Dr. Mohammed Jimoh.

DJC is led by Dr. Mohammed Jimoh. Over more than two decades inside global chemical and pharmaceutical groups he held positions spanning both of the firm’s practices: how to govern safety-critical work when it is increasingly externalized, and how to build and lead operations in African markets.

The firm exists because both decisions are routinely underweighted at board level — treated as procurement questions or expansion questions when they are governance questions carrying legal duty of care and material commercial risk.

His most recent industrial role was cross-functional expert for process and plant safety and externalization at a global chemical and pharmaceutical group (2020–2025), where he developed and led the global rollout of a multi-year strategy to externalize PPS services across modeling and technical safety. The mandate included the governance framework for engaging external partners across safety laboratory, pressure equipment and machine safety; coordination with central procurement and regional teams; and the internal quality assurance regime against GLP and ISO/IEC 17025. He established the group’s PPS academy and led TOPPS practitioner and PHA training programs. The Externals@PPS program received the group’s Top Performance Award in 2021, and he organized and presented at the PPS EMEA Conference in 2023.

Earlier, as health, safety and environmental protection manager at a major pharmaceutical site in Berlin (2002–2007), he held principal responsibility for process and plant safety governance under BImSchG: PHA and HAZOP programs, explosion protection and pressure-relief studies, statutory safety reports, and the regulatory interface on permitting and new requirements — including the conversion concept for the VOC Verordnung, which secured regulatory approval through extended negotiation with the authority.

He is certified Störfallbeauftragter (Major Incident Officer) under § 7 No. 2 and 9 of the 5. BImSchV, the German statutory qualification for individuals carrying responsibility under the Störfallverordnung, and CE-Beauftragter (CE conformity officer) for machine safety and CE marking. Further certifications cover ISO/IEC 17025 quality management for accredited testing and calibration laboratories, internal audit, project change management and portfolio management.

From 2014 to 2019 he served as Managing Director of Bayer Middle Africa Limited in Lagos, founding and building the operating company with full P&L and people responsibility, heading marketing and sales for pharma and consumer health, and acting as innovation ambassador for West and Central Africa. The mandate covered the full operator agenda: local supply-chain build, market analysis, corporate governance and compliance, and the agency business for Covestro across West and Central Africa.

The Lagos role followed head of marketing and sales for West Africa at Bayer’s representative office in Accra (2008–2010), building the regional sales team with on-the-ground responsibility for market analysis and reporting. From 2019 to 2020, as regional coordination country projects manager for the Greater Middle East and Africa region in Leverkusen, he steered cross-border country projects including the Nigeria buy/sell program, functional excellence across West and Central Africa, and operational compliance in Nigeria.

He is a co-founder of the German Business Club Nigeria, a forum for German and Nigerian commercial interests.

Before his industrial career he was scientific staff at the Institute for Process and Plant Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin (1998–2002), conducting modeling, simulation and safety analysis of distillation processes under disturbed operation, and designing and operating pilot-plant installations. His doctoral work, completed in 2004, formed the technical foundation for much of the later governance work.

He holds a Dr.-Ing. in process sciences (TU Berlin, 2004) — dissertation: Pressure relief in distillation columns under disturbed operation: modeling, simulation and experiment — and a Dipl.-Ing. in energy and process engineering from the same institution (1998). His first degree is a B.Sc. in chemical engineering from Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria (1990).

The decisions that matter most to industrial leaders — what to externalize, where to grow — are not procurement decisions or expansion decisions. They are governance decisions. They look easy on paper and become difficult only after they are made. The work of an advisor is to make that difficulty visible before the commitment, not after.

Dr. Mohammed Jimoh