Dr. Mohammed Jimoh.
DJC is led by Dr. Mohammed Jimoh, a process engineer by training and a senior industrial operator by career. Over more than two decades inside global chemical and pharmaceutical groups, he held positions that span the two decisions DJC now advises on: how to govern safety-critical work when it is increasingly externalized, and how to build and lead operations in African markets where the gap between strategy and execution is widest.
The advisory firm exists because both decisions are routinely underweighted at board level — treated as procurement questions or expansion questions, when they are in fact governance questions carrying legal duty of care and material commercial risk. DJC was founded to bring operator-side discipline to both.
Practice 01 · Process SafetyProcess & plant safety
Dr. Jimoh's most recent industrial role was as Cross-Functional Expert for Process & 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 & Technical Safety. The mandate included the governance framework for engaging external partners across Safety Lab, pressure equipment, and machine safety; coordination with the central procurement organization 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 (2021); he organized and presented at the PPS EMEA Conference (2023).
Earlier, as Health, Safety & Environmental Protection Manager at a major pharmaceutical site in Berlin (2002–2007), he held principal responsibility for Process & 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, where the engagement secured regulatory approval through extended negotiations 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. Additional certifications cover ISO/IEC 17025 quality management for accredited testing and calibration laboratories, internal audit, project change management, and portfolio management.
Practice 02 · AfricaAfrica market entry and growth
From 2014 to 2019, Dr. Jimoh served as Managing Director of Bayer Middle Africa Ltd. in Lagos, Nigeria — founding and building the operating company with full P&L and people responsibility (~€30M revenue, ~35 FTE), 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 was preceded by Head of Marketing & Sales for West Africa at Bayer S.A. Representative Office in Accra, Ghana (2008–2010) — building the regional sales team for PUR, CAS and PCS, 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 & Africa region (Leverkusen), he steered complex 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.
1990 – 2004Earlier career and academic foundations
Before his industrial career, Dr. Jimoh 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 his later industrial governance experience.
He holds Dr.-Ing. in Process Sciences (Technische Universität Berlin, 2004) — dissertation: Pressure Relief in Distillation Columns under Disturbed Operation — Modeling, Simulation, and Experiment — and 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). Continuing executive development includes Bayer Leadership Excellence at ESADE Business School and the Managing Directors Program at Bayer Academy.