Ladi Sanni joins Renaissance Africa as GM, New Business Development

Ladi Sanni has been appointed General Manager, New Business Development at Renaissance Africa Energy Company,

In a statement announcing the move, Sanni described the role as going beyond conventional deal origination. His mandate centres on driving corporate growth through strategic partnerships, investment origination, commercial structuring, portfolio development and new venture creation. The focus is on unlocking greater value from Renaissance’s upstream assets by expanding into midstream and downstream opportunities.

“I am honoured by the confidence reposed in me by the Board and Executive Management of Renaissance, and I look forward to working with colleagues and partners across the energy value chain to develop commercially sound opportunities that maximise the value of Renaissance’s resource base while contributing to Nigeria’s industrial growth and energy security,” Sanni said.

Sanni brings more than two decades of experience across the energy value chain. Most recently he served as Managing Director of Powerstore West Africa Limited, where he led commercial bankability assessments and financing engagements for power plant and modular LNG projects, while also directing the structuring of an AI-powered remote energy monitoring platform being scaled across Nigeria and Ghana.

Prior to that, he was Managing Director of Starsight Energy, a private-equity-backed distributed renewable energy platform with more than 600 sites. There he held full P&L responsibility for a USD 30 million revenue business employing 157 staff, improved liquidity by 36 per cent, drove revenue collection above 90 per cent, and led investor exit-readiness processes.

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He previously served as Managing Director of Impala Energy, where he oversaw Nigerian operations for a UK-based gas-to-power IPP platform, delivered a brownfield IPP from EPC to commercial operations in eight months, and directed evaluations of 20–200 MW acquisition opportunities.

At Viathan Engineering Limited he led a 51 MW gas-to-power portfolio, executed Nigeria’s first corporate infrastructure bond of its kind (raising USD 32 million), and expanded the company’s regional footprint into Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Earlier in his career, Sanni spent more than nine years at Shell, including as Senior Gas Commercial Adviser, where he led gas supply agreement renewals, contributed to carbon emission reduction programmes, and supported major pipeline and free-trade-zone gas supply projects. He also held senior roles at Accenture Consulting and Fidelity Bank PLC.

Sanni has invited project developers, private equity investors, technology providers and potential offtakers interested in gas commercialisation, modular LNG, independent power production, energy efficiency and related areas to explore partnership opportunities with Renaissance.