1. Eric Opah is the Managing Director/CEO and founder of Fortune Global Shipping & Logistics
Limited; current Chairman, Nigeria-America Chamber of Commerce, Abia State Chapter; an
Associate Member of the Institute of Directors of Nigeria (IODN); the President of Eric Opah
Foundation as well as Founder/President of Mbubo Transformation Group.
He holds a B.Sc.degree in Business Administration from the University of Calabar. He started his
career in the logistics industry with Panalpina World Transport Group, and due to his passion for
excellence, soon gained considerable industry experience in the company, before setting up his
own.
Over the years, Mr. Eric Opah has gained significant wealth of experience in the global forwarding,
shipping and logistics industry. He has also demonstrated a sublime level of entrepreneurial
ingenuity uncommon among his peers. Mr. Opah’s additional expertise in Air cargo handling
operations contributed to the establishment of China Southern Airlines in Nigeria where he
became the Director of Cargo Operations. Above all, he has helped to redefine freight forwarding
business in Nigeria by opening doors for transparency and trust as his core business values.
His unwavering passion to redefine shipping and logistics business in Nigeria led to the
incorporation of Fortune Global Shipping & Logistics Limited in 2006. Fortune Global is a foremost
Indigenous logistics company in Nigeria with the vision to become a first choice African shipping
and logistics company globally. This vision has grown steadily, earning Fortune Global a
prestigious award as the 10th
fastest growing company in Nigeria in 2013, (Nigeria 50 award) by
the Tony Elumelu Foundation in conjunction with Professor Michael Porter’s All World
Network,USA. Following this award and recognition for fast business growth and excellence, Mr.
Opah was nominated to participate in the All World Network Executive Program in Harvard
University, USA.
Fortune Global has thus grown into a multinational company well represented within and outside
the shores of Nigeria, with Fortune Global Shipping & Logistics (USA) Inc., Houston Texas and
branches in Shanghai, China, Tema, Ghana and Antwerp in Belgium adding up to the list of its
global business adventure.
His record par excellence is not limited to his entrepreneurial and business expertise alone. Mr
Opah is a philanthropist; a grassroots community developer and an engineer for youth
development and empowerment. His determination and commitment to community development
and youth empowerment led to the establishment of the ERIC OPAH FOUNDATION (focused on
empowering the younger generation through educational grants, numerous kinds support) and
the MBUBO TRANSFORMATION GROUP (which champions community development
projects),where he also sits as President of the highly respected group.
Following years of distinguished expertise and remarkable excellence in the freight forwarding
and logistics industry, Mr. Eric Opah is an outstanding fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Logistics,
and a Fellow, Nigerian Ports and Terminal Management Academy of Nigeria.

2. Mr. Opah Eric Opah is married to Mrs. Christiana Opah and they are blessed with two lovely
children.