Mr Edmund Onunzo
The Chairman of the Board of Directors, GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Nig Plc.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors, GlaxoSmithkline Consumer Nig Plc. He holds a Bachelors degree in Agric Economics, started his career in Levers Brothers Nigeria as a Sales Office Manager in 1977.
He rose to increasing levels of responsibilities until he became the General Sales Manager in 1987. He joined SmithKline Beecham in 1990 as Sales Controller. In 1995 he became the executive director, Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Healthcare and moved to Ghana in 1997 as the Managing Director of SmithKline Beecham Ltd with responsibility for the Pharma and Consumer businesses in the Anglophone West African countries. Following the merger of Smithkline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome in 2001, he was appointed Sales Director for GlaxoSmithkline Pharmaceutical Anglophone West Africa. Late in 2005, he took on the responsibility of managing the sales and marketing functions of GlaxoSmithkline Pharmaceutical until his retirement in December 2005.
He was first appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive director on 1st June, 2006 and the Chairman effective 12th June 2014.