John Ehi. ADDEH (FNMGS, FNAPE, F-IPS) is President and CEO of Ewalen Investments & Services LLC, and a member of the Advisory Board of kANU Asset Management LLC.

His main current interests include Corporate Management & Governance Consulting, Investments Consulting. (including pre-IPO investments) Oil and Gas Business Consulting, He is an accomplished coach and public speaker.

Mr. Addeh retired from TotalEnergies Upstream Companies in Nigeria in January 2012 as Executive Director and Member of the Board of the multinational Oil and Gas Company.

His work assignments, all with TotalEnergies Upstream companies in Nigeria and France over thirty-two and half years included: Well-site Geologist and Regional Geologist (1979 – 1984), Regional Geologist and Head of Geological Databases (1984 – 1995), Manager, Geological Computer Applications (Pau, France, 1995-1997), Manager, Onshore Assets and Exploration Information Systems (1997-2001) and Manager, then General Manager, Public Affairs (2001 – 2007), Executive Director HR & Corporate Affairs (2007-2012).

Mr. Addeh was also Chairman, Governing Board of the Institute of Petroleum Studies, of the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria and Chairman of the Governing Board, TotalEnergies Upstream Companies in Nigeria Pension Fund from 2010-2012 during which period both institutions saw phenomenal growth in value addition.

He is one of the founding members of the extant Empower the Teachers (ETT) Project between TotalEnergies S.A. and the MIT for improving the curriculum and teaching methods of Nigerian University lecturers in Computer Science and Engineering.

Mr. Addeh graduated from the University of Benin-City, Nigeria, with B.Sc. Honours in Geology. He has attended numerous professional and management courses in Nigeria and Europe. He is an Executive Education alumnus of London Business School, INSEAD in France and IMD in Switzerland. He has excellent mastery of written and spoken English and French languages.

He is a Fellow of three prestigious professional institutions: Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE), and the Institute of Petroleum Studies (IPS), Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

He is a keen golfer, philanthropist, a promoter of the Arts, reads/writes music and plays the alto saxophone and the clarinet.

He is married, with two children.