Today, we celebrate our Woman Crush Wednesday Salamat Rahaman for her entrepreneurial drive in the energy sector.
Salamat is a chartered civil engineer (COREN) with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Lagos, and a certified HR practitioner (CHRP) with experience in team management, oil and gas business development and services, structural and geotechnical engineering, interior decorating, project management, public relations and entrepreneurship.
After many failed attempts at starting a business, including setting up a magazine and a stress management camp, she proceeded to cut her teeth at Nigeria LNG Ltd, where she worked from 2004 to 2013, in various capacities including as a Project Engineer with the Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Business Development Team and the Train 7+ Business Development Team in the Expansion Coordination Department, as well as in their Human Resources Division before she resigned to have another go at entrepreneurship.
Salamat is currently the Managing Director and Founder of Easygas Energy Solutions Ltd, an LPG retail company based in Lagos which she set up after leaving paid employment. She recently won the Standard Chartered Women in Tech Award in the first-ever cohort of the programme in Nigeria for the company’s initiatives in incorporating tech innovation in LPG retail.
She is on the Executive Committee of the International Women Society – a leading indigenous non-profit organisation in Nigeria, as well as a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, Nigeria LPG Association (NLPGA), Women in LPG Council, Project Management Institute, Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD UK), Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria, and WIMBIZ. Her interests include the creative arts, charity work, women empowerment, public speaking, and mentoring.
Her achievements so far have us all cheering and rooting for her greater success. The sky is just the beginning.