Taubman Goldie
MD/CEO
n Electrical Engineer from the University of Port Harcourt, Mr. Goldie started his career as an Industrial trainee at Delta Steel Company, Aladja and NNPC Refineries at Port Harcourt, Rivers State and Warri, Delta State.
He joined the Oil prospecting firm of Western Geophysical (now Western Atlas) which introduced 3-D Seismic exploration in Nigeria. Rising to the position of Senior Observer, he was in charge of running the electronic data acquisition system for party 390.Joining Allstates Trust Bank as a pioneer in the computer department, he setup the Hardware department from inception. Rising through the ranks, in the year 2000, he was elevated to the position of Head of IT and subsequently promoted to the position of General Manager. During his stay at the Bank, he was actively involved in putting Allstates as a pioneer in ICT implementation for the Banking sector.
Some of these include: On line signature verification: Solar power for the branches; Smart Card development: ATM implementation (using smart cards – a first in the world) amongst others. It is on record that all the Networks and Banking applications in the Bank from inception until recently were developed and run by the IT department. In 2001 he was made Group Head Technology and this resulted in the setting up of sister companies (GCN – a VSAT and Radio Telecoms company and NetXpress – a Cyber café chain and ISP). Mr. Goldie left the Bank for private practice as an ICT professional after more than 14 years. During this period he has attended numerous technology and management courses around the world including Harvard Business School in 2001.He is the past Centennial President of the Rotary Club of Victoria East. He is a Director at EDLOG Services and E-BOX Computers Ltd, both ICT startups and hopes to contribute his immense experience in the technology field.