Board of directors

Dr. Jaiye Oyedotun graduated from University of Lagos, Akoka with a First Class honours degree in Business Administration in 1975. He obtained a Masters degree in Business Administration from Columbia University, New York, USA in 1978 and his Doctorate degree (PhD) in 1985 with specialization in Finance and Applied Statistics.

He worked in various institutions like Kwara State College of Technology, Ilorin, University of Lagos, and University of IOWA as a lecturer. He also made a foray into the financial sector where he had a distinguished and successful career as a first class banker. He worked at various times with NAL Merchant Bank Ltd, NAL Towers Securities Ltd., and rose to the position of General Manager/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Stockbrokers Limited (a subsidiary of NAL Merchant Bank Plc).

He was a former Commissioner for Health in Osun State (1992 and 1993), and was also at various times the Managing Director/Chief Executive of First Trustees Limited (a fully-owned subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria Plc), and Marina International Bank Limited, which later merged with Access Bank Plc. He won the following awards: Elf Scholar in the University of Lagos in 1973, and BETA GAMMA SIGMA for Outstanding Performance at the Doctoral Level from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA in 1985.

Dr. Oyedotun was at different times an Executive Director in Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). He was appointed Chairman, Board of Director of Tantalizers PLC. in 2008.

Mrs. Bose Ayeni holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Language Arts from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) having graduated in 1979 and an MBA from Pan African University in 2005.

She joined Lever Brothers Nigeria Limited in 1980 as Management Trainee and left in 1991 as Product Group Manager to run Senkay Nigeria Limited. She started Tantalizers Limited in 1997 and successfully turned it from a one outlet eatery to what it is today.

She was a joint recipient of the FATE Foundation Model Entrepreneur Award 2005. She is a Fellow of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, and Managing Director/Chief Executive of Tantalizers PLC

Mr. Muyiwa Kupoluyi graduated from University of Ibadan with a B.Sc. (Honours) degree in Agric Economics in 1975. He started his professional accounting career with the firm of Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) in 1976 where he became an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ACA) in 1980. He was elected a Fellow of the Institute (FCA) in 1990. He rose to the position of Divisional Manager, Business Services at Coopers & Lybrand from where he joined Rank Xerox Nigeria Ltd in 1986 as the Finance Manager. He was on internationalization to Xerox Head Office in the UK in 1992 as expatriate Assistant Field Controller, Africa and Middle East. On his return to Xerox Nigeria in 1994, he became the Finance Director, a position he held until he resigned in 2000.

Mr. Kupoluyi was at a time, Consultant Chief Finance Officer with UTC Nigeria Plc, between 2002 and 2003. He is currently the Executive Chairman of Allied Gas Limited. He is also the Managing Consultant of Alpgam Investment Plc, a company floated by the Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (ALPGAM). He is on the Board of other companies like: Gasoil Nigeria Limited, Afrotec Industries Nigeria Limited, to mention a few. He is a Non-Executive Director of Tantalizers PLC.

Mr. Gbolahan Edward Labinjo is an experienced QSR expert. He joined Tantalizers Plc on March 3, 2014, as the Deputy Managing Director. Gbolahan has a BSc. in Finance from Southern Illinois University and an MBA, with specialization in Contract & International Management.

He started his career at Merrill Lynch in 1983 and was assigned to the Pepsi QSR acquisition team from where he joined Pizza Hut where he rose to become an Area Manager. He joined Burger King and led teams to complete market turnaround for 10 years. Gbolahan then worked at Popeye’s Chicken as an Operator, acquiring 2 restaurants and developing 9 additional restaurants as a Franchise Operator.

Gbolahan also worked for Denny's as Franchise business leader for 5 years. He joined UAC Restaurants as GM Franchise & National Operations Manager in February 2011 and was part of the turnaround of the Brand. He was the Managing Director of Special Brand, the largest Operator of Mr. Bigg's Franchise Restaurants, from June 2013 to February 2014