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Desmond Agboifo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer with Desyton Energy Limited, an integrated energy development firm providing upstream petroleum development and energy infrastructure programs inclusive of business consulting & advisory for the energy& Infrastructure, capital project development industry in West Africa. Desmond has 10+ years solid experience advising corporations, public and private companies and governments on corporate investments and has lead teams in the structuring and executing project/structured financings and business development transactions, performing rigorous business analysis and evaluation, due diligence, developing complex capital / project financial models, performing investment memorandums, drafting economic valuations reports . He worked with the Abu Dhabi National Oil company as Corporate Planning Analyst where he has handled operational business plans for the Largest Onshore field in UAE with production capacity over 600 Mbbl / day. Desmond have advised on key upstream projects in excess on USD 1 billion value. Prior to joining ADNOC, he was worked as a petroleum Engineer with Chevron / TECON Oilfield Services where he worked on several projects with the project team. He then proceeded to Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen where he studied project management with a specialization in Oil and gas management, fiscal policy and petroleum economics. He is an upstream petroleum management professional with deep experiences in Economic Modelling for petroleum Projects, Corporate Planning , Petroleum Fiscal Systems & Modelling, Corporate performance Management. In 2011, He was the winner of the Annual Balmoral Award for project management endorsed by Shell/ Total on improved decision making in upstream petroleum projects in Nigeria for the Best project Management proposal focused on Nigerian Energy Development Project In 2015, He was nominated by the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources as a Visiting Research Fellow with the Organization of petroleum Exporting country (OPEC) to the Energy Services Department to carry out analysis of fiscal taxation changes on Gasoline and diesel consumption in the EU. He is a graduate of Aberdeen Business School, Scotland and University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. In Nigeria, He has worked as Corporate business advisor with LADOL Deep offshore where he has been instrumental to delivery capital project over USD 80 million for the development of sustainable economic zones, ranging from sustainable industrial projects to IPP projects and other major Capital projects. Desmond Agboifo has an MSc graduate from the Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen majoring in Oil and Gas Project Management. He is also a member of project Management Institute (PMI) and the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE).