Dennis Amachree

Dennis Amachree, holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, a Master’s degree from the California State University and the ASIS Certificate for Security Executives from the Wharton Business School in the United States of America.

Mr. Amachree retired from the Nigerian State Security Services as an Assistant Director in 1999 and went into Industrial Security, where he worked for Halliburton Energy Services, as Security Manager. He later moved on to Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria Limited as Country Security Manager. He was responsible for Maritime Security, Executive Protection, Loss Prevention and Security Management. In 2012 he was hired by the General Electric Company (GE) as Senior Regional Security Director for Sub-Sahara Africa. He is at present a Security Consultant and Owner of Zoomlens Security Solutions, Lagos.

Mr. Amachree was Chairman of ASIS International, Nigeria Chapter 206 and later Regional Vice President (Region 44 – West & Central Africa). Dennis is a Fellow of many professional security institutions and the current President of the Security Strategic Group (SSG). He has received many awards in the security industry including the Nigerian national honours award of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON).