong technical and analytical competencies, Funmi has been responsible for a broad range of initiatives aimed at optimizing business processes and the development, deployment, and support of new systems and processes.
She has participated in several leadership training. Noteworthy are the Women on Boards Training (Wimboard Programme) organised by Wimbiz and IE Business School, Madrid; and the Advanced Management Programme of the Harvard Business School.

Funmi is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and the Institute of Directors, Nigeria (IOD). She is also a founding member of GAIA, Africa.
She serves as an alternate director on the board of Grange School, Lagos and is a member of the school’s Governing Council.

Ojo Joseph is the General Manager Operations at Shoreline Natural Resources Limited. He is responsible for managing Well Operations & Engineering, Production Operations and Facilities Engineering/Capital Projects.
His position is focal for the interface with the Joint Venture partners to achieve the approved production targets, field development plans and to monitor performance of the agreed annual work programs and budget.

Since 15th January 2018, Joseph has overseen our Technical and Operations team. He has over 30 years in Operations management in the oil and gas industry. He has worked in various technical and operations management roles.
He has contributed immensely to the growth of our production profile.
Prior to joining SNRL, he worked as the Operations Manager for Shell for over 30 years where the focus of his role was effective management of Production Facilities, Export Terminals, and offshore facilities.
He was the offshore Production Manager at Shell Malaysia for 3 years where he successfully completed the turnaround maintenance of several production facilities to improve asset integrity and production stability.
Joseph is a Mechanical Engineer, Internationally Certified Technical Authority (TA) in Oil and Gas Operations and holds MBA from University of Benin. He is a member of several bodies including Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Captain Richard Hibbert is the General Manager, Shipping and Commercial of Shoreline Natural Resources Limited. Prior to joining Shoreline, Richard worked with Shell Plc for 40 years in various positions, including 25 years at sea to the rank of Captain. He has over 20 years of experience in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry, specifically with NLNG, SPDC, other shore-based appointments in Shell, and SNRL. His vast experience comprise of all aspects of Marine, LNG, Oil & Gas Shipping and Export activities including commercial & terminal operations, and the development of marine infrastructure.

He graduated from Plymouth School of Maritime Studies UK as a first-class Master Mariner.
Richard effectively manages conflicting interests in challenging environments with multiple stakeholders, including Government Ministries, Departments, and Agencies. He chaired the Operations & Terminals subcommittee of the Oil Producers Section of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce for over 7 years, interfacing with various Government ministries and Oil Producers, including indigenous producers, NNPC, and other IOCs.